Fritz Winterhoff

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Fritz Winterhoff (born November 9, 1897 in Haspe ; † September 25, 1946 in Bad Nauheim ) was the operator of the "Thyssen tube works" in Mülheim and general director of Deutsche Röhrenwerke AG.

Life

In the twenties Winterhoff was an employee of the Thyssen machine works in Mülheim and the Thyssen steel and rolling mills, in 1938 he headed the hot and cold rolling mill in Dinslaken and, from January 1939, the Thyssen pipe mill. In 1944 he became general director of Deutsche Röhrenwerke (DRW) AG and was responsible for all of the operating company's German tube factories. Winterhoff was a member of the NSDAP , but held no party office. In May 1945 Winterhoff was arrested by the American military authorities and placed in an internment camp.

Abuse of Forced Laborers

As early as November 1941, Winterhoff advocated the expansion of the "Russian deployment" - the deployment of Soviet prisoners of war for his works; In the summer of 1942, the Zehntweglager in Duisburg, the largest labor camp for foreign workers in Duisburg, was set up in his department . Five Soviet prisoners of war were hanged there in September 1944 . Although the supervisor responsible for this was dismissed by Winterhoff in September of the same year, Winterhoff had previously given the camp management a free hand. Winterhoff was interned by the Allies because of these executions and other abuse by the camp administration; before a possible trial, Winterhoff died in November 1946 while imprisoned in a camp hospital.

literature

  • Michael Alfred Kanther: Forced Labor in Duisburg, 1940–45. Duisburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-87463-365-9 .
  • Manfred Rasch: "The first hot wide strip mill in Europe, built by the Bandeisenwalzwerke AG in Dinslaken." (Contains a short biography of Fritz Winterhoff.) In: Ferrum , Heft 79, 2007. ( PDF file )
  • Wilhelm Treue and Wilhelm Uebbing: The fires never go out: August Thyssen-Hütte 1926–1966. Düsseldorf, Vienna 1969, without ISBN.
  • Thomas Urban: Forced labor at Thyssen: "Steel Association" and "Baron Group" in World War II. Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-76629-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Urban: Forced Labor at Thyssen: "Steel Association" and "Baron Group" in World War II . Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-76629-8 , pp. 29 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Urban: Forced Labor at Thyssen: "Steel Association" and "Baron Group" in World War II . Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-76629-8 , pp. 166 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Urban: Forced Labor at Thyssen: "Steel Association" and "Baron Group" in World War II . Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-76629-8 , pp. 30 .
  4. ↑ Thomas Urban: Forced Labor at Thyssen: "Steel Association" and "Baron Group" in World War II . Paderborn 2014, p. 49 .
  5. ↑ Thomas Urban: Forced Labor at Thyssen: "Steel Association" and "Baron Group" in World War II . Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-76629-8 , pp. 133 .
  6. ↑ Thomas Urban: Forced Labor at Thyssen: "Steel Association" and "Baron Group" in World War II . Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-76629-8 , pp. 168 .
personal data
SURNAME Winterhoff, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Operations manager and general director of Deutsche Röhrenwerke AG
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Hasp
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1946
Place of death Bad Nauheim