Max Ilgner

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Max Ilgner during the Nuremberg Trials

Max Ilgner (born June 28, 1899 in Biebesheim ; † March 28, 1966 in Schwetzingen ) was a board member of IG Farben and a military economist .

Life

The son of the head of the secretariat at BASF attended school in Düsseldorf and entered the main cadet school in Lichterfelde near Berlin in 1913 . In 1918 - shortly before the end of the First World War - he was assigned to the front. In 1919 Ilgner began to study chemistry , metallurgy , law and economics in Berlin-Charlottenburg and Frankfurt am Main ; in Frankfurt he was a member of the Corps Austria . In 1923 he received his doctorate . In parallel to his studies, he completed commercial and banking training.

From 1923 to 1924 he worked in Stockholm. He was later married to a Swede and the couple had three children.

In 1924 Illgner became head and authorized signatory of purchasing at the chemical company Cassella . A year later (1925) - Ilgner was already a director - the company was incorporated into the IG Farben concern. In 1926 Ilgner was authorized signatory at the newly founded IG Farben and there in 1934 managing director of the ammonia plant in Merseburg . Since 1933 he belonged to the so-called F-circle . At IG Farben, Illgner was a deputy board member from 1934 and a full member of the board from 1938. From 1935/1936 he was the deputy chairman of the Central European Economic Conference and, according to its director and Krupp deputy Wilmowsky, was very busy there.

He became politically active in 1937 when he joined the NSDAP ; at the same time he became a member of the German Labor Front . From 1938 he acted as a military economist .

In 1939 Ilgner was appointed managing director of the Bunawerke in Schkopau . In the years to come he became a member of several supervisory and administrative boards , including the "Southeast Committee of the Reichsgruppe Industrie" and the "Arbeitsgruppe für Reichswirtschaftsfragen". Both groups were subordinate to the Reich Ministry of Economics . As head of the central financial administration of IG Farben, Ilgner was a liaison to a number of ministries. He also took part in the financial exploitation of chemical plants in the occupied territories.

In 1945 Ilgner was arrested by the US Army and later brought to justice. In 1948, the VI sentenced him for his work in Norway . US Military Court in Nuremberg in the IG Farben trial on the charge of “looting and robbery” to a prison sentence of three years.

After his early release in 1948, Ilgner took over the planning and supervision of the refugee town of Espelkamp , where a street is named after him, on behalf of the Evangelical Church in Germany and the Westphalian regional church . In 1952 he also founded the "International Society for Christian Construction". In 1955 he was able to gain a foothold in his old profession when he took over the chairmanship of a Swiss / Dutch chemical company group. Ilgner, Hermann Schmitz's nephew , retired in 1961 and died in March 1966.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Herrlein : Corpslist - directory of the members of the Corps Austria 1861-2001. Frankfurt am Main 2001, serial no.328.
  2. ↑ a b Hermann Weiss (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for the Third Reich. 1998, p. 22.
  3. ↑ a b c Wollheim Memorial - Max Ilgner's biography on wollheim-memorial.de
  4. ^ Tilo Frhr. von Wilmowsky: In retrospect, I would like to say ... On the threshold of the 150th anniversary of Krupp. Stalling, Oldenburg 1961, p. 192.
  5. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 278.

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SURNAME Ilgner, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Board member of IG Farben
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Biebesheim
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1966
Place of death Schwetzingen