Fritz Hille

The title of this article is ambiguous. On the German teacher and politician (NSDAP) see Fritz Hille (politician) .

Fritz Hille (born September 27, 1891 in Berlin , † January 2, 1949 in Munich ) was a German manager in the automotive and aviation industries.

Career

Hille did military service in the First World War after completing a commercial apprenticeship . In 1926 he became a commercial board member at Bayerische Flugzeugwerke AG, later Messerschmitt AG . In 1930 he moved to Rostock as commercial director of the Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke . In November 1935 he joined BMW AG as a member of the board of management and at the same time became managing director of BMW Flugmotorenbau GmbH Munich . From 1939 to 1942 he was the deputy chairman of the board. After arguments with General Director Franz Josef Popp (who, according to his own account, vehemently opposed a one-sided orientation of BMW production towards war armaments), Hille became Chairman of the Board of Management at BMW in June 1942 with the support of the National Socialist authorities. During this time BMW almost exclusively used forced laborers who were housed in the Allach subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp , among other places . Due to a persistent production crisis, Hille had to resign from his position in May 1944 on the initiative of General Aircraft Master Erhard Milch from the Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM), but remained at least temporarily a member of the board. In February 1945 Wilhelm Schaaf , the technical director of the Eisenach branch , was his successor. After the war ended, Fritz Hille was arrested and placed under house arrest. In 1947 he had to answer to an Allied court for his work in the armaments industry. After his denazification , he was offered a position on the board of directors in the Siemens group in 1948 , which he turned down because of his cancer. He succumbed to cancer in early 1949.

literature

• Constanze Werner: War economy and forced labor at BMW. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2006. ISBN 3-486-57792-1

Web links

• BMW history - board members. BMW Group, October 17, 2005, archived from the original on January 18, 2013 ; Retrieved November 28, 2012 . 
• Fritz Hille. In: BMW history. BMW AG, accessed on March 24, 2018 (CV in the BMW Group Archive). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Constanze Werner : War economy and forced labor at BMW: On behalf of MTU Aero Engines and BMW Group, Munich: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2006, p. 382 ISBN 978-3-486-70977-3 . ( limited preview in Google Book search)
2. ↑ Florian Triebel: Fritz Hille - The armaments manager. (PDF) In: BMW Group Mobile Tradition: Portraits. BMW AG, February 2004, pp. 26–29 , accessed on March 24, 2018 .