Martin Hilti
Martin Hilti (born May 8, 1915 in Schaan ; † August 19, 1997 ibid) was a Liechtenstein entrepreneur and National Socialist .
Life
Hilti was the second youngest of eleven children of Schaan master butcher Joseph Hilti (1867–1935) and his wife Walburga (1875–1930, née Quaderer). From 1926 to 1930 he attended the Stella Matutina , a private high school of the Jesuit order in Feldkirch . He then went on to study at the technical branch of the Schwyz college . In 1933 he began studying mathematics and geodesy at the Graz University of Technology .
Hilti became a member of the Liechtenstein Homeland Service in 1933 . Later he became a functionary of the Volksdeutsche movement in Liechtenstein (VDBL) and an admirer of Julius Streicher . Hilti was the editor-in-chief of the VDBL's combat sheet called Umbruch . Jewish immigrants who escaped the Nazis were named, verbally abused and denounced. One of them, Paul Wollenberger, who came to Schaan in 1939, was exposed and denigrated in June 1942. He later litigated Hilti, who was sentenced to a small fine.
During the Second World War , Martin Hilti volunteered in the Waffen SS in 1941 . According to his own statement, he came into contact with business circles after training at the front and then went back to his job.
In 1941 he and his brother Eugen founded the tool manufacturer Hilti , which in 2017 had almost 25,000 employees in 120 countries.
In 1943 he married Elisabeth Iten. The marriage resulted in three sons and a daughter.
literature
- Jnes Rampone-Wanger: Personalities who shaped Liechtenstein , Vaduz 2009, ISBN 978-3-9523464-0-2
- Franco Ruault: Business model hatred of Jews. Martin Hilti - ethnic German entrepreneur in the Principality of Liechtenstein 1939-1945 , Peter Lang, Bern 2017
- HLFL editor: Hilti, Martin. In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c e-archiv.li , platform supported by the Liechtenstein National Archives for the publication of sources on the history of Liechtenstein
- ^ Franco Ruault: Deadly Masquerades. Julius Streicher and the "solution to the Jewish question" Peter Lang, Frankfurt, M. u. a. 2009.
- ↑ Martin Hilti is questioned about his work in the ethnic German movement. In: Minutes of the hearing of witnesses. May 14, 1946, accessed September 8, 2014 .
- ↑ Peter Bollag: The Nazi with the Red Suitcase , Observer, Zurich September 29, 2017, pp. 16-17. ( Available online )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hilti, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Liechtenstein entrepreneur and National Socialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schaan |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 19, 1997 |
| Place of death | Schaan |