Friedrich von Bülow (Manager)
Friedrich von Bülow (born November 29, 1889 in Cologne ; † January 17, 1984 ibid) was a German department director at Friedrich Krupp AG who was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment as a war criminal in the Krupp trial .
Life
Bülow joined the Berlin branch of Friedrich Krupp AG on April 1, 1932, and headed the Berlin representation from October 1932 to 1936. At the same time he was personal assistant to Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach . In September 1933 he was appointed authorized signatory .
In this function he was a special salesman and agent in Brazil between 1936 and 1938. Then he headed various departments in the Krupp cast steel factory in Essen . In 1939, von Bülow was the "military chief defense officer" and head of security at the cast steel factory; In 1943 he was "Chief Political Defense Officer".
In 1944 von Bülow acted as a department director and Krupp's representative in the press and propaganda . He also acted as Krupp's contact to Nazi representatives, especially the Gestapo and the SS .
His functions included the management of the Krupp Group's labor camps, in which concentration camp inmates and prisoners of war had to do forced labor . He was jointly responsible for the abuse and systematic malnutrition in the camps. Together with Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach and eleven other senior employees, he was indicted in the Nuremberg Krupp Trial and sentenced to 12 years in prison in July 1948 for crimes in connection with prisoner-of-war and slave labor. Only Alfried Krupp himself and his colleague Erich Müller received a comparably high prison sentence. His defense attorney was Wolfgang Pohle . On January 31, 1951, von Bülow was pardoned and released from prison in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .
According to the judgment of the court, only von Bülow and Ewald Loeser , in contrast to the other accused Krupp managers, were not members of the NSDAP .
literature
- Ernst Klee , Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich - Who was what before and after 1945 , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003
Web links
- The Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, Selected and prepared by The United Nations War Crimes Commission, Volume X, London, HMSO. 1948. (English). THE KRUPP TRIAL. TRIAL OF ALFRIED FELIX ALWYN KRUPP VON BOHLEN AND HALBACH AND ELEVEN OTHERS. UNITED STATES MILITARY TRIBUNAL, NUREMBERG, 17TH NOVEMBER, 1947-30TH JUNE, 1948 ( PDF )
Individual evidence
- ^ Judgment in Law Reports, p. 85
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bülow, Friedrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German department director at Krupp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th January 1984 |
| Place of death | Cologne |