Friedrich Minoux

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Friedrich Minoux (born March 21, 1877 in Mutterstadt ; † October 16, 1945 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) was a German businessman , industrial manager and entrepreneur .

Life

Friedrich Minoux came in 1877 as the son of the master tailor Michael Minoux and his wife Margaretha Minoux born. Reffert in Mutterstadt in the Palatinate to the world. He attended a humanistic high school . When Minoux was 15 years old, his father died. A year later he left the grammar school with the secondary school leaving certificate and entered the Baden railway administration, in 1894 he switched to the Prussian railway administration.

From 1900 he worked in the city administration of Essen , where he started as an office assistant and rose to become an accountant. In 1910 he finally became commercial director of the city's gas and water works. In this position at the latest, his official tasks touched the entrepreneurial interests of Hugo Stinnes .

As a result of these contacts, Minoux was appointed to the administration of the Stinnes Group in 1912 , where he became Hugo Stinnes' right-hand man. In the end he earned the enormous sum of 350,000 marks per year. In 1919 he became a member of the board of the United Berlin Coal Trader AG (VBK) belonging to the Stinnes Group . In 1921 he acquired the prestigious Villa Marlier on a property on the banks of the Wannsee as his Berlin residence .

In 1923 he left the Stinnes Group in order to build up his own corporate empire. The main source of income was the coal wholesaler Friedrich Minoux, Gesellschaft für Handel und Industrie . In 1924 he was one of the founders of the Berliner Städtische Elektrizitätswerke AG (Bewag) company . In 1926 he acquired half of the shares in German-Romanian Petroleum AG (Derupag) .

Minoux was hostile to the Weimar Republic and maintained contacts with right-wing military organizations and politicians. In the event that the forces directed against the Weimar state were to take over the government, he was considered a candidate for ministerial offices and even Hugo Stinnes' preferred candidate for the office of Chancellor . Fritz Thyssen wrote in his memoir I paid Hitler that Minoux financed the NSDAP as early as 1923 . In 1931 he became a member of the pro-fascist society for the study of fascism .

In 1933 he was appointed to the Academy for German Law . On June 30, 1934, Minoux witnessed the events of the so-called Röhm Putsch when he witnessed the occupation of the office by an SS command during a meeting with the Oberregierungsrat Herbert von Bose in the office of the Deputy Chancellor . While Bose was being shot, Minoux was finally allowed to leave the building.

In 1938, Minoux bought the Offenheimer pulp and paper mill for less than 1 million Reichsmarks for a real value of 12 million Reichsmarks, the Jewish owner of which was forced to sell by the Nazis.

In 1938, an audit found that Minoux had been abusing his supervisory board mandates at various municipal business operations in the city of Berlin (e.g. Bewag) for fraudulent sham transactions for his financial benefit for around ten years. After lengthy investigations, he was arrested in May 1940 and sentenced on August 15, 1941 to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 600,000 Reichsmarks. The large villa on the Wannsee was sold to the Nordhav Foundation belonging to the SS and went down in history as the location of the Wannsee Conference held there in 1942 .

Minoux was released from prison on April 25, 1945 and returned to Berlin after the end of the war, where he died in the autumn of the same year.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Minoux  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vera Hierholzer: Friedrich Minoux. Tabular curriculum vitae in the LeMO ( DHM and HdG )
  2. ↑ George WF Hallgarten : Hitler, Reichswehr and Industry. Frankfurt am Main 1955, p. 39.
personal data
SURNAME Minoux, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial manager and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Mother city
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1945
Place of death Berlin-Lichterfelde