Paul Kleinewefers

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Paul Kleinewefers (born January 22, 1905 in Krefeld ; † December 18, 2001 ) was a German entrepreneur , patron and writer in Krefeld.

Life

Kleinewefers studied mechanical engineering at the technical universities of Karlsruhe and Hanover . In Karlsruhe he became active in the Corps Frisia . After completing his studies as a graduate engineer, he took over the management of the family company Joh. Kleinewefers Söhne Maschinenfabrik in Krefeld in 1929 as managing partner. He was a member of the Tat group. In August 1932 he joined the NSDAP as a member. When Hitler's speech to the Industry Club Dusseldorf he was among those present. He writes about this in his memoirs:

“For me, who had the whole hall in front of me, it was extremely interesting to see how the people who initially sat there with mask-like faces, the leading men of German industry, were changed from quarter to quarter of an hour by Hitler's speech. Only very few have kept their reserved manner to the end. The vast majority became more and more fascinated and went with them more and more. There was more and more applause. At the end of the speech, which lasted almost two hours and in which Hitler exhausted himself completely, there was uninhibited constant applause. "

His company also employed slave labor during the Second World War .

After the Second World War, Kleinewefers devoted himself to rebuilding his company. In 1991 the company had a turnover of around 500 million DM and had around 2,000 employees.

After retiring from the company, he founded the Adalbert Foundation in 1989 , which initially bore his name. He was an honorary senator of the University of Karlsruhe and winner of the Diesel Medal in gold. He was a member of the Academic Aviation Group Karlsruhe .

Kleinewefers wrote two books about the time of the Weimar Republic and about the future of a reunited Europe.

In 1961, Kleinewefers acquired the Heydevelthof and modernized it. He and his wife Eva (1909–1979) had five children, including Jan Kleinewefers , former president of the VDMA , who continued the company.

Fonts

  • Paul Kleinewefers: 100 years of Kleinewefers 1862–1962. On new paths. Wiesbaden 1962.
  • Paul Kleinwefers: The time was just right. In: Guido Knopp , Bernd Wiegmann: Why didn't you prevent Hitler? Questions to the powerful and the powerless. Fischer, 1983, ISBN 359623476X
  • Paul Kleinewefers: Born in 1905. A report on the current and economic situation. First edition, Stuttgart, 1977. Fourth edition, 1984, ISBN 978-3512004834
  • Bernard Willms , Paul Kleinewefers: Renewal from the center. Prague, Vienna, Berlin. This side of east and west. Herford, Verlag Busse + Seewald, 1988, ISBN 978-3512008252

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives in NRW
  2. ^ Address list of Weinheimer SC, 1928, p. 232
  3. ↑ a b c Otto Schile: Obituary. In: Akaflieg Karlsruhe, Annual Report 2001. ( online ( Memento of the original dated June 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.akaflieg.uni-karlsruhe.de
  4. ↑ DKP Krefeld / Viersen: The fruits of evil. About the Adalbert Foundation and its award winners. ( http://www.dkp-krefeld.de/index.php/krefeld/112-die-fruechte-des-boesen.html ( Memento from December 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) )
  5. ^ Paul Kleinewefers: Born in 1905. A report on the current and economic situation. Stuttgart 1977, p. 76.
  6. ↑ When the Senator tells ... In: Linker Niederrhein, No. 18, March / April 1995 ( http://www.dkp-krefeld.de/index.php/krefeld/113-wenn-der-senator-erzaehlt- .html ( Memento from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) )
  7. ↑ Jan Kleinewefers in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  8. ^ Church in the Diocese of Aachen: History of the Heydevelthof. ( online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) From 1980 to 2005 the farm was used by the diocese as a "meeting place for meetings" Aachen used@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kirche-im-bistum-aachen.de  
  9. ↑ Homepage Heidevelthof / History ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.akademie-heydevelthof.de
personal data
SURNAME Kleinewefers, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, patron and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 2001