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Hermann books

Hermann Bücher (born August 28, 1882 in Kirberg ; † July 14, 1951 in Frankfurt am Main ) was an industrialist and German government official.

Life

At the urging of his uncle, the factory owner's son and nephew of the economist Karl Bücher was given the opportunity to attend grammar school Philippinum Weilburg . There he passed his school leaving examination in 1902. He studied botany in Leipzig , graduating with a dissertation with Wilhelm Pfeffer . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Leipzig . In 1906 Hermann Bücher began his service in the colonial department of the Foreign Office, which was transferred to the Reich Colonial Office in 1907 . There he got a job as a phytopathologist at the Research Institute for Regional Culture in Victoria in Cameroon. In 1908 he took over the management of the institution. During this activity he made a trip to New Guinea, Java and Sumatra.

In order to receive his promotion to the government council , Bücher traveled back to Germany, where the illness of blackwater fever kept him for a long time, so that he could not return to Cameroon when the First World War broke out in 1914. He worked temporarily as Undersecretary of State in the Reich Colonial Office, but was then seconded to the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture for the duration of the war. After the end of the war he traveled back to Berlin via Russia. In the Foreign Office , he led from 1920 to 1921, the Special Unit W / Economics and received the rank of lecturer Legation Council .

From 1921 to 1925 Hermann Bücher was an executive member of the presidency of the Reich Association of German Industry . From 1925 he was an economic advisor to IG Farbenindustrie . In 1927 he moved to AEG , where he was appointed to the board in 1928. After the death of Felix Deutsch , who, together with Paul Mamroth and Paul Jordan, formed the triumvirate of Emil Rathenau's oldest employees , a three-person board of directors took over the management of AEG again. In addition to books , it included August Elfes and Waldemar Petersen . In 1930 August Elfes resigned from the board of directors, Bücher became the sole chairman of the board and Petersen his deputy. During this time, the "Briesener Zootzen " estate in Havelland was the center of his life. In 1933, Hermann Bücher was one of the founding members of the Academy for German Law with the indication "General Director of the AEG" .

He kept his distance from the Nazi system ; Albert Speer exonerated him, along with a number of other industrial leaders, of suspicion of involvement in the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 .

Books was chairman of the board of directors of AEG until 1947, from 1948 to 1950 a member of the "Bizonal IG Farben Dispersal Panel" (FARDIP), and from 1950 to 1951 chairman of the supervisory board of AEG.

He is the father of the biochemist Theodor Bücher .

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Anatomical changes in the event of violent curvature and geotropic induction, Diss. Leipzig 1906
  2. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 30.
  3. ^ Yearbook of the Academy for German Law, 1st year 1933/34. Edited by Hans Frank. (Munich, Berlin, Leipzig: Schweitzer Verlag), p. 252
  4. ↑ Albert Speer, Memories, Propylaea Frankfurt / M. 1970, 8th edition, p. 575 note 22
  5. ↑ Quarterly Books f. Contemporary history, Volume 25 1997/2. Booklet, H.-D. Kreitkamp The unbundling of the IG Farbenindustrie AG 1945–1952 and the establishment of the successor companies, pp. 226-251 (PDF; 6.2 MB)

literature

  • Tilmann Buddensieg (ed.): Industrial culture. Peter Behrens and the AEG . 4th edition. Berlin 1993.
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. German business publisher, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 .
  • Hugo Grün: Kirberg 1355-1955. Festschrift for the local festival of today's Fleckens, the former town of Kirberg . Wiesbaden, 1955.
  • Thomas Irmer: "The time will come when everything has to be paid back". The AEG and anti-Semitism . In: Christof Biggeleben, Beate Schreiber, Kilian JL Steiner (ed.): “Aryanization” in Berlin . Berlin 2007, pp. 121–149.
  • Louis P. Lochner : Hermann books. In: Louis P. Lochner: Tycoons and Tyrant - German Industry from Hitler to Adenauer. Chicago 1954, pp. 64-69
  • Walter Seiz:  Books, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 718 ( digitized version ).
  • Marc Zirlewagen: Hermann books. In: Marc Zirlewagen (Ed.): 1881–2006 - 125 years of German student associations. Vol. 1: A historical review. Pressburg 2006, pp. 196-198.

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personal data
SURNAME Books, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant and industrial manager
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirberg , Wiesbaden district
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1951
Place of death Frankfurt am Main