Karl Eberhardt (Manager)
Karl Adolf Ferdinand Eberhardt (born March 23, 1894 in Meiningen ; † unknown) was a German director at Krupp who was convicted as a war criminal in the Krupp trial .
Life
Eberhardt was the son of a legal consultant . After the First World War , Eberhardt began his employment with the cast steel factory of Friedrich Krupp AG in October 1919 and subsequently worked for the agricultural machinery factory and the engine and vehicle factories.
After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he rose steadily within the Krupp management: from September 1933 he headed the price group within the war materials department, from September 1934 he was authorized signatory and responsible for domestic orders for war material and two years later for incoming orders from abroad.
Eberhardt joined the NSDAP ( membership number 4.038.202) at the beginning of May 1937 and also became a member of the DAF and the NSV . In October 1937 he was promoted to department director at Krupp, and a year later to deputy director of the war material department. During the Second World War , he became director of the War Material Department in March 1941.
At the end of March 1943, Eberhardt became a deputy member of the board at Krupp and headed the armaments and machinery sales division. After converting the AG into a family business, he was a deputy member of the board of directors from mid-December 1943. Within the board of directors, he was also responsible for resolving management problems as well as acquisition and armaments projects. In addition, he was a member of the supervisory board of the Kruppe-owned Sartana Eisen- und Metallwerke GmbH in Essen. Eberhardt was awarded the War Merit Cross 1st and 2nd class.
After the war ended, Eberhardt was arrested by the Allies in September 1945 along with other board members. He and eleven other accused were indicted in the Krupp Trial, which was part of the Nuremberg Trials , and sentenced to nine years imprisonment on July 31, 1948 for participating in the forced labor program and looting. At the beginning of February 1951 Eberhardt was released from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison . After that he lived in Essen again.
literature
- Uwe Kessler: On the history of management at Krupp. From the beginning of the company to the dissolution of Fried. Krupp AG (1811-1943) . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-515-06486-9 .
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals . Volume IX: "The Krupp Case". Washington 1950. ( PDF, 67 MB )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 123
- ↑ Uwe Kessler: On the history of management at Krupp. From the beginning of the company to the dissolution of Fried. Krupp AG (1811-1943) . Stuttgart 1995, p. 177.
- ^ A b Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. Volume IX: "The Krupp Case". Washington 1950, p. 45.
- ↑ Uwe Kessler: On the history of management at Krupp. From the beginning of the company to the dissolution of Fried. Krupp AG (1811-1943) . Stuttgart 1995, p. 179.
- ↑ Uwe Kessler: On the history of management at Krupp. From the beginning of the company to the dissolution of Fried. Krupp AG (1811-1943) . Stuttgart 1995, p. 221.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eberhardt, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eberhardt, Karl Adolf Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manager at Krupp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meiningen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |