Hans Heyne

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Hans Heyne (born October 4, 1900 in Dresden , † December 24, 1973 in Lindenberg im Allgäu ) was a German economic manager during the Nazi era and in the Federal Republic of Germany . He headed Telefunken GmbH / AG from 1951 to 1964 and was also CEO of the Telefunken parent company AEG from October 1962 to December 1964 .

Life

Heyne's maternal grandfather was Heinrich Ernemann , founder of the Dresden photographic apparatus factory Ernemann  & Matthias ; Hans Heyne's father was the plant manager. After graduating from high school, he worked as a steam locomotive heater, in coal mining and on merchant ships as a machinist. He then studied high and low voltage engineering at the TH Dresden until 1926 and was a student assistant for work on high-voltage pylons.

He was not interested in working in his parents' business and after graduating he began to work for Koch & Sterzel AG in Dresden. From 1928 he had power of attorney and sold licenses and patents in the USA to General Electric . At the TH Dresden he received his doctorate in 1928 as Dr.-Ing. with a dissertation on the measurement of thunderstorm lightning, which was praised as "a major advance in high-voltage technology".

With a recommendation from General Electric, who were already financially intertwined with AEG ( Union-Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft ) before the First World War , he began a career as assistant to the board of the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft in Berlin in 1934 . In 1938 Heyne was appointed general representative and in 1942 a member of the board of AEG. He headed the “Main Committee for Aircraft Equipment” created under Armaments Minister Albert Speer and the “Special Committee for Aircraft Electronics”. For his work in the “ Jägerstab ” he received the Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords in May 1944 . Alongside Waldemar Petersen and Friedrich Gladenbeck, he was one of the leading figures in AEG armaments research.

From 1950 he held a managerial position at the AEG subsidiary Telefunken ; from 1951 to 1964 Heyne was its general director or chairman of the board (from 1963). After the sudden death of AEG boss Hugo Bäurle in January 1962, Bäurle's predecessor, the chairman of the supervisory board, Hans C. Boden, was again AEG boss, until Hans Heyne was appointed chairman of the board in October 1962, which was limited to a maximum of five years at Boden's request. Berthold Gamer took over the post on January 1, 1965 as the preferred candidate of the AEG house banks, but he did not harmonize with Heyne as the new chairman of the supervisory board. This soon publicly operated the replacement of Gamers, who subsequently no longer worked at AEG from the end of October 1965.

At the beginning of 1966, Hans C. Boden was again chairman of the supervisory board and thus successor to Heynes, who, at the insistence of the banks, had to leave the group after years of quarrels at AEG over management positions and retired. Heyne's greatest goal, the merger of AEG with its subsidiary Telefunken, was finally fulfilled in early 1967 under the direction of Gamer's successor, Hans Bühler (1903-1997).

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Hans Heyne in the HEUSS database of the Heilbronn City Archives , contemporary history collection, call number ZS-10174

literature

  • Erdmann Thiele (editor): Telefunken after 100 years - the legacy of a German global brand. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung Berlin, 2003, ISBN 3-87584-961-2
  • Peter Strunk: The AEG. The rise and fall of an industrial legend . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung Berlin, 1999, ISBN 3-87584-535-8

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personal data
SURNAME Heyne, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH December 24th 1973
Place of death Lindenberg in the Allgäu