Ludwig joy

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Ludwig Freude (* 1889 ; † May 7, 1956 ) was a German-Argentine entrepreneur. The director of Banco Alemán Transatlántico (subsidiary of Deutsche Bank ) was one of the 10 richest business people in Latin America in the 1940s. He was president of the German Club in Buenos Aires from 1941 to 1945 and is one of the most important National Socialists in Argentina.

biography

Joy was a close friend of Perón and helped him escape in October 1945. At that time, Perón and Evita went into hiding in the family's summer house in Ostend to avoid expulsion.

After Uki Goñi , there were rumors that joy was running a "Nazi espionage fund". He "was already involved in financial transactions before the end of the war that were supposed to save Nazi assets from being attacked by the Allies". The Nazi agent Carlos Horst Fuldner , who was commissioned by the head of SD -Ausland Walter Schellenberg to investigate the escape possibilities for Nazi criminals in Argentina and after 1945 as Agent Peróns, organized the escape aid , also worked for joy .

His son Rodolfo Freude became the head of Perón's intelligence service, which served as the headquarters for the Nazi escape assistance to Argentina.

See also

literature

  • Uki Goñi: Odessa - The true story - Escape aid for Nazi war criminals, Berlin / Hamburg: 2006. ISBN 3-935936-40-0

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theo Bruns: Mass exodus of Nazi war criminals to Argentina. The largest escape aid operation in criminal history. In: ila 299 [1]
  2. ↑ Uki Goñi: Odessa - The true story - Escape aid for Nazi war criminals, Berlin / Hamburg: 2006, pages 112, 116, 118, 120, 135, 170, 174, 181, 302, 324 and 391

Web links

  • Theo Bruns: Argentina and the “undesirables”. After 1938, Jewish refugees could often only enter in secret or with forged papers. in: Ila 298 [2]
  • Theo Bruns: Mass exodus of Nazi war criminals to Argentina. The largest escape aid operation in criminal history. in: ila 299 [3]
  • Theo Bruns: The Vatican and the Rat Line. How the Catholic Church smuggled Nazis and war criminals into South America [4]
personal data
SURNAME Joy, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Argentine entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1889
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1956