Gottfried Dierig

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Gottfried Dierig (born January 28, 1889 in Oberlangenbielau , Lower Silesia ; † May 11, 1945 in Langenbielau ) was a German entrepreneur in the textile industry . Under his leadership, Christian Dierig AG rose to become the largest cotton-processing textile company in continental Europe at times.

Life

Share over 1000 RM in Christian Dierig AG from December 1941, signed by Gottfried Dierig

Dierig studied at the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg . As a stud. iur. et text. he renounced on November 5, 1907 in the Corps Rhenania Strasbourg . Later he was director of the listed, internationally active textile company Christian Dierig AG based in Langenbielau in Silesia , which was founded in 1805 by his great-grandfather Christian Gottlob Dierig . From 1923, together with his brother Wolfgang Dierig , Gottfried Dierig took over the competing Hammersen Group with its headquarters in Osnabrück and branches in Münsterland , Augsburg and Kempten . This takeover, which was de facto in 1930 and legally completed in 1935, made Dierig the largest cotton processing company in continental Europe in 1935.

Dierig was a provincial councilor in 1933 and was one of the founding members of the Academy for German Law . From 1935 to 1938 he was head of the textile industry economic group . In December 1936 he was appointed chairman of the Reich Association of German Industry by Hjalmar Schacht , and in November 1938 he was recalled and replaced by Wilhelm Zangen , the general director of Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG . Dierig committed in 1945 during the invasion of the Red Army suicide .

See also

literature

  • Daniela Kahn: The control of the economy by law in National Socialist Germany. The example of the Reichsgruppe Industrie . Frankfurt am Main 2006, p. 505. (with short biography)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members of the Rhenania-Straßburg zu Marburg, No. 241 (2011)
  2. ^ Dierig Holding AG (Ed.): Material for Augsburg. 1918 to 2018. Dierig an Lech and Wertach. Self-published, Augsburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-058948-5 , pp. 73 ff .
  3. ^ Hans Frank (ed.): Yearbook of the Academy for German Law , 1st year 1933/34. Schweitzer Verlag, Munich / Berlin / Leipzig undated, p. 253.
  4. ^ Gerd Höschle: The German textile industry between 1933 and 1939. State interventionism and economic rationality. (= Quarterly for social and economic history , supplement 174.) Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08531-9 , p. 90. ( limited preview in the Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Dierig, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, board member of Christian Dierig AG
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberlangenbielau , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1945
Place of death Langenbielau