Fritz Springorum

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Fritz Springorum, 1938

Fritz Springorum (born June 6, 1886 in Ruhrort , † April 16, 1942 in Laar ) was a German industrialist and politician. He worked for more than two decades in leading positions at Hoesch-Aktiengesellschaft .

education and profession

The son of Hoesch general director Friedrich Springorum graduated from high school in Dortmund . He then studied metallurgy at the Technical University of Aachen . In 1904 he became a member of the Academic Association Montania , later the Corps Montania Aachen, whose AH Association he was in charge of from 1920 to 1933. In 1908 he completed his studies with a diploma. In the meantime, he worked as an operations assistant at Deutsch-Lux in Differdange . He then studied economics and finance at the University of Berlin. In 1910 he became Dr.-Ing. PhD. From 1911 to 1915 he was chief engineer and head of the steelworks at Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG , “Red Earth” department near Esch-sur-Alzette .

From 1915 Springorum worked at Hoesch AG in Dortmund, initially as operations manager, from 1917 as smelter, 1925 as general director , from 1932 to 1937 as chairman of the board and general director and finally from 1937 as chairman of the supervisory board .

Political activities

In the Weimar Republic , Springorum was chairman of the "Association for the Protection of Common Economic Interests in the Rhineland and Westphalia", the so-called Langnam Association because of its long name . He was also a member of the Ruhrlade Industrial Union . He was a member of the national-conservative and anti-republic German National People's Party (DNVP) . From 1924 to 1930 he was a city ​​councilor in Dortmund and also served as a councilor.

In March 1932, Springorum demanded in a letter to Tilo von Wilmowsky , Krupp, Paul Reusch , Paul Silverberg and Albert Vögler “everything to do to bring the NSDAP into practical state responsibility” in order to “turn around the all too radical tendency within the NSDAP ”Otherwise the NSDAP“ would continue to gain strength and become more radical ”. What was meant, however, was not the preservation of the constitutional and democratic achievements of the Weimar Republic, but rather large-scale industry, because it distrusted the economic and political ideas of the NSDAP, wanted to influence them in its own interest. His approval of the industrialists' submission , which Friedrich Reinhart , a banker sympathizing with the NSDAP, reported to the office of the Reich President on November 21, 1932, is doubted in recent research. In fact, Springorum did not put his signature under the entry. On the other hand, like over 300 other industrialists, he actually signed an appeal by a DNVP-affiliated “German Committee” dated November 6, 1932, entitled “With Hindenburg for the people and the Reich!” For the Papen government and for the DNVP and thus clearly against the NSDAP.

After Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor on January 30, 1933 , Springorum moved closer to the National Socialists. Three weeks later he took part in a meeting of leading industrialists with Hitler and supported the National Socialists' election campaign for the elections of March 5, 1933 with a donation of 36,000 Reichsmarks. After the DNVP dissolved itself in June 1933, Springorum was put up as a guest on the NSDAP's unified list for the next Reichstag election on November 12, 1933 and thus became a member of the National Socialist Reichstag . Springorum joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 ( membership number 4,569,841). From May 1937 until his death he was a regular member of the NSDAP parliamentary group as a member of the Reichstag . He was also a member of the Academy for German Law . Fritz Springorum was a member of the board of the German High Seas Sports Association HANSA around 1931 .

When the Nazis in April 1933 as part of its Gleichschaltung policy the chief executive Max Schlenker deposed the Langnamvereins even Springorum resigned as chairman; the Langnamverein was dissolved. However, he retained the chairmanship of the Association of German Iron Industry and was still a member of the Reichstag. As successor to Albert Vögler , Springorum took over the chairmanship of the Association of German Ironworkers (VDEh) in 1936 , which he gave up in 1939 due to illness.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Ludwig Neher: The Corps Montania zu Aachen, 1872–1957 , 1957, pp. 84, 123
  2. ↑ a b c Fritz Springorum in the database of members of the Reichstag
  3. ^ Gustav Luntowski: Hitler and the gentlemen on the Ruhr. Economic power and state power in the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 71 f.
  4. ^ Heinrich August Winkler , Geschichte des Westens, Die Zeit der Weltkriege 1914–1945, 3rd edition 2016, p. 619 - CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-59236-2
  5. ↑ Henry Ashby Turner: The Big Entrepreneurs and the Rise of Hitler . Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1985, p. 365f.
  6. ↑ http://www.mazal.org/archive/nmt/07/NMT07-T0568.htm ( Memento from January 21, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 635.
  8. ↑ DHH 1931 advertising brochure
  9. ↑ Antek Schwarz: Stahl writes history . In: steel and iron . tape 137 , no. 4 , 2017, p. 107-108 .

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personal data
SURNAME Springorum, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German managers and politicians (DNVP, NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruhrort
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1942
Place of death Laar