Hans-Günther Sohl
Hans-Günther Sohl (born May 2, 1906 in Danzig ; † November 13, 1989 in Düsseldorf ) was a German industrial manager.
Life
The son of the lawyer and ministerial official Georg Sohl († 1937) had two brothers (Erich and Werner).
In 1917 the family moved to Berlin , where Hans-Günther Sohl passed his Abitur in 1924 . On April 1, 1924, he began training as a mountain assessor in the Prussian Mining Office Wroclaw . This ended in 1932 and Sohl became an industrial engineer at the Mathias Stinnes colliery in Essen. As a student, he was involved in the Academic Association of Mallets and Iron, today Agricola Academic Association . The connection as a profession-specific circle gave him support in starting his career and in other positions. Sohl joined the NSDAP in 1933 . In the same year he moved to the raw materials department of Friedrich Krupp AG , which he took over as head in 1935. From October 1, 1941, he replaced Hermann Wenzel as director of the United Steel Works . Due to the resignation of Ernst Poensgen , he was appointed deputy chairman of the board of the United Steelworks under Walter Rohland in November 1943 . As early as 1942, Sohl was appointed military economic leader of the Reichsvereinigung Eisen.
Imprisonment after 1945
With the end of National Socialism, Sohl was arrested on December 1, 1945 based on the Central Registry of War Crimes and Security Suspects (CROWCASS) , initially taken to an interim camp in Iserlohn and interned at the Bad Nenndorf interrogation center on December 4, 1945 . About six months later Sohl came to the former main camp VI A , the now of the British Army of the Rhine -run Civilian Internment Camp No. 7 , known as Camp Roosevelt . The last stop was the - formerly Stalag VI-K (326) - internment Eselsheide in Paderborn , from which he was released on May 17, 1947th
Professional career from 1947
At the turn of the year 1947/48 he was brought back to the board of the United Steelworks, Sohl and Hermann Wenzel were responsible for the unbundling (company structure) and dismantling (reparation) of the United Steelworks and contributed to the reorganization of the German heavy industry. In 1953 he became CEO of Thyssen AG (one of the successor companies of the United Steel Works ). With the takeover of the majority in the Rheinstahl group in 1973 - shortly before Sohl's age-related replacement by his successor Dieter Spethmann - Thyssen became the largest steel group in Europe and the second largest in the world. Sohl was chairman of the steel trade association from 1956 to 1969 and chairman of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) from 1972 to 1976 .
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit (1956)
- Large Federal Cross of Merit with Star (1969)
- Large Federal Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon (1973)
- Order of the Sacred Treasure (1988)
- The Hans-Günther-Sohl-Straße in Dusseldorf - Flingern was named in 1991 in honor Sohls. In 2017 it was renamed Luise-Rainer- Strasse because of Sohl's NSDAP past, his role in the arms industry during the Nazi era and his contribution to the exploitation of forced laborers .
literature
- Ernst Klee : Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich . 2nd Edition. 2003, p. 586
- Manfred Rasch: Sohl, Hans-Günther. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 537-539 ( digitized version ).
- Hans-Günther Sohl , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 50/1989 of December 4, 1989, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Films, film contributions
- Gerolf Karwath: Hitler's Elites after 1945 , Part 3: Entrepreneurs - Profiteers of injustice. Director: Holger Hillesheim. Südwestrundfunk (SWR, 2002).
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans-Günther Sohl in the catalog of the German National Library
- From the interrogation protocols (PDF; 261 kB) of the Nuremberg trials, at IfZ Munich
- Here is a cinematic tour of his own home in Ludenberg near Düsseldorf (including a huge park, two swimming pools and half a dozen bathrooms): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Makki_4zY ; see also newspaper report: http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/stadtteile/hubbelrath/ein-rundgang-durch-die-verwunschene-villa-sohl-aid-1.6735587 ; the house is to be demolished in 2018.
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Erker / Toni Pierenkemper, German entrepreneur between the war economy and reconstruction. Studies on the experience building of industrial elites, Munich 1999, p. 58.
- ↑ Sandra Markus, Accounting and Creating Meaning: Memories of Entrepreneurs in the 20th Century, p. 215.
- ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 , second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 586.
- ^ German entrepreneurs between the war economy and reconstruction. Studies on the experience building of industrial elites , Erker, T. Pierenkemper (ed.), 1999
- ↑ Ernst Klee, Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 , 2nd updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 586.
- ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 43, March 9, 1973.
- ^ Jean-Marie Thiébaud: L'Ordre du Trésor sacré (Japon). In: Editions L'Harmattan. L'Harmattan, December 2007, accessed July 27, 2009 (French).
- ↑ ThyssenKrupp and Japan: closely linked by almost 150 years of business relationships. ThyssenKrupp, accessed July 28, 2009 .
- ↑ Uwe Koopmann: A new door plate for Dr. Sole. In: NRhZ-Online from April 27, 2016
- ↑ Hans-Günther-Sohl-Straße is now called Luise-Rainer-Straße. In: Antenne Düsseldorf from March 11, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sohl, Hans-Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrial manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1989 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |