Ewald Loeser
Ewald Oskar Ludwig Loeser (born April 11, 1888 in Storkow (Mark) ; † December 23, 1970 ) was a German lawyer, ministerial official, board member of Friedrich Krupp AG and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime.
Life
Loeser studied law and received his doctorate in 1911 at the University of Göttingen with a topic on the constitution of the German Empire of April 16, 1871.
From 1917 to 1919 Loeser was a consultant in the War Food Office or Reich Food Ministry . This was followed by the position of managing director of the Reich grain agency until 1920 . From 1920 to 1925 he held a leading commercial position, from 1925 he was an alderman at the German and Prussian City Council . In 1929 Loeseer became a consultant in the Reich Ministry of the Interior in the constitution and administration subdivision. In 1930 the administrative lawyer published the “Concise Dictionary of Administrative Practice ” as co-author .
In 1930 Loeser moved to the city of Leipzig , where he was mayor and city treasurer during Carl Goerdeler’s tenure as mayor. On October 1, 1934, on Goerdeler's recommendation, he joined the board of directors of Friedrich Krupp AG , where he was responsible for administration and finance as director. In addition, he held supervisory board mandates in various companies, for example at Dresdner Bank from 1939 . In March 1943 Loeser resigned from Krupp, but stayed with the company until the end of the year and retained several supervisory board mandates in Krupp subsidiaries. In 1944 he became a Reich trustee for the branches of the Dutch Philips radio, which was placed under compulsory administration in Germany .
In 1943 Goerdeler initiated him into the overturning plans and was able to win him over as finance minister in a new Reich government. After the failed assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , Loeser was arrested in August. On October 20, 1944, the hearing before the People's Court took place under its President Roland Freisler . His trial was separated from that of the other defendants ( Julius Leber , Adolf Reichwein , Hermann Maaß and Gustav Dahrendorf ) and ended on January 17, 1945 because of a feigned memory weakness with the admission to the Wittenau sanatorium , where Loeser experienced the end of the war.
In 1947, Ewald Loeser was charged as a former member of the board of directors in the Krupp trial , the tenth follow-up to the Nuremberg trials , and sentenced on July 31, 1948 to seven years in prison. His defense attorney was Kurt Behling .
literature
- Uwe Kessler: On the history of management at Krupp. From the beginning of the company to the dissolution of Fried. Krupp AG (1811-1943) . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-515-06486-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Ewald Loeser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center
- Looser, Ewald. Life dates. In: Federal Archives : Files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dissertation from 1911
- ↑ Glasnost Archive
- ↑ Records of the United States Nuernberg War Crimes Trials United States of America v. Alfried Krupp et al. (Case V) August 16, 1947-July 31, 1948 p. 5 (PDF; 813 kB)
- ↑ MAZAL LIBRARY: NUERNBERG MILITARY TRIBUNAL Volume IX Page 39 ( Memento from January 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Loeser, Ewald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Storkow (Mark) |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 1970 |