Erich Kronauer

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Erich Kronauer (born October 26, 1930 in Sinsheim ) is a German manager and benefactor who lives in Schweinfurt .

Life

Kronauer attended high school, where he met his future wife Erna, who attended the same class. Kronauer, according to Ernst Nolte , received “an emphatically national upbringing”. After graduating from high school, he first attended the interpreting schools in Heidelberg and Cologne (English, French and Spanish). He then studied economics at the University of Cologne and attended seminars at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne (Switzerland) and at the University of Illinois (USA).

In 1967, at the age of 37, Kronauer became a member of the board of directors of the automotive supplier Fichtel & Sachs AG (drive technology division). He worked there for many years and left the board on June 30, 1992. Kronauer was also chairman of the supervisory board of Zweirad Union Grundbesitz AG, the Nuremberg Hercules-Werke and the Hamburg-based Sachs-Dolmar GmbH, as well as a board member of the Fella-Werke in Feucht , Sachs-Huret in Nanterre , Fichtel & Sachs in New York and Maillard SA Kronauer was also a member of the executive committee of the Association of the Bicycle and Motorcycle Industry eV (VMF) as well as the economic advisory board of the Cologne trade fair and exhibition company. He was deputy chairman of the IHK foreign trade committee.

In 1998 the Kronauer couple donated an oil painting by the painter Fritz Griebel to the Schweinfurt Municipal Collections .

From 1995 Kronauer entered into regular correspondence with the historian Ernst Nolte. A close friendship with him emerged from a meeting in Nuremberg in 1999, which resulted in the establishment of the Erich-und-Erna-Kronauer-Stiftung . Nolte quoted Kronauer's initial letter to him from July 21, 1999: “For some time now I have been thinking about setting up a foundation for prospective historians”, the purpose of which should be to “destroy the German To counteract historical awareness ”.

He was a co-signer of the appeal “8. May 1945 - against forgetting ”by the new right Institute for State Policy (IfS), which appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Nolte's speech on May 14, 2011, can be viewed online
  2. ↑ Fichtel & Sachs (ed.): Annual financial statements of Fichtel & Sachs AG 1992 . Schweinfurt 1992, p. 9.
  3. ^ Announcements in the commercial register dated February 23, 1993.
  4. ↑ Commercial register announcements of March 2, 1988.
  5. ↑ Personal details . In: Handelsblatt , No. 205, October 24, 1990, p. 20.
  6. ↑ Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . 33rd edition, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1994, ISBN 3-7950-2015-8 , p. 762.
  7. ↑ “Composition with Guitar” . In: Main-Post , June 18, 1998.
  8. ^ Speech by Erich Kronauer from May 14, 2011 available online
  9. ↑ Ernst Nolte's speech on May 14, 2011, can be viewed online
  10. ↑ Friedrich Klein: Doubtful Prize (carrier). Jörg Friedrich . In: grandstand. Journal for Understanding of Judaism , 49th vol., H. 154 (2010), pp. 50–54.
personal data
SURNAME Kronauer, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager and founder
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Sinsheim