Erich Winnacker

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Erich Winnacker (born August 13, 1889 in Barmen ; † August 10, 1944 in Erlangen ) was a German ministerial official and manager in the Ruhr mining industry.

Life

Winnacker studied at the Philipps University of Marburg and was reciprocated in the Corps Guestphalia Marburg in 1908 . In the Ruhr mining he became head of the Thyssen mines. In 1925 he was appointed director of August-Thyssen-Hütte AG. He became a member of the board of the Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG (Vestag) founded in 1926 . He headed one of Vestag's four mining groups, the Hamborn mining group. He was a member of the German National People's Party , to whose right wing he was counted. In April 1932 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party and the local SA unit . His wife founded a local group of the Nazi women's association in Hamborn . In the time of National Socialism he became Oberberghauptmann (head of the Oberberghauptamt in Berlin). He was ministerial director in the Reich Ministry of Labor and a member of the administrative board of the Alpine-Montan group . In 1941 he became head of mining at the Berg- und Hüttenwerkgesellschaft Ost (BHO).

Fonts

  • Contributions to the knowledge of the British coal industry . Essen 1936.
  • The British Government's Action to Restore the Coal Industry . Dortmund 1936.

literature

  • Henry Ashby Turner : The Big Entrepreneurs and the Rise of Hitler . Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1985.

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 98 , 226
  2. On July 13, 1933, Gaultier Essen, Terboven, “belatedly” congratulated him on his appointment. Go State Archives Preuss. Kulturbesitz, I HA Rep. 77, No. 3, p. 193.