Hans Constantin Boden

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Hans Constantin Boden (born July 28, 1893 in Braunschweig , † November 17, 1970 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German economic manager during the Nazi era and in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Life

The son of Brunswick Minister Robert floor and Maria Uhde, daughter of the architect Constantin Uhde , studied in Wuerzburg law and economics, doctorate to Dr. jur. et rer. pole. and completed the legal traineeship with the assessor exam. As a Rhodes scholarship holder in Oxford he received a "Diploma in Economics and Political Science". He began his work in the public service in the Reich Ministry for Reconstruction and in the Reich Ministry of Finance . Between 1925 and 1929 he was a member of the German War Burden Commission in Paris and in 1929 was involved in the negotiations on the Young Plan . In the same year he went to AEG and succeeded Paul Mamroth as CFO . In the Second World War he was appointed military economist . He gave instructions that the AEG should not employ any forced laborers from the concentration camps , which, however, were not followed.

After he, who described himself as an anti-Nazi, was forced out of his office at the AEG by the National Socialists in the spring of 1944, he returned to the Foreign Office from May 8, 1944 until the end of the war and was appointed to the representative of the Greater German Empire employed in Hungary Edmund Veesenmayer . The Hungarian economy should be brought under the leadership of the German embassy. Since April 1944, the Eichmann Command, with the support of the Hungarian authorities and the German embassy, was already in the process of deporting 400,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz . After the coup d'état carried out by the Arrow Cross members in October 1944, which was supported by the Germans, the Budapest Jews were to be deported to Germany for forced labor. Due to the war, this was only partially carried out. Boden's position on these issues, which were discussed in the embassy rooms, is not known.

After the end of the war he was exonerated as part of the denazification (category V).

Boden, who had been a member of the supervisory board of AEG, Telefunken , Esso, Deutsche Werft AG , Mannesmann and other companies since 1929, initially became head of the finance department and deputy chairman of the board of AEG, from March 1956 to September 1962 its chairman and from 1961 to 1961 1970 Chairman of the Supervisory Board, each time with a small interruption. As a result, he also had a seat on the supervisory boards of the Olympia works in Wilhelmshaven , at the Elektrofinanz-AG. Berlin, at Papierfabrik GmbH , Osnabrück , at Rosenthal -Isolatoren, Selb , at Telefunken GmbH, Berlin, at Dresdner Bank and at Lloyd Dynamowerke , Bremen . In the negotiations on the compensation of forced laborers in May 1960, Boden succeeded in preventing all future claims with a payment of 4 million DM to the Jewish Claims Conference .

In 1950 he was part of the negotiating delegation for the Schuman Plan and was President of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris from 1961 to 1963 . Other offices were the deputy chairmanship of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and membership in the German Atomic Energy Commission at the Federal Minister for Nuclear Issues and in the Foreign Trade Advisory Council at the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs .

Honors

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 1: Johannes Hürter : A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1 .
  • Benjamin B. Ferencz : Less than slaves , Cambridge, Mass. [u. a.]: Harvard Univ. Press, 1979.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benjamin B. Ferencz: Less than slaves , Cambridge, Mass. [u. a.]: Harvard Univ. Press, 1979, p. 114.
  2. ^ Benjamin B. Ferencz: Less than slaves , Cambridge, Mass. [u. a.]: Harvard Univ. Press, 1979, p. 113.
  3. ↑ A scan of the discharge slip was deposited in support .
personal data
SURNAME Boden, Hans Constantin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boden, Hans August Constantin; Boden, Hans C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial manager
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1970
Place of death Frankfurt am Main