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Hilar Giebel as a witness at the Nuremberg trials.

Hilarius "Hilar" August Giebel (born October 24, 1883 in Leimbach , Hünfeld district; after 1949) was a German entrepreneur.

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Giebel was the son of the farmer B. Giebel and his wife Theresia, née Kraus. After attending elementary school in Leimbach, he was taught at the Oberrealschule in Fulda from 1904, which he left at Easter 1908 with the school-leaving certificate. He then studied economics and law at the universities of Munich, Berlin, Strasbourg and Heidelberg. His lecturers included Brentano, Lotz, Gierke, Kipp, Brunner, Adolf Wagner, Gustav v. Schmoller , von Halle, Knapp, Laband, Alfred Weber, Jellineck, Fleiner and E. Gothein.

In the 1920s, Giebel gained a reputation as a renovation expert. During the Nazi era, Giebel acted as an “industrial advisor” to Dresdner Bank . In this capacity he was delegated to the board of the Engelhardt Brewery and entrusted with the implementation of the Aryanization of this company. According to Dieter Ziegler's judgment, he proceeded “extremely brutally and without consideration”: Essentially, he took control of the block of shares in the company from the Jewish owner Ignatz Nachher by means of blackmailing methods.

Giebel later became the owner of Columbia-Werke GmbH.

After the Second World War, Giebel appeared as a witness at the Nuremberg trials .

Fonts

• Funding the Potash Industry; Hilarius August Giebel , 1912. (Dissertation)
• Current economic problems. Lecture given in the Club of Catholic Academics, Vienna, on January 12, 1932 , 1932.

literature

• Dieter Ziegler: The Dresdner Bank and the German Jews , 2006.