Gerd Stieler from Heydekampf

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Gerd Stieler von Heydekampf (born January 5, 1905 in Berlin , † January 25, 1983 in Heilbronn ) was a German industrialist and manager . From 1953 to 1969 he was chairman of the board of NSU Motorenwerke and from 1969 to 1971 of Audi NSU Auto Union AG .

Life

Stieler von Heydekampf's grave in Stocksberg

Stieler von Heydekampf studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig from 1923 to 1927 and was awarded a Dr.-Ing. PhD. In the United States , he worked for several years at Babcock & Wilcox and Baldwin Locomotive Works .

Back in Germany he went to Adam Opel AG in Rüsselsheim , where he became head of purchasing and a member of the board in 1936. In October 1938 he became head of the truck plant in Brandenburg / H. and thus successor to Hanns Grewenig . In addition, Stieler von Heydekampf, who had joined the NSDAP in 1933 , was appointed military economic leader. In 1942 he moved to Henschel & Sohn in Kassel, where he was General Director and Deputy Chairman of the Henschel Group. On December 21, 1943, he took over the chairmanship of the tank commission of the Ministry of Armaments and War Production ( Albert Speer ) from Ferdinand Porsche and thus became head of German tank production until the end of the Second World War . In 1943 and 1944, Stieler von Heydekampf was also a board member of the Association of German Engineers (VDI).

After the end of the war, Stieler von Heydekampf initially worked as a consultant and sales representative and joined NSU Motorenwerke in Neckarsulm in 1948 , where he became a board member for sales in 1950 and general director and chairman in 1953. During his time on the board, NSU developed into the largest two-wheeler manufacturer in Europe and was able to successfully restart the production of automobiles. The takeover of NSU by Volkswagen and the merger with the VW subsidiary Auto Union to form Audi NSU Auto Union AG in 1969 was driven by Stieler von Heydekampf in order to ensure NSU's survival. After the merger, he headed the board of the new company until March 31, 1971. Then he quit his job for health reasons, he had suffered a heart attack . His successor as Audi CEO was Rudolf Leiding .

Stieler von Heydekampf lived in Heilbronn. In 1963 he and his wife Elisabeth donated a cemetery with a chapel to the hamlet of Stocksberg in the Löwenstein Mountains , where he owned a country house , the Protestant Resurrection Chapel . He was buried in this Stocksberg cemetery in 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry of Stieler von Heydekampf's dissertation in the online catalog of the German National Library
  2. ^ Reinhold Billstein, Karola Fings, Anita Kugler , Nicholas Levis: Working for the Enemy. Ford, General Motors, and forced labor in Germany during the Second World War . Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-84545-013-2 , p. 51
  3. ^ Willi A. Boelcke : Germany's armament in the Second World War. Hitler's conferences with Albert Speer 1942–1945. Athenaion, Frankfurt am Main 1969, p. 321.
  4. ^ Marie-Luise Heuser , Wolfgang König : Tabular compilations on the history of the VDI . In: Karl-Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): Technology, Engineers and Society - History of the Association of German Engineers 1856–1981 . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400510-0 , p. 590 .
  5. ↑ a b c d anniversary dates 2013 . Audi Tradition, Ingolstadt, p. 4–5 ( audi.de PDF; 3.01 MB).
  6. ↑ a b c Heinz Michaels: “There wouldn't be a problem…” With the savior VW, the NSU plant also got into major difficulties again. In: The time . No. 17, April 18, 1975, p. 34 ( zeit.de )
  7. ↑ Gerd Stieler von Heydekampf . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1963, pp. 94 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Elfriede Schick: The Martin Luther Church in Neulautern and the Resurrection Chapel in Stocksberg. In: Evangelical churches in the deanery Weinsberg. Evangelical Dean's Office Weinsberg, Weinsberg 2003, pp. 38–39.

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SURNAME Stieler von Heydekampf, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heydekampf, Gerd Stieler from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist and manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1983
Place of death Heilbronn