Oskar Waldrich

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EH Oskar Waldrich (born June 3, 1880 ; † September 18, 1967 in Limburg an der Lahn ) was a German entrepreneur .

Life

Waldrich joined his father's machine factory HA Waldrich KG on the Sieghütte in Siegen at the age of 26 after completing his studies and internships . In 1919 he took over sole management of the company. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP . He was a member of the SA , last there Obersturmbannführer, the NSFK , there most recently Hauptsturmbannführer, and the Reichskolonialbund (RKB). In 1938 he acquired the Villa Waldrich in Siegen, which from then on was used both as a family seat and as a guest house for the Waldrich company .

After the end of the Nazi regime , Waldrich was arrested (1945) and interned (1945–1946) by the British military government as a burden of Nazism. In the subsequent denazification process, he was classified in 1947 in the most unfavorable category III in the mass proceedings. He was rated as an “activist”, “militarist” and “war criminal” and described as a “brutal, violent person with an unlimited need for recognition”. For his part, he described the members of the committee as "rags he wanted to hit in the face." In 1949 the picture had turned. In the appeal proceedings it was now said, "from the affidavits and from the testimony of the witnesses interrogated" it emerges "beyond any doubt" that he was "politically ... not interested at all and ... above all as a Nazi did not appear". Now he came into the follower category IV, but had to pay “fees” of DM 1,000. Five decades later, the political scientist Gerhard Hufnagel came to the conclusion that Waldrich had willingly made his work and his social capital available to the Nazi regime in a paper that was developed and financed by the Siegerland's metal industry employers' associations and which included numerous business portraits.

In 1954, Waldrich founded Kabelschlepp GmbH in Siegen as a subsidiary of Waldrich Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik, the object of which was the patent for energy chains made of steel and which has today developed into a so-called global player with foreign representatives and subsidiaries in over 50 countries.

Awards

In 1933 Waldrich received the honorary title of Dr.-Ing. E. h. of the Technical University of Karlsruhe , and since 1950 he was an " honorary citizen " of the Technical University of Aachen . He was appointed military manager and his company was awarded the title “National Socialist Model Company”. In 1943 he received the First Class War Merit Cross.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Regional dictionary of persons on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, article Oskar Waldrich .
  2. ^ Regional dictionary of persons on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, article Oskar Waldrich .
  3. ^ Regional dictionary of persons on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, article Oskar Waldrich .
  4. ^ Gerhard Hufnagel, Interest and Responsibility, Siegen 2000, p. 414f.
  5. ↑ Sachon specialist journal archive ( PDF ).
  6. ↑ Regional personal dictionary on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, article Oskar Waldrich ; Waldrich, Siegen. Large machine tools. Festschrift for Oskar Waldrich on his 80th birthday on June 3, 1960, undated 1960.
personal data
SURNAME Waldrich, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldrich, EH Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1880
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1967
Place of death Limburg on the Lahn