Ewald Hecker (entrepreneur)

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Ewald Otto E. Hecker (born October 14, 1879 in Berlin ; † February 12, 1954 in Schäftlarn , district of Munich) was chairman of the supervisory board of Ilseder Hütte , a supporter of the NSDAP and later SS brigade leader .

Life

Ewald Hecker was born the son of a secret councilor . Before 1914 he worked in the colonial service in Samoa and as a councilor in the colonial administration in Berlin. During the First World War he worked as an officer in a diplomatic mission in East Asia. From 1914 to 1916 he was a delegate of the German Red Cross in New York . In 1918/19 he headed the Haidar Pascha Freikorps . He worked for Ilseder Hütte from 1919 , was the company's administrative director from 1921 and became a member of the board in 1923 . In 1929 he was appointed to the board of directors (later chairman of the board). Ewald Hecker joined the DVP and had been a member of the party's central executive committee since 1920. From 1921 to 1924 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament .

From 1931, Ewald Hecker was President of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry, as well as the representative and operations manager of the Friedrich der Große Herne trade union and a member of the supervisory board of around ten companies, including Commerz- und Privatbank, Deutsche Eisenhandels AG and Vereinigte Industrie-Unternehmerungen AG . In addition, he was appointed judge of the court of honor of the Reich Chamber of Commerce, member of the government council and military economics leader.

After Heckler had already maintained contacts with the NSDAP in 1932 , he became a party member in 1933. Together with Kurt Freiherr von Schröder , he was on the board of the “Standard Elektrizitätsgesellschaft” (SEG), a subsidiary of ITT, Inc. and AEG .

In 1936 he became a member of the appointed council of the city of Hanover . From 1936 to 1942 he was President of the Lower Saxony Chamber of Commerce and, after its dissolution, President of the South Hanover-Braunschweig Gauwirtschaftskammer.

On January 7, 1938, Hecker was appointed to a court of honor commissioned by Himmler to indict Karl Lindemann . The charges were dropped and Lindemann was declared innocent. On April 1, 1935, the office of the head of the economy was combined with the office of the German Industry and Trade Congress to form the Reich Chamber of Commerce. The President of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Ewald Hecker, took over the management. This finally eliminated the self-government aimed at by the industry.

Ewald Hecker was part of the influential Keppler circle and was one of the people who participated in it from the start. Ewald Hecker was on the list of industrialists. With 38 invitations and four rejections to invitations, Hecker was one of the five people who turned down the fewest invitations. According to Karl Lindemann's testimony under oath, Hecker was next to von Schröder the strongest pillar of the Keppler circle.

Ewald Hecker was one of the signatories of the industrialist submission to Paul von Hindenburg . The recommendation to Hindenburg of November 19, 1932 was signed by 19 personalities, eight of whom were members of the Keppler circle. Although the purpose of the circle to bring Hitler to power was fulfilled on January 30, 1933, the circle still existed. The entrepreneurs then received the entrepreneurial freedoms they had hoped for after signing the industrialists' application. The recommendation to Hindenburg contained the request to appoint Hitler as Reich Chancellor, under the guise of striving to continue the presidential cabinet. Of course, this was not Hitler's actual intention, but the dictatorial assumption of power.

On May 1, 1933 , Hecker joined the NSDAP ( member No. 2,955,650), and from September 13, 1936 he was also a member of the SS (member No. 276,903). In 1939 he was promoted to SS-Oberführer at the staff of the Reichsführer SS, and later to SS-Brigadführer .

From April 1945 to August 1946 he was interned in the Sennelager . He then returned to Hanover, where he lived until 1948.

literature

  • Reinhard Vogelsang: The Himmler Circle of Friends. Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1972.
  • Albert Lefèvre: 100 years of Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry. [1866–1966.] Order and fulfillment , Wiesbaden: Verlag für Wirtschaftspublizistik Bartels, 1966, pp. 127–154
  • Gerd Schäfer u. a .: Lectures 1933 and after. On the occasion of the special exhibition "Hanover 1933 - A Big City Becomes National Socialist" , Hanover: Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer, 1983, p. 146
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : HECKER, Ewald. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 157; online through google books
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Hecker, Ewald. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 157.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 144.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: HECKER ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ Eberhard Koebel-Tusk: AEG Energy - Profit - Crime . Berlin 1958, p. 127 f.
personal data
SURNAME Hecker, Ewald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hecker, Ewald Otto E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Entrepreneur and later SS brigade leader
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1954
Place of death Schäftlarn , district of Munich