Hermann Waibel (entrepreneur)

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Hermann Waibel

Hermann Waibel (born August 22, 1881 in Lahr , † February 22, 1945 in Frankfurt / M.-Höchst ) was a German entrepreneur ( Kommerzienrat ), board member and East Asia expert of IG Farben

Live and act

His father Carl Friedrich Waibel was a business assistant in Lahr, his mother with the name Magdalena, geb. Süttler. With his wife Frieda Augusta Waibel, geb. Kopp, daughter of the rector Heinrich Kopp and Luise Kopp, b. Pine, he had two children.

He attended school in Lahr and received his training at CF Dreyspring, a cardboard box factory, where he worked as an employee for two years after completing his apprenticeship. For his further education, he went to Antwerp and New York for four and a half years , where he acquired knowledge and impressions of the overseas markets, which would later be necessary for his professional career, from prestigious export and import companies, namely Arnold Karberg & Co., New York Career determinants. On December 1, 1906, he joined BASF as a businessman, where he was trained in dyeing technology. He then went into overseas business: first he worked on the Japan and China business, in order to later take over the management of the entire export business of BASF to East and Southeast Asia, British India , the Dutch East Indies , the Middle East as well as Africa and Latin America. In the next few years he helped set up this department. At the end of March 1911 he became an authorized officer at BASF.

The First World War saw him from 1914 as a war participant in Karlsruhe's 1st Leib Grenadier Regiment No. 109 on the western front . Professionally, things continued to improve for him, so he left the war as a lieutenant in the reserve in 1918 and became a deputy member of the board on July 1, 1919. He gained his expertise as a connoisseur of the East Asian region in 1925 while traveling to East Asia for several months, where he concluded the German-Japanese trade agreement for the purpose of exporting BASF aniline dyes.

In 1926 he was appointed deputy board member of IG Farben and head of the Far East export department for dyes. His main area here were the questions of traffic, especially goods traffic. Since IG Farben as a company was not allowed to set up its own representation under its own name in certain countries, Hermann Waibel founded the German paint trading company Waibel & Co in Sofia , Cairo and Shanghai .

From May 23, 1928, he held the position as a full board member of IG Farben and a member of the working committee of the board, at the same time he became deputy chairman of the paint committee, chairman of the transport commission and member of the newly formed commercial committee of the board. From this point on he held the title of Commerzienrat . In 1941 he was also given the office of a member of the board of directors of Francolor Paris. Hermann Waibel campaigned successfully for company employees who were threatened with dismissal under pressure from the NSDAP because of their Jewish descent .

Offices

  • Member of the Ludwigshafen Chamber of Commerce
  • Member of the foreign trade committee of the DIHT
  • Member of the Reich Waterways Advisory Board
  • Member of the Rhine waterways advisory board
  • Member of the transport committee of the Reichsgruppe Industrie
  • Chairman of the East Asia Committee of the Reich Industry Group
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the East Asian Association
  • Member of the China and Indian Committee and Economic Council of the German Academy
  • Member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science and other organizations
  • Member of the State Railway Council Munich
  • Member of the foreign trade committee of the German Industry and Trade Conference in Berlin

Act

After the Second World War, BASF erected a bust in his honor in 1955. In Frankfurt / Main -Hochst the "Hermann-Waibel-Allee" was named after him and in 1965 the Schlebuscher Ring in Leverkusen-Wiesdorf was renamed to "Hermann-Waibel-Straße". In Lahr there is the "Hermann-Waibel-Weg".

literature

  • Grabicki, Michael: A Long Journey: The History of BASF in China from 1885 to Today, Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2015.
  • Heine, Jens Ulrich: Mind & Fate. The men of IG Farbenindustrie AG (1925–1945) in 161 short biographies. Verlag Chemie, Weinheim u. a. 1990.
  • Jeffreys, Diarmuid: “Global corporation and war cartel”. The destructive work of IG Farben. From the American by Helmut Dierlamm and Werner Roller. Blessing Verlag, Munich 2011. 687 pp.
  • Lindner, Stephan H .: Hoechst. An IG Farben plant in the Third Reich. CH Beck, Munich 2005.
  • Plump, Gottfried: The IG Farbenindustrie AG. Economy, technology and politics 1904–1945.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Editing of the plant management in Ludwigshafen a. Rh .: Kommerzienrat Hermann Waibel 60 years, July 14, 1941 . Ed .: Plant Management BASF, Ludwigshafen. Ludwigshafen 1941.
  2. ↑ BASF Annual Report: Annual Report BASF 1923. BASF, January 23, 2019, accessed on January 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Between Shanghai and Chongqing. Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Heine, Jens Ulrich: Understanding & Fate. The men of IG Farbenindustrie AG (1925–1945) in 161 short biographies. Verlag Chemie, Weinheim et al. 1990.
  5. ^ City of Frankfurt: Hermann-Waibel-Allee. City of Frankfurt, January 23, 2019, accessed on January 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Waibel, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur (Kommerzienrat), board member and East Asia expert at IG Farben
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahr
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1945
Place of death Frankfurt / M.-Höchst