Max him

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Max Otto Ihn (born January 25, 1890 in Wilhelmshaven ; † 1983 ) was a German director at Krupp who was sentenced to nine years in prison as a war criminal in the Krupp trial .

Life

He, whose father was corvette captain , served as a career officer in the German Army during the First World War and left the army after the end of the war in 1919. From mid-September 1919 he said he was employed as a trainee at an employers' association in Düsseldorf. From the beginning of December 1921, he worked for Westfälische Drahtindustrie AG in Hamm , a subcontractor of the Krupp Group.

After handing over power to the National Socialists , he joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 ( membership number 3.421.752). He quickly made a career for the Krupp concern in Essen : at the beginning of June 1933 he was employed at the cast steel factory of Friedrich Krupp AG . In August 1933, he received power of attorney as assistant director . From the end of 1934 he headed the personnel department at Krupp and from October 1935 was the company's deputy defense officer. In October 1937 he was promoted to department director. In early October 1938 he became deputy director and responsible for the press and propaganda department. During the Second World War he was promoted to director at Krupp in March 1941. From the end of March 1943 to mid-December 1943 he was a deputy member of the board and responsible for allegiance and general administration. After converting the AG into a family business, he was a deputy member of the board of directors from December 1943. He was a member of the Association of German Ironworkers and belonged to several economic committees. He was councilor of the city of Essen. He was a bearer of the War Merit Cross 1st and 2nd class. In September 1944 he took on a managerial role at the cast steel factory.

After the end of the war, he and other members of the Krupp directorate were arrested in September 1945 and then imprisoned. In the course of the Nuremberg trials , he and Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach and ten other board members were indicted before an American military court in the Krupp trial. His defense attorney was Otto Kranzbühler . Because of his participation in the forced labor program , he was sentenced on July 31, 1948 to a nine-year prison term. At the beginning of February 1951 he was released early from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison . He then worked for Krupp again until 1953 and then for the Federal Association of German Employers' Associations . From January 1, 1954 to March 31, 1957 he was general manager at the employers' association Gesamtmetall .

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 .
  • Lothar Gall (ed.): Krupp in the 20th century. The history of the company from the First World War to the establishment of the foundation. Siedler, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-88680-742-8
  • Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals . Volume IX: "The Krupp Case". Washington 1950. ( PDF, 67 MB )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ^ Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. Volume IX: "The Krupp Case". Washington 1950, p. 812.
  3. ^ A b c Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. Volume IX: "The Krupp Case". Washington 1950, pp. 44f.
  4. ↑ 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. 190.
  5. ↑ a b The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (source collection), Volume 3: German Reich and Protectorate September 1939 - September 1941 (edited by Andrea Löw), Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486 -58524-7 , p. 457.
  6. ↑ 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. 183f.
  7. ↑ 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. 180.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ Klaus-Dietmar Henke: The American Occupation of Germany , Munich 1995. ISBN 3-486-54141-2 , p. 513.
  10. ^ Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. Volume IX: "The Krupp Case". Washington 1950, p. 6.
  11. ↑ Kurt Pritzkoleit: Men, Powers, Monopolies: Behind the Doors of the West German Economy, K. Rauch, 1963, p. 172.
  12. ^ Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 278.
  13. ↑ Luitwin Mallmann, General Association of Metal Industry Employers' Associations (FRG): 100 Years of Total Metal: Perspectives from Tradition, Deutscher Instituts-Verlag, 1990, p. 270.
personal data
SURNAME Him, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Him, Max Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager at Krupp
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmshaven
DATE OF DEATH 1983