Fritz Jessen

Fritz Jessen (born August 21, 1886 in Strasbourg , Alsace-Lorraine , † July 30, 1951 ) was a German lawyer , industrialist, banker and CFO of Siemens AG .

Life

Jessen was a son of the physician Ernst Jessen (1859-1933), the founder of the first school dental clinic in the world and the "founder of school dental care". After graduating from high school, Jessen studied law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . There he became a member of the Tübingen fraternity Derendingia in 1904 , to which his father was already a member. He then obtained a doctorate in Dr. jur.

From 1925 to 1929 he was the owner of the Norddeutsche Bank . In 1929 he became director of the Deutsche Bank and the Disconto-Gesellschaft in Hamburg. Jessen held this post until 1931. Subsequently, he was appointed deputy member of the Management Board of Siemens & Halske AG in Berlin. Since 1937 he was a full member of the executive board of Siemens AG. In the same year Fritz Jessen became a member of the Presidium of the German Group of the International Chamber of Commerce . In 1944 he was a participant in a secret meeting of leading industrialists ( Stahl-Kreis ).

On the basis of Act No. 52 on the Confiscation of German Assets , the British military government took over the Siemens operations on February 5, 1947 and appointed Fritz Jessen, a former finance director on the Siemens AG Board of Management, as a trustee . Both the British military government and the company considered it unencumbered and unaffected by a potential conflict of interests between the military government and the company. At the beginning of April 1947, the former chairman of the board, Wolf-Dietrich von Witzleben , resumed his position as chairman of the board after a strike vote by the employees had resulted in a narrow majority.

literature

• Volker Berghahn: industrial society and cultural transfer. The German-American Relationship in the 20th Century . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010.
• Christian Stadler: Corporate culture at Royal Dutch / Shell, Siemens and DaimlerChrysler . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2004.
• Dietrich Eichholtz: History of the German War Economy 1939–1945, Volume I: 1939–1941 . KG Saur, Munich 1999.
• Wilfried Feldenkirchen: Siemens, 1918–1945 . Piper, 1995.
• Volker Ralf Berghahn: Entrepreneurs and Politics in the Federal Republic . Suhrkamp, ​​1985.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Membership directory of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen. 1967, master roll no. 361.
2. ↑ Series of publications on contemporary history in Berlin. 1959. [1]