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

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 129 , 875.
2. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 85, May 8, 1973.