Ernst Röchling

Ernst Röchling (born March 28, 1888 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † January 24, 1964 in Düsseldorf ) was a German industrialist.

Hermann Röchling's nephew joined the family company Röchling'sche Eisen- und Stahlwerke GmbH in Völklingen (Saar) in 1930 . Since he hid one of the conspirators in his house after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he fell into the clutches of the Nazi justice system and was sentenced to five years in prison in Brandenburg.

In 1946 he was imprisoned in Nuremberg by the US occupation forces . In 1949 he was indicted under Control Council Act No. 10 in the Rastatt trials along with other leaders of the Röchling Group. In the appeal proceedings before the Tribunal supérieur he was sentenced to five years imprisonment and confiscation of property. In addition to the economic pillage of the occupied countries, he was found guilty of at least tolerating the mistreatment of foreign forced laborers in the company. For health reasons, he and Hermann Röchling were released early in 1951.

In 1949 he married the widow of his late cousin Karl-Theodor (Hermann Röchling's son). After his release from prison on August 18, 1951, he became managing director of Röchling-Werke. On November 14, 1956, he and Baron von Gemmingen-Hornberg achieved a basic agreement with the French government to abolish the sequester administration and return the hut to the family. France received three billion francs (around 36 million DM ) for the production facilities left in the factory. In 1961 he put the Mittel- und Feineisenstraße in Nauweiler-Gewann (which was designed under General Director Georges Thedrel (* 1888)) into operation.

In 1963 he founded the Ernst Röchling Foundation (scientific research at Saarland University to promote Franco-German understanding). From 1959 to 1960 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stages in the development of the Völklingen iron and steel works from the beginning to the present: January 24, 1964. ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: saarstahl.de  
2. ^ Died: Ernst Röchling. In: Der Spiegel. 6/1964.
3. ^ Rheinmetall: Shots against wonder weapon. In: Der Spiegel. 11/1966.
4. ^ Françoise Berger, Hervé Joly: "Case 13": The Rastatt Röchling procedure . In: NMT - The Nuremberg Military Tribunals between History, Justice and Righteousness . Ed .: Priemel and Stiller, Hamburger Edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-86854-577-7 , p. 487 f.
5. ↑ The Röchling brothers. to: voelklingen-im-wandel.de .

Web links

• Ernst Röchling in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)