Friedrich Janssen (Manager)

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In the dock: Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach , Ewald Löser , Eduard Houdremont , Erich Müller , Friedrich Janssen , Karl Pfirsch , Karl Eberhardt and Heinrich Korschan (from left)

Friedrich Wilhelm Janssen (born May 14, 1887 in Wesel ; † October 9, 1956 in Bonn ) was a German manager of Friedrich Krupp AG .

Life

Janssen joined Friedrich Krupp AG after completing his studies and receiving his doctorate in 1918 . In 1937 he became deputy director and was also authorized signatory and head of the office of Friedrich Krupp AG in Berlin until April 1943 . In 1941 he became a deputy member of the board.

In 1943 Janssen, who was a member of the NSDAP and a supporting member of the SS , succeeded Ewald Loeser as a full member of Friedrich Krupp AG and, as a member of the board of directors, was responsible for the business areas of trade , finance and administration . In addition, he was a member of the Russian Committee of German Business and a member of the board of the AG for the iron and steel industry and managing director of Glaser & Pflaum GmbH in Berlin. Because of his positions he was also a military economist .

For Janssen, even building cannons was “always just an engineering task”. She said: "To bring a ball to the finish line by the shortest route."

He was arrested in September 1945. Janssen was indicted with eleven other accused in an American military court in the Krupp trial , which took place in the context of the Nuremberg trials . Along with five other defendants, he was found guilty of having participated in the robbery and looting of someone else's property. All but the defendant Karl Pfirsch were convicted of participating in the forced labor program with tens of thousands of Eastern workers . The close connection between the extermination policy and the use of concentration camp prisoners in a plant near Auschwitz was also mentioned by the judges: "Millions of prisoners were rounded up in concentration camps and then driven to their deaths in factories and pits or, more quickly, in gas chambers". The court sentenced him on July 31, 1948 to ten years imprisonment .

On December 31, 1951, the US High Commissioner in the Federal Republic of Germany, John Jay McCloy, revised the sentence to the already served term, so that he was released from prison on February 4, 1952.

In 1953 he returned to Friedrich Krupp AG and, along with Berthold Beitz, was appointed general representative of the Friedrich Krupp works in Essen . In 1955 he retired . During this two-year collaboration between Beitz and Janssen, Janssen became his father's advisor, who introduced him to the individual plants of the group. He died suddenly on October 9, 1956 in Bonn .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Uwe Kessler: On the history of management at Krupp. From the beginning of the company to the dissolution of Fried. Krupp AG (1811-1943). Steiner, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-515-06486-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Inge Marßolek , René Ott, Peter Brandt: Bremen in the Third Reich - adjustment, resistance, persecution . Schünemann, 1986, ISBN 3-7961-1765-1 , p. 116.
  2. ↑ a b Dr. Friedrich Janssen . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from October 11, 1956
  3. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: "ARMOR / KRUPP: What makes you boom" (No. 42/1968)
  4. ^ Klaus-Dietmar Henke: The American occupation of Germany . In: Sources and representations on contemporary history . tape 27 . R. Oldenbourg, 1996, ISBN 3-486-56175-8 , pp. 513 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ^ Annette Weinke : The Nuremberg Trials. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-53604-2
  6. ↑ Telford Taylor: "The Krupp Trial: Fact v. Fiction, ”in: Columbia Law Review 1953, pp. 197-210
  7. ^ The Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, (IMT) Nuremberg, November 14, 1945 - October 1, 1946.
  8. ↑ Karsten Rudolph: Economic Diplomacy in the Cold War: The Ostpolitik of West German Big Industry 1945-1991 . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-593-37494-3 , pp. 244, 248 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  9. ↑ Desislava Dimitrova: "Alfried Krupp and Berthold Beitz: against the background of the image of the honorable businessman", diploma thesis Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2009 (PDF; 2.2 MB)
  10. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: "INDUSTRIE / BEITZ: Power of attorney for five billion" (No. 22/1959)
personal data
SURNAME Janssen, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German board member of Friedrich Krupp AG
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1956
Place of death Bonn