Hugo Scholz (economic functionary)

Hugo Scholz (born November 22, 1894 ; † after 1975) was a German economic functionary. In the 1950s and 1960s Scholz was a board member of the United German Metalworks, now ThyssenKrupp VDM .

Life and activity

After attending school and studying political science (?) At Heidelberg University , which he completed with a doctorate in 1921, Scholz began to work in industry. At the beginning of the 1930s he can be verified as the head of a press office that was jointly financed by the industrialists Friedrich Flick and Otto Wolff . This office had the task of maintaining contact with important press editors, parties, associations and especially with government agencies in order to protect the interests of its financiers. In 1932 Scholz was in personal correspondence with Franz Bracht, who was appointed by the Papen government as Reich Commissioner in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior .

In the period from October 15, 1946 to June 30, 1947, Scholz acted as the head of the secretariat of Heinrich Dinkelbach 's "Treuhandverwaltung der North German Iron and Steel Control " (NGISC) in Düsseldorf, a provisional officer formed in October 1946 by the British military administration German authority that was entrusted with the implementation of the measures necessary to bring the iron and steel industry back into the Ruhr area and with a general "unbundling and reorganization" of West German heavy industry. After Scholz resigned from his position, the later CDU politician and Federal Minister Gerhard Schröder took up this post.

In the 1950s Scholz became a member of the then four-person board of the United German Metalworks in Frankfurt am Main .

Fonts

The situation of employees and workers in shipping on the Rhine , Heidelberg 1921. (Dissertation)

literature

Gabriele Müller-List: New beginning for iron and steel in the Ruhr area: the relationships between employers and employees in the North Rhine-Westphalian iron and steel industry 1945–1948. 1990.

Individual evidence

↑ Year of birth according to Walter Vogel: West Germany 1945–1950. The establishment of constitutional and administrative institutions over the countries of the three western zones of occupation. Part 2 (= publications of the Federal Archives, Volume 12). Boppard / Rh. 1964, p. 230; The fact that he was still alive in 1975 emerges from a congratulatory message on his 75th birthday in the magazine Maschinenmarkt in 1974.
↑ Reinhard Neebe: The Republic of Weimar 1918–1933. Democracy without Democrats? 1987, p. 111; Ulrike Hörster-Philipps: In the shadow of big money: Flick group and politics. Weimar Republic, Third Reich, Federal Republic. 1985, p. 101.
^ Walter Vogel: West Germany 1945–1950. The establishment of constitutional and administrative institutions over the countries of the three western zones of occupation. Part 2 (= publications of the Federal Archives, Volume 12). Boppard / Rh. 1964, p. 226.
↑ Walter Vogel identifies him as a board member: West Germany 1945–1950. The establishment of constitutional and administrative institutions over the countries of the three western zones of occupation. Part 2 (= publications of the Federal Archives, Volume 12). Boppard / Rh. 1964, p. 230; in the Ullstein manual. Berlin u. a. 1960, p. 670 he is still named as one of four board members.

personal data
SURNAME	Scholz, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German economic functionary
DATE OF BIRTH	November 22, 1894
DATE OF DEATH	after 1975

[1] Year of birth according to Walter Vogel: West Germany 1945–1950. The establishment of constitutional and administrative institutions over the countries of the three western zones of occupation. Part 2 (= publications of the Federal Archives, Volume 12). Boppard / Rh. 1964, p. 230; The fact that he was still alive in 1975 emerges from a congratulatory message on his 75th birthday in the magazine Maschinenmarkt in 1974.

[2] Reinhard Neebe: The Republic of Weimar 1918–1933. Democracy without Democrats? 1987, p. 111; Ulrike Hörster-Philipps: In the shadow of big money: Flick group and politics. Weimar Republic, Third Reich, Federal Republic. 1985, p. 101.

[3] Walter Vogel: West Germany 1945–1950. The establishment of constitutional and administrative institutions over the countries of the three western zones of occupation. Part 2 (= publications of the Federal Archives, Volume 12). Boppard / Rh. 1964, p. 226.

[4] Walter Vogel identifies him as a board member: West Germany 1945–1950. The establishment of constitutional and administrative institutions over the countries of the three western zones of occupation. Part 2 (= publications of the Federal Archives, Volume 12). Boppard / Rh. 1964, p. 230; in the Ullstein manual. Berlin u. a. 1960, p. 670 he is still named as one of four board members.