Rudolf Bingel

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Rudolf Bingel (born June 2, 1882 in Wiesbaden , † September 22, 1945 in the special camp Landsberg an der Warthe ) was CEO of Siemens-Schuckertwerke .

Family and education

His father Christian Bingel (born February 15, 1850, † May 26, 1905) ran an inn and came to Wiesbaden from Langschied in the Lower Taunus . His mother Marie Diefenbach (1847-1924) came from Laufenselden . After training in electrical engineering, he attended the engineering school in Bingen from 1904 to 1907 , from which he graduated as an engineer. In 1904 he married Frieda Joost, daughter of the hairdresser Karl Joost (1850–1904) and his wife Josefine Schmitt, although the marriage remained childless.

Career at Siemens-Schuckert

His first job on August 1, 1907 at the Rheinische Siemens-Schuckert works took him to Mannheim . After being appointed chief engineer in 1909, he specialized in the construction of electrically operated cranes and their drives. After that, in 1913, he was made head of the Industry Department. A year later he was granted power of attorney and appointed to the technical director.

In the following years he worked in various positions at the company and acquired relevant knowledge. So he could soon take on the duties of a director. He came to Berlin on October 1, 1924 as a deputy member of the board. In addition to the management role in the Industry Department, which he led with Otto Krell , he was also appointed Head of the Shipbuilding Department in 1926.

In 1927 he was appointed a full member of the Siemens-Schuckert Management Board on November 11th. The TH Braunschweig awarded him the title of Dr.-Ing. honorary. He was appointed deputy chairman of the board in 1937. Two years later, he took over the management of the company as chairman of the board in 1939. Obviously, his character traits of leading people and gaining an eye for the essentials quickly promoted him to this leadership position.

Today the name “Bingelhaus” of the building at Werner-von-Siemens Str. 67, Erlangen, is reminiscent of Bingel. In keeping with Bingel's former service tasks, there are departments from the Siemens industrial sector in the building.

Cooperation with the armaments industry

The beginning of the Second World War soon led to the first concrete contacts with the Wehrmacht in the field of the war economy. On December 18, 1939, for example, he took part in a meeting with the head of the Armed Forces and Armaments Office in the High Command of the Wehrmacht (OKW), to which Major General Georg Thomas had invited to a lecture on the uniform management of the armaments industry.

The list of invited participants testified to the importance of this event: Paul Pleiger (Reichswerke AG "Hermann Göring"), Walter Borbet ( Bochumer Verein für Gußstahlfabrikation AG ), August Kotthaus (Carl Zeiss Jena), Bernhard Unholtz (Vereinigte Deutsche Metallwerke AG) , Ewald Hecker ( Ilseder Hütte AG ), Martin Blank (Gutehoffnungshütte AG), Hermann Bücher (AEG), Heinrich Koppenberg ( Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke ), Hellmuth Roehnert (Rheinmetall-Borsig AG), Rudolf Siedersleben ( Otto Wolff Group ) , Wilhelm Kissel ( Daimler-Benz AG ) and other important business leaders.

In his statement, Bingel emphasized that the electrical industry would play a key role in the armaments industry. Any disruption or delay in this area would affect other industrial operations. That is why he believes that the continuous award of contracts and the standardization of management of the war economy are of particular importance to the electrical industry. He pointed out the maintenance of production reserves. Because without these reserves for the possibilities to balance production, such a complex apparatus would not be sustainable.

Bingel was also appointed to the division of the Reichsgruppe Industrie (RI). In this capacity he took part in a meeting of the RI on March 27, 1940, where the relationship between the RI and Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition Fritz Todt was discussed. Numerous heads and managing directors of the Reich Chamber of Commerce, the RI and the various economic groups were present, including Wilhelm Zangen (RI), Rudolf Stahl (RI), Albert Pietzsch (Reich Chamber of Commerce ), Philipp Keßler (Iron and Steel Association), Helmut Roehnert and Walter Borbet.

Bingel said at the meeting that he had got a good impression of Todt from a conversation with him. This would have no preconceived ideas and would have "common sense". Bingel suggested so-called sponsorships to Todt, under which one would understand a special merger between general contractors and a working group.

Support group to the Reichsführer SS

Bingel's important position in German industry and above all in the armaments industry also aroused the interest of the SS. Through Friedrich Kranefuss , he had contacts with the Friends of the Reichsführer SS . Bingel was able to raise donations for this facility. The banker Kurt von Schröder wrote to Heinrich Himmler on September 21, 1943 that Bingel had transferred a donation of 100,000 Reichsmarks to the special “S” account.

In the Nuremberg trial , the head of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (SS-WVHA), Oswald Pohl , stated in an affidavit dated August 5, 1946 that he knew Bingel personally from his office. He stated that Bingel had negotiated the deployment of prisoners with SS-Obergruppenführer Richard Glücks , who was the head of Office Group D in the SS-WVHA.

Bingel was arrested by Russian troops in Berlin in 1945 and transported to the Ketschendorf special camp . He then came to Landsberg an der Warthe , where he died in September 1945.

Membership in supervisory boards and companies

  • On the board of the Deutsches Museum from 1942 to 1945
  • Nederlandsche Apparate Frabrik Loneker (Hegelo)
  • Ore company for the development of non-ferrous metals (Berlin)
  • Hamburg-Amerika Paketfahrt AG (HAPAG) (Hamburg)
  • On the board of the Association of German Ironworkers (Düsseldorf), today's steel institute VDEh

Fonts

  • Development lines of economical electric motor drives in industry. In: VDI magazine. 1930, pp. 848-864.
  • The electricity in the task area of ​​the German technology. Leipzig 1938.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nuremberg Document NI 382, ​​literally from H. Schumann: SS in action .


personal data
SURNAME Bingel, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION CEO of Siemens-Schuckertwerke
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1945
Place of death Landsberg on the Warta