Heinrich Wagner (Manager)

Heinrich Wagner (born August 23, 1899 in Saarbrücken ; † January 15, 1953 ) was Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler-Benz AG from 1952 to 1953 .

Heinrich Wagner began his career in the automotive industry on October 1, 1922 as an employee of Adam Opel KG in Rüsselsheim . Among other things, he was the operations manager of various departments and technical plant director. In 1938 he was appointed to the board of directors at Opel and on November 15, 1939, he became chairman of the board, which he had to relinquish again on April 29, 1941 at the instigation of the Nazi Gauleiter Jakob Sprenger . From April 1, 1940, Wagner was a member of the NSDAP and during the Second World War, among other things, he was responsible for the conversion of the Opel company to war production as a manager and military manager .

Due to a denazification process , Wagner had to resign from his position on October 22, 1945. On October 29, 1947, he was classified as a fellow traveler in the arbitration chamber proceedings and sentenced to pay 2000 RM to a reparation fund. In 1948 he was appointed to the Board of Management of Daimler-Benz AG, combined with the management of the plants in Mannheim and Gaggenau, before he succeeded the late Wilhelm Haspel as Chairman of the Board of Management in 1952 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Herve Joly: Continuity and discontinuity of the industrial elite after 1945 In: Dieter Ziegler: Grossbürger und Unternehmer: Die deutsche Wirtschaftselite im 20. Jahrhundert, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 978-3-525-35682-1, p. 68

Web links

• DIE ZEIT, January 22, 1953 No. 04