Ernst Telschow

Ernst Telschow (born October 31, 1889 in Berlin , † April 22, 1988 in Göttingen ) was a German chemist and general secretary of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and later the Max Planck Society .

Life

Telschow was one of Otto Hahn's first two doctoral students in 1912 . After studying chemistry and doing his doctorate , he was an assistant at the Chemical Institute at Berlin's Friedrich Wilhelm University.

In October 1913 Telschow registered as a one-year volunteer with the 3rd Guards Field Artillery Regiment in Berlin, with whom he moved to the Western Front at the beginning of the First World War . Telschow became a lieutenant and worked from 1917 to December 1918 in the War Ministry as a liaison officer to industry under Fritz Haber .

After the end of the war Telschow took over the management of the pastry shop in Berlin operated by his father Carl Telschow (1831-1912). He expanded the branch network and made it one of Berlin's major large-scale bakeries. One of the most famous branches was the house at Potsdamer Strasse 141, which was remodeled in 1928 by the brothers Wassili and Hans Luckhardt with a modern facade, right next to the Pschorrhaus on Potsdamer Platz . Telschow learned to think and act commercially and administratively.

At the beginning of March 1931 Telschow became an administrative assistant at the general administration of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP (membership number 2,636,239), became second managing director on October 18, 1933, first managing director in 1935 and director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society on January 10, 1936.

On July 15, 1937, he replaced Friedrich Glum, who had a German national focus, as General Secretary. Telschow built up targeted networks and incorporated important persons of the Third Reich into the Kaiser Wilhelm Society through senatorial, presidential and vice-presidential positions. Telschow achieved a budget increase of 20% per year. The strong man in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture, State Secretary Herbert Backe , became a senator in 1937 and first vice-president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in 1941.

During the Second World War, Telschow held the functions of defense officer and Reich defense officer at the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. After the Second World War, Telschow moved the general administration from Berlin to Göttingen and undertook the rebuilding and cohesion of the company, renamed after Max Planck . From February 26, 1948 to May 18, 1960, as a managing member of the Board of Directors, he was also General Director of the General Administration of the Max Planck Society (since 1951 together with Otto Benecke ). From 1960 to 1962 he continued to have considerable influence as personal advisor to the new President Adolf Butenandt .

In recognition of his services, he was elected Honorary Senator of the Max Planck Society in 1967.

His granddaughter Christa Stewens was Bavarian Minister of Social Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister until the end of Günther Beckstein's reign.

Awards

• 1954: Large Federal Cross of Merit
• 1969: Medal of Honor of the City of Göttingen

Publications

• Ernst Telschow (publisher and author): Yearbook 1939 of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science, (Druck Offizin Haag, Drugulin, Leipzig) 1939, 221 pp.
• Ernst Telschow (publisher and author): Yearbook 1940 of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science, Druck Offizin Haag, Drugulin, Leipzig 1940, 273 pp.
• Ernst Telschow (publisher and author): Yearbook 1941 of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science, Druck Offizin Haag, Drugulin, Leipzig 1941, 295 pp.
• Ernst Telschow (publisher and author): Yearbook 1942 of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science, Druck Offizin Haag, Drugulin, Leipzig 1942.

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
• Rüdiger Hachtmann : Science Management in the "Third Reich". History of the general administration of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society . 2 volumes, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2007.
• Christoph Kreutzmüller: Real estate transfers and Jewish foundations 1933 - 1945, result 27 research program "History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism"
• Adolf Butenandt : Ernst Telschow: October 31, 1889 - April 22, 1988 , in: Reports and communications of the Max Planck Society, issue 4/88 (title of the issue: annual report 1987 and annual accounts 1986: obituaries ), ISSN  0341- 7778
• Boris Rajewsky , Georg Schreiber (Hrsg.): From the German research of the last decades: Dr. Dedicated to Ernst Telschow on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Thieme-Verlag, Stuttgart 1956.
• Alexandra Przyrembel : Friedrich Glum and Ernst Telschow: The General Secretaries of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society: Fields of action and options for action by the "administrators" of knowledge during National Socialism , Series: Results - Preprints from the research program "History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism" , Berlin 2004, online PDF

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Telschow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Online (PDF; 126 kB) Susanne Heim : Research for autarky . The contribution of scientist to Nazi rule in Germany. Results. Preprints from the research program “History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism” # 4. MPG , Berlin 2001 (in English; Telschow passim, 14 mentions)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rüdiger Hachtmann: A success story? Highlights on the history of the general administration of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the "Third Reich" , results 19, p. 31 in the research program "History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism", online, PDF
2. ↑ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 618 f.