Heinrich Gattineau

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Heinrich Gattineau during the Nuremberg Trials

Heinrich Gattineau (born January 6, 1905 in Bucharest , † April 27, 1985 in Munich ) was a German economist , SA leader, director of IG Farben and accused during the Nuremberg trials .

Origin, studies and family

Heinrich Gattineau was the son of the dentist Julius Gattineau and his wife Anna, née Schneeweiss. He attended schools in Switzerland and Germany and finished his school career at a grammar school in Munich . From 1923 he belonged to the Bund Oberland and was active in athletics. After graduating from high school, he studied political science , law , finance , economics and geopolitics at the University of Munich from 1923 . In 1924 he was accepted into the Corps Bavaria Munich ; Eduard Brücklmeier and Karl Tempel were among his direct co- workers . Gattineau graduated in 1925 with a degree in economics and , after completing his legal clerkship and passing the state examination in 1927, obtained his doctorate in 1927. oec. publ. with the dissertation The urbanization process in Australia and its significance for the future of the white race . Since 1929 he was married to Wera, nee Fritzsche. The couple had five children.

Career entry and period of National Socialism

Gattineau was employed by IG Farben as an assistant to Carl Duisberg from January 1928 , and from 1931 was in charge of the trade policy department and the company's own press office. At the instigation of CEO Carl Bosch , Gattineau arranged a meeting with Adolf Hitler through Karl Haushofer (Haushofer's grandfather Max was also a Bavarian from Munich ) and Rudolf Hess for the director of IG Farben, Heinrich Bütefisch , in 1932 in order to win him over to the production of synthetic gasoline .

Gattineau joined the SA in 1933 . In the SA he became an economic advisor in the staff of the SA leader Ernst Röhm . Due to the contact with Röhm he received the rank of SA-Sturmbannführer z. b. V. and already at the end of 1933 that of an SA standard leader z. b. V. After the so-called Röhm Putsch he was briefly imprisoned in the Columbiahaus concentration camp and left the SA after his release from prison. He was admitted to the NSDAP in 1935, despite the ban on membership . According to his own statements, he also belonged to the Nazi organizations DAF , the NSV , the NS-Reichsbund für physical exercises from 1934 and from 1936 as a supporting member of the NSKK . Gattineau was a member of the F-Circle , board member of the Near and Middle East Association and the German Gentlemen's Club .

From 1933 to 1938, Gattineau headed the economic policy department at IG Farben's Berlin headquarters and was IG Farben's liaison to the government. He then worked for IG Farben as director of the Nobel dynamite factory in Bratislava until the end of the Second World War . In Bratislava he was one of several directors. In addition, he was director of Chemischen Industrie AG in Bratislava, on the board of the East Slovak Chemical Factory and was a member of the administrative board of other companies in Southeast Europe.

post war period

After the end of the war, Gattineau was arrested by the US Army in 1945 and charged with 22 other accused in the IG Farben trial during the Nuremberg Trials . On July 30, 1948, Gattineau and ten other defendants were acquitted on the basis of the evidence. In the denazification process , the main chamber of Traunstein classified Heinrich Gattineau in group 5 of the exonerated at the end of 1948.

Gattineau was then on the board of WASAG -Chemie AG in Essen ( Krupp Group ) and Guano-Werke AG in Hamburg (Krupp and Guano Group). He was also a member of the supervisory board of Mitteldeutsche Sprengstoffwerke GmbH in Langelsheim and other companies and was on the advisory board of Dresdner Bank AG in Düsseldorf .

Wife's short vita was listed in the GDR Brown Book . In 1975 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit.

In 1933 Gattineau had managed to release Hans Schnitzler , who had been arrested by the Gestapo . His brother, Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler , judges in his autobiography that Gattineau was certainly neither racist nor a denunciator.

Gattineau died in late April 1985.

Publications

Through the cliffs of the 20th century. Memories of the time and Economic history. Seewald, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-512-00672-8 . (Autobiography)

literature

  • Jens Ulrich Heine: Verstand & Schicksal: The men of IG Farbenindustrie AG (1925–1945) in 161 short biographies. Verlag Chemie, Weinheim 1990, ISBN 3-527-28144-4 .
  • Christian Mattke: Albert Oeckl - his life and work for German public relations. VS, 2006, ISBN 3-531-14989-X .

swell

  • Judgment of the Spruchkammer Traunstein (AZ KM 32/48) of December 22, 1948 - Printed in: Heinrich Gattineau: Through the cliffs of the 20th century. Memories of contemporary and economic history . Seewald, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-512-00672-8 , p. 206.
  • Affidavit, interrogations of Heinrich Gattineau 1946/47. In: Archive of the Institute for Contemporary History , Munich, signature ZS-906-1 1948/56 (online) pdf, 19.21 MB
  • SV Zehlendorfer Wespen 1911 e. V. (Ed.): 100 years of SV Zehlendorfer Wespen 1911 eV Festschrift, Berlin (2011), pp. 66–76
  • Heinrich Gattineau: Through the cliffs of the 20th century. Memories of contemporary and economic history. Seewald, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-512-00672-8 . (Autobiography)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Who's who in Germany. Part 1; Volume 4, Part 1, Intercontinental Book and Publishing Company, German editor R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1972, p. 433.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Wollheim Memorial - Biography of Heinrich Gattineau
  3. ^ Christian Mattke: Albert Oeckl - his life and work for German public relations. 2006, p. 51.
  4. ↑ Kösener Korps-Lists 1960, 104 , 1541
  5. ^ A b Christian Mattke: Albert Oeckl - his life and work for German public relations. 2006, p. 43.
  6. ^ Christian Mattke: Albert Oeckl - his life and work for German public relations. VS, 2006, p. 52.
  7. ^ Christian Mattke: Albert Oeckl - his life and work for German public relations. Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14989-X , p. 40.
  8. ^ Karl Dietrich Bracher , Wolfgang Sauer, Gerhard Schulz (ed.): The National Socialist Seizure of Power. Studies on the establishment of the totalitarian system of rule in Germany 1933/34 , Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne and Opladen 1960, 2nd edition. Springer, Wiesbaden 1960, p. 883.
  9. ^ Christian Mattke: Albert Oeckl - his life and work for German public relations. 2006, pp. 40, 52.
  10. ↑ Affidavit, hearings of Heinrich Gattineau 1946/47. In: Archive of the Institute for Contemporary History , Munich, signature ZS-906-1 1948/56, p. 8.
  11. ↑ Jutta Günther, Dagmara Jajesniak-Quast: Welcome investors or national sell-off? Foreign direct investment in East Central Europe in the 20th century: Foreign direct investment in East Central Europe in the 20th century. BWV, 2006, ISBN 3-8305-1186-8 , pp. 155, 159.
  12. ^ Affidavit by Heinrich Gattineau 1946/47. In: Archive of the Institute for Contemporary History , Munich, signature ZS-906-1 1948/56, p. 8.
  13. ↑ Bernd Boll: Case 6: The IG Farben Trial. In: Gerd R. Ueberschär : The allied trials against war criminals and soldiers 1943–1952. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-596-13589-3 , pp. 139f.
  14. ↑ Printed in: Heinrich Gattineau: Through the cliffs of the 20th century. Memories of contemporary and economic history. Seewald, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-512-00672-8 , p. 206.
  15. ^ Norbert Podewin (ed.): Braunbuch - war and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and in Berlin (West). Reprint of the 1968 edition (3rd edition), Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-360-01033-7 , p. 52/53 - Gattineau is wrongly referred to as SS-Standartenführer (instead of SA-Standartenführer) / “friend” of Göring and Himmler unprovable.
  16. ↑ Who is who ?: The German who's who. Volume 18, Societäts-Verlag, 1974, p. 286.
  17. ^ Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler: My castles or How I found my fatherland. Edition Nautilus Verlag Lutz Schulenburg, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-89401-249-8 , p. 61.
personal data
SURNAME Gattineau, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, SA leader and director of IG Farben
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1985
Place of death Munich