Emil Heinrich Meyer

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Emil Heinrich Meyer (born May 6, 1886 in Wiesbaden ; † May 9, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German manager and honorary professor at the Berlin School of Management .

Life

Meyer had a doctorate in law and a doctorate in economics . In 1924 he became in-house counsel in the cooperative department of Dresdner Bank . He had been a member of the Board of Management of Dresdner Bank since 1934. Meyer, a cousin of Wilhelm Keppler , became a member of the Keppler Circle in 1932, later the Friends of the Reichsführer SS .

In 1933 Meyer joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2,590,797) and became an SS-Standartenführer (SS membership number 115,983). In 1935 he became an honorary professor for cooperatives at the Berlin Business School and a member of the National Socialist Academy for German Law .

He was one of the directors of AEG as well as Mix & Genest and Standard Elektrik Lorenz , both subsidiaries of the American ITT . These companies made payments to Heinrich Himmler during the Second World War to protect ITT's investments in the Bremen aircraft manufacturer Focke-Wulf .

According to Jan Erik Schulte , Meyer placed “particular importance on keeping the Osti accounts in his house ” in 1943 .

Meyer committed suicide in Berlin on May 9, 1945.

literature

  • Johannes Bähr: The Dresdner Bank in the Third Reich , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2006 (with the assistance of Ralf Ahrens, Michael C. Schneider, Harald Wixforth, Dieter Ziegler; especially 1st volume, p. 92/93).
  • Ralf Ahrens, Ingo Köhler, Harald Wixforth, Dieter Ziegler: The Dresdner Bank 1945 - 1957 , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2007, p. 470.
  • The Auschwitz risk . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 2007 ( online - June 2, 2007 ).
  • Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism: A Study of Institutional and Personal History . Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-8515-6 , p. 780

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Bähr, pp. 92/93.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 407.
  3. ↑ Quotation from Jan Erik Schulte: Darsteller 4, p. 58, printed by Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Fischer Taschenbuch 2005, p. 407.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Emil Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1945
Place of death Berlin