Otto Eberhardt

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Otto Eberhardt (* 1890 ; † January 31, 1939 ) was a German economic functionary, NSDAP district economic advisor and military economic leader .

Eberhardt was the mine director of A. Riebeck'sche Montanwerke in Halle . In 1928 he became the mine director of a montan wax factory in Karlsbad . On January 1, 1932, he joined the NSDAP , where he acted as head of the economy of the Thuringian Gauleitung.

In 1936, Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler appointed Eberhardt to the Thuringian State Council, in 1937 to SS-Sturmbannführer and then to Obersturmbannführer. On January 30, 1938, he was appointed military economist. After the annexation of Austria , he checked the antimony and manganese deposits there for their usability in the Thuringian armaments industry . As “Aryanization Commissioner” he played an important role from 1938 on in the “ Aryanization ” organized plundering of Jewish entrepreneurs in Thuringia. Due to their joint captivity in France during the First World War, Eberhardt was closely connected to the later NSDAP Gauleiter Fritz Sauckel as well as the chairman of the board, later chairman of the board of directors of Dresdner Bank , Carl Goetz , and was involved in numerous aryanization activities. Eberhardt enriched himself and his family to a considerable extent, for example in the case of the Aryanization of Flesch-Werke AG, in which he and Goetz acquired the company for well below its value for 100,000 RM each, and two years later with a profit of 120 percent for sale to the Chemnitz company Zschimmer & Schwarz.

From 1934 Eberhardt was a regional economic advisor to the NSDAP in the Thuringian region . He also held the following offices in Thuringia: Head of the Gauamt for the four-year plan, Managing Director of the Fritz Sauckel Foundation, Commissioner for the "Aryanization", member of the state government, representative of Thuringia in Berlin, Deputy Chairman of the Thuringian State Bank and Chairman of the Gustloff Foundation . In addition, the owner of the United Thuringian Saltworks OHG, with saltworks in Stotternheim , Oberilm and Bad Salzungen , was represented in various companies, as chairman of Thüringische Zellwolle AG in Schwarza , as a member of the supervisory board of Hansa Mühle AG in Hamburg , Braunkohlenwerke Bruckdorf AG, the NSU Werke AG in Neckarsulm , the Triumph Werke AG in Nuremberg , the Thüringische Landeshypothekenbank and the Thüringische Rohstoff AG in Weimar , as a member of the advisory board of Dresdner Bank for Central Germany and at Alpha Lint GmbH.

He died in a car accident in 1939 and was buried in a state funeral in Belvedere near Weimar with the participation of prominent Thuringian economists .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thuringian Main State Archive Weimar
  2. ^ The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945 (collection of sources) Volume 2: German Reich 1938 - August 1939 (edited by Susanne Heim ), Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58523-0 , document 97, p. 293f
  3. ↑ Ulrike Schulz: Simson From the improbable survival of a company 1856-1993 . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1256-2 , p. 170
personal data
SURNAME Eberhardt, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager and military leader
DATE OF BIRTH 1890
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1939