Emil Georg von Stauß

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Emil Georg von Stauß (1929)

Emil Georg von Stauß (born October 6, 1877 in Friedrichstal , Württemberg ; † December 11, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German bank manager, director general of Deutsche Bank and a member of over 30 supervisory boards. He was known for his close ties to the NSDAP .

Career

After his banking apprenticeship, Stauß got a job at Deutsche Bank in 1898 and soon became private secretary at Georg von Siemens . At the age of 28, Stauß was instrumental in founding the European Petroleum Union ; at the constituent meeting in 1905 he was elected first director . From the following year he also did the oil business for Deutsche Bank. In 1915, at the age of 38, Stauß was appointed to the Management Board of Deutsche Bank. In this role he managed the Anatolian Railway Company during the First World War and operated the further and expansion of the Baghdad Railway . Probably in gratitude for this, Stauß was raised to the nobility in 1918 .

Stauß was the driving force behind the merger between Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft and Benz & Cie. Rheinische Gasmotorenfabrik to Daimler-Benz AG in 1926 . In the 1920s he joined the Society of Friends . In 1932, Stauß moved from the executive board to the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank. Among other things, he was chairman of the supervisory boards of Daimler-Benz AG, Lufthansa and BMW as well as a member of the supervisory boards of Rhein-Main-Donau AG and Ufa . As chairman of the supervisory board of Lufthansa (1926–1942) and BMW, he initiated the new beginning of the German aircraft industry in the post-war years of the First World War. Around 1931, Stauß was a member of the board of directors of the German high seas sports association HANSA , which was dedicated to the military sports education of German-minded youth.

From 1936 until his death, von Stauß was also a member of the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society .

Approach and distance to the NSDAP

Stauß cultivated contacts with the National Socialist Party from an early age. On October 5, 1930, Adolf Hitler was his guest. In December 1930, his friend Hjalmar Schacht met Hermann Göring over dinner in his house . On December 5, 1931, Stauß introduced Hitler to the American Ambassador Sackett and the Consul General Kliefoth at his home. In 1931 Stauß went on a boat tour on his yacht with Hitler and Hermann Göring. After the boat trip, Stauß offered to join the NSDAP, although Goering said that in the DVP he could do more for the NSDAP. A few days later he made a "larger amount" available to Goering. Stauß also worked in the economic policy department of the NSDAP . Harry Graf Kessler reports in his diary about an event in the Hotel Kaiserhof on the evening of January 30, 1933:

“I sat at a small table between him and the famous Herr v. Stauß, formerly from Deutsche Bank, who did very well with his intimate relations with Hitler. He had promised him that he would fulfill every wish that he brought to his attention. "

His relations with the NSDAP were already so well known that Deutsche Bank's Jewish customers switched to other banks.

Since 1930 he sought close cooperation between his party, the DVP, and the NSDAP. His attempt to have a party friend of the DVP elected president of the Reichstag with the help of the National Socialists failed, however. From 1930 to 1932 Stauß represented the DVP in the German Reichstag . After the National Socialist harmonization of German politics, he ran for the NSDAP in the Reichstag election on November 12, 1933. In 1934 he was elected Vice President of the National Socialist Reichstag. As such, Göring appointed him to the Prussian State Council that same year . Stauß never joined the NSDAP, but was a member of the National Socialist Academy for German Law .

His personal friend was the oil industrialist Henri Deterding , who also had close ties to the NSDAP. Admiral Alexander von Müller was his father-in-law.

Ulrich von Hassell noted in his diary on September 29, 1938:

“Breakfast with Heinrici, Popitz , Tischbein and Sybel (Landbund) in the Continental. Very depressed mood. Popitz very bitterly, said that with growing anger it would go against the upper 'class' (as Hitler calls it). Physical disgust grips every decent person, as the active Finance Minister Popitz put it, when he hears speeches such as Hitler's last mob speech in the Sports Palace . Before breakfast I saw Stauss, who was one of the first businesspeople to go to Hitler, now in great concern and disgust. "

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  1. ↑ Yacht No. 19, 1925 p. 42 online .
  2. ↑ DHH 1931 advertising brochure .
  3. ↑ Ulrike Kohl: The Presidents of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism. P. 225.
  4. ↑ Eberhard Czichon : Who helped Hitler to power? On the share of German industry in the destruction of the Weimar Republic. Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag, Cologne 1971, p. 59.
  5. ↑ Gerhard Schulz: Rise of National Socialism, Crisis and Revolution in Germany. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna 1975, p. 879.
  6. ^ Henry Ashby Turner (ed.): Hitler at close range. A confidante's notes 1929–1932. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna 1978, p. 456 ff.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Pfeiffer-Belli (Ed.): Harry Graf Kessler Diaries. Frankfurt am Main 1982, p. 746.
  8. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Second updated edition, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 598.
  9. ↑ Cinema - The big dream business . In: Der Spiegel , No. 37/1950.
  10. ^ Ulrich von Hassell : From the other Germany. From the posthumous diaries 1938–1944. Zurich 1946, p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Stauß, Emil Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and politician (DVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichstal , Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1942
Place of death Berlin