Friedrich Silcher (Lawyer)
Friedrich Silcher (born October 3, 1906 in Reutlingen , † September 11, 1995 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer. He was a great-great-nephew of the folk song composer Friedrich Silcher .
Career
Silcher attended high school in Reutlingen (today Friedrich-List-Gymnasium Reutlingen ) and studied law in Tübingen, Berlin and Kiel. Since 1924 he was a member of the Corps Suevia Tübingen . From 1931 he was established as a lawyer in Stuttgart. From 1933 to 1935 he was a lawyer at the Deutsche Lachtbank in Berlin, then from 1935 to 1947 a lawyer in the central administration of IG Farbenindustrie AG .
As Associate Defense Counsel in the IG Farben trial , he defended the former general counsel of IG Farben August von Knieriem . After his acquittal, Silcher took over the legal department of the Leverkusen plant and became a member of the Board of Management there in 1951 with the re-establishment of the Bayer AG paint factory until he retired in 1971 .
From 1954 on he was Vice President and from 1962 to 1967 President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Solingen .
Honors
- 1966: Honorary doctorate from the law faculty of the University of Cologne
- 1973: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Joachim Robert Rumpf: The Wollheim case against IG Farbenindustrie AG in liquidation: The first sample lawsuit by a former forced laborer in the Federal Republic of Germany - trial, politics and the press. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-60131-0 .
- Erich Stockhorst: Five thousand heads. Who had which role in the third Reich. Blick + Bild Verlag, Velbert 1967, DNB 458250953 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 129 , 875.
- ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 85, May 8, 1973.
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SURNAME | Silcher, Friedrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1906 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Reutlingen |
DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1995 |
Place of death | Hamburg |