Ernst von Schoen

Hans Ludwig Ernst von Schoen , from 1927 Schoen von Wildenegg , (born August 22, 1877 in Lübeck , † 1954) was a German banker .

The doctor of law was a member of the board of the Allgemeine Deutsche Credit-Anstalt (ADCA), Austrian consul general in Leipzig , chairman of the supervisory board of Hugo-Schneider-Aktiengesellschaft (HASAG), chairman of the supervisory board of Mansfeld AG, founded in 1921, and chairman of the supervisory board of the three Leipzig insurance companies. Both HASAG and Mansfeld AG deployed several thousand forced laborers during the Second World War , including Jewish concentration camp prisoners. Schoen was also a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank .

Because of his acquaintance with the Leipzig entrepreneur Walter Cramer , he was arrested in connection with the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , but acquitted in the trial before the People's Court on November 11, 1944.

After the Second World War he first settled in Timmendorfer Strand and later in Frankfurt am Main . In 1950 he was appointed trustee of the ADCA's assets in the Federal Republic by the Bank of German States and continued this activity until his death.

literature

Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der aristocratic houses B, 34th year (1942), p. 483
Felicja Karay: "We lived between grenades and poems". The women's camp of the armaments factory HASAG in the Third Reich . Cologne et al. 2001, p. 19.
Robert Volz : Reich manual of the German society, the manual of the personalities in words and pictures . Volume 2 (L – Z), Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1688 f.

Web links

Newspaper report for the 75th birthday

Individual evidence

^ Lothar Gall , Gerald D. Feldman , Harold James , Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich , Hans E. Büschgen : The Deutsche Bank: 1870-1995 . CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-38945-7 , p. 434.
↑ Beatrix Heintze (ed.): Walter Cramer (1886–1944). A Leipzig entrepreneur in the resistance. Documentation . Deutscher Instituts-Verlag, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-602-14350-3 , p. 169.
↑ Beatrix Heintze (ed.): Walter Cramer - the last weeks. Prison letters and notes to his family after July 20, 1944. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-86583-758-5 , p. 227.
↑ Dieter Herrmann: Leadership behavior and actions of Reich German entrepreneurs / managers and their involvement in the Nazi terror in the General Government of the Occupied Polish Territories (GG) 1939 to 1945 . Dissertation University of Hamburg 2012, p. 123 online (PDF, 40.8 MB)

personal data
SURNAME	Schoen, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schoen von Wildenegg, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German banker
DATE OF BIRTH	August 22, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	1954

[1] Lothar Gall , Gerald D. Feldman , Harold James , Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich , Hans E. Büschgen : The Deutsche Bank: 1870-1995 . CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-38945-7 , p. 434.

[2] Beatrix Heintze (ed.): Walter Cramer (1886–1944). A Leipzig entrepreneur in the resistance. Documentation . Deutscher Instituts-Verlag, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-602-14350-3 , p. 169.

[3] Beatrix Heintze (ed.): Walter Cramer - the last weeks. Prison letters and notes to his family after July 20, 1944. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-86583-758-5 , p. 227.

[4] Dieter Herrmann: Leadership behavior and actions of Reich German entrepreneurs / managers and their involvement in the Nazi terror in the General Government of the Occupied Polish Territories (GG) 1939 to 1945 . Dissertation University of Hamburg 2012, p. 123 online (PDF, 40.8 MB)