Ernst Wolf Mommsen

Ernst Wolf Mommsen (born May 12, 1910 in Charlottenburg ; † January 23, 1979 in Düsseldorf ) was a German lawyer , government official and manager in the coal and steel industry .

Life

Ernst Wolf Mommsen is a son of the physician Ernst Mommsen, a grandson of Theodor Mommsen and a brother of Theodor Ernst Mommsen .

Mommsen studied law and economics from 1930 to 1935 . In 1937 Mommsen joined the NSDAP . From 1938 to 1939 he worked as a lawyer . Then he was employed by the Reichsgruppe Industrie . In the Reich Ministry for Armaments and Ammunition under Albert Speer , he was the main department head responsible for the war economy and later for ammunition procurement, and at that time came into contact with the Krupp Group at the Bertha factory .

Mommsen was imprisoned by the Allies from 1945 to 1946 after the Second World War .

Mommsen was appointed managing director at Klöckner in 1946 . From 1948 to 1953 he was managing director of the rolled steel association; from 1953 to 1954 deputy chairman of Klöckner AG . From 1954 to 1965 he was a member of the board of the Rheinische Röhrenwerke AG . From 1965 to 1970 he was CEO of Thyssen Röhrenwerke AG . From 1970 to 1972 he was State Secretary for Technology and Procurement in the Federal Ministry of Defense under Minister Helmut Schmidt . In 1972 he was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Finance . From 1973 to 1975 he was CEO of Friedrich Krupp AG . From 1959 to 1978 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

From his first marriage to Ruth Seegert he had a daughter and he adopted the son of his second wife Eva Connor. After the war he wrote a number of business books.

Ernst Wolf Mommsen died in 1979 at the age of 68. His grave is in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Berlin-Westend .

Honors

1972: Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
1975: Saarland Order of Merit

Fonts

Elite education in the economy 1955.
The school in industrial society 1958.
Corporate concentration and state supervision 1960.
In-house training in corporate management 1962.
Rationalization as a political and economic task to create large economic areas in 1966.
The future of capitalism 1967.

literature

Peter Köpf : The Mommsens. From 1848 until today. The story of a family is the story of the Germans. Europa Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-203-79147-1 .
In the middle of life . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1965, p. 94 ( Online - Nov. 3, 1965 ).
Gertrud Milkereit: Mommsen, Ernst Wolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 28 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Ernst Wolf Mommsen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Werner Abelshauser : Armaments smiths of the nation? The Krupp concern in the Third Reich and in the post-war period 1933 to 1951. In: Lothar Gall (Hrsg.): Krupp in the 20th century. The history of the company from the First World War to the establishment of the foundation. Siedler, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-88680-742-8 , p. 397.
^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 478.
^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 41 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken September 5, 1975, p. 994 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; accessed on May 25, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Mommsen, Ernst Wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, government official and manager in the coal and steel industry
DATE OF BIRTH	May 12, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin-Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH	January 23, 1979
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Werner Abelshauser : Armaments smiths of the nation? The Krupp concern in the Third Reich and in the post-war period 1933 to 1951. In: Lothar Gall (Hrsg.): Krupp in the 20th century. The history of the company from the First World War to the establishment of the foundation. Siedler, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-88680-742-8 , p. 397.

[2] Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 478.

[svo-3] Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 41 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken September 5, 1975, p. 994 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; accessed on May 25, 2017]).