Jürgen von Klenck
Jürgen von Klenck (born June 8, 1909 in Bromberg , Province of Posen , † February 20, 1978 ) was a German chemist and economic functionary.
Life
Klenck was the son of government councilor Georg von Klenck (1872–1923) and Ruth Freiin von Schlichting-Bukowiec. After attending school in Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt an der Oder, Berlin and Cologne, where he passed the high school diploma at the Kreuzgasse at Easter 1927, Klenck studied chemistry. He began his studies at the University of Cologne, where he passed the 1st association examination at Easter 1931. He then moved to the University of Göttingen , where he passed the 2nd association examination in the summer of 1932.
From 1932 Klenck worked at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Göttingen in the institute of Peter Adolf Thiessen on a dissertation on conversion processes in alkali salts of long-chain fatty acids, with which he obtained his doctorate in 1933 (date of the oral examination: December 20, 1933). In May of the same year, Klenck - allegedly under the influence of Thiessens - joined the NSDAP (membership number 3.188.932).
In 1934 Klenck was employed as a chemist in the color laboratory headed by Georg Kränzlein at IG Farbenwerk Hoechst. In mid-1935 he moved from there to the coloristic department. From 1935 to 1940 he was a member of Standard 4/2 of the National Socialist Schutzstaffel (SS) in Frankfurt.
From 1940 to 1942 Klenck took part as a soldier in World War II , in which he was deployed in Belgium and France. After his discharge from the Wehrmacht in February 1942, he took up a research position at IG Farben in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . In autumn of the same year he was appointed by the Ludwigshafen plant manager Otto Ambros as his deputy head of Special Committee C in the Reich Ministry for Armaments and War Production . In this position he gained extensive knowledge of the planning of the German armaments command with regard to the use of chemical warfare agents. In mid-1943, Klenck finally took over the management of the nerve gas factory (Sarin-Werk) in Falkenhagen, which primarily produced chlorine trifluoride for war needs. In May 1944 he also took on the role of authorized representative of Monturon GmbH , the management company of the Falkenhagen factory.
At the end of the war, Klenck was captured by the Allies. In the following years he was interrogated on various issues relating to chemical warfare and then used as a witness in the IG Farben trial .
In 1955, Klenck was hired to head the application technology department at Hoechst AG . In 1958 he was appointed director there before he left the company in 1967 to join the Mannesmann board of directors . In 1970, Wilhelm Grotkopp and Ernst Schmacke assigned Klenck to the group of "leading managers in Germany" in this position.
Klenck was married to Mariella Baronesse von Roenne since 1948. The marriage had two children.
Fonts
- Investigations into the genotypic conversion of long-chain fatty acid salts , Wilhelm Postberg book and art print shop, Bottrop iW 1934. (Dissertation)
literature
- Stephan H. Lindner: Hoechst , 2005.
- Florian Schmaltz: Research on warfare agents under National Socialism: on the cooperation between Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes, the military and industry , 2005.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kunststoffe 68 (1978) 3, p. 189.
- ↑ Wilhelm Grotkopp / Ernst Schmacke: The big 500th Germany's leading companies and their management , 1970.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klenck, Jürgen von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and economic functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bromberg , West Prussia Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1978 |