Hellmut Röhnert

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Hellmuth Roehnert (born April 21, 1888, probably Wunstorf-Großenheidorn; † June 6, 1945 (suicide) in Celle ) was a German manager and economic functionary during the National Socialist era .

Life

In 1927 he became CEO of the United Electrotechnical Factories FW Busch & Gebr. Jaeger AG .

In May 1932 Roehnert became NSDAP member with the number 4117916. He belonged to the Friends of the Reichsführer SS (also known as the 'Friends of Himmler').

Since 1936 he was a member of the supervisory board of Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG and the advisory board of Arado Flugzeugwerke GmbH . From 1939 he was CEO of Rheinmetall-Borsig AG Berlin, board member of Reichswerke AG for ore mining and ironworks "Hermann Göring" , Busch-Jäger Lüdenscheider Metallwerke AG. The companies of the "weapons block" of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring were all under Roehnert's control. In all companies in which the state was involved and which were located in the final processing armaments industry, Roehnert had a central position on the control committee. In 1942 he was appointed liquidator of the Reichswerke by Hermann Göring . Towards the end of the war Roehnert sat on over 40 advisory and supervisory boards. Mainly through insider dealing - speculating with shares in the companies where he sat on the supervisory board - he increased his fortune from 200,000 marks in 1937 to just under 3,000,000 marks in 1943.

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SURNAME Röhnert, Hellmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roehnert, Hellmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager and Nazi economic functionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Wunstorf-Großenheidorn
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1945
Place of death Celle