Wehrwirtschaftsführer
Wehrwirtschaftsführer (WeWiFü) was an honorary title in the National Socialist German Reich , which was awarded to the heads of armaments companies as part of the awards of the NSDAP .
The Wehrwirtschaftsführer were appointed from 1935 by the Defense Economics and Armaments Office in the OKW . The intention was to bind them to the Wehrmacht and to give them a quasi-military status. After 1938 the appointment was made by the Reich Ministry of Economics . From 1940, leading representatives of non-armaments companies were also awarded this title more and more often in order to document the conversion of the companies to the needs of the war economy. In the case of appointments made before 1940 in particular, the title hardly says anything about the owner's political proximity to the Nazi regime or the importance of his company in the armaments industry. An appointment as military economist made it easier to worsen labor law conditions for workers and employees in the company concerned.
Wehrwirtschaftsführer (selection)
A total of around 400 people were appointed military economic leaders, including:
- Wilhelm eighth
- Ludwig doctor
- Hanns Benkert
- Wilhelm Biedenkopf
- August Bode ( Wegmann & Co. )
- Hans Constantin Boden ( AEG )
- Walter Borbet , Chairman of the Board and General Director of the Bochumer Verein mining group
- Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward ( Borgward Works)
- William Borm
- Carl Bosch ( IG Farben )
- Max Brose
- Richard Bruhn ( Auto Union )
- Heinrich Bütefisch ( IG Farben )
- August Diehn ( German Potash Certificate )
- Richard-Eugen Dörr (1896–1975)
- Carl Martin Dolezalek
- Claude Dornier
- Hugo Eckener (1939)
- Gerhard Fieseler (Gerhard Fieseler Works)
- Otto Fitzner (Business Group Non-Ferrous Metals)
- Friedrich Flick
- Edmund Geilenberg
- Walter Georgii (meteorologist)
- Paul Goerens
- Otto Heinrich Graf von Hagenburg , supplier for the aircraft industry in Sonthofen
- Ernst Heinkel
- Jost Henkel
- Werner Heynen
- Eduard Houdremont
- Heinrich Hunke
- Robert Kabelac
- Willy Kaus
- Moritz Klönne
- Otto Koehn ( AEG )
- Gustav Koellmann
- Carl Krauch
- Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach
- Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach
- Friedrich Linde
- Friedrich Lüschen
- Karl Emanuel Merck ( Merck KGaA )
- Otto Merker
- Wilhelm Emil Messerschmitt
- Johannes Müller (Junkers)
- Heinrich Nordhoff
- Heinrich Notz
- Hans Constantin Paulssen
- Waldemar Petersen ( AEG )
- Ernst Poensgen
- Ferdinand Porsche
- Günther Quandt
- Karl Quasebeard
- Wilhelm Renner (HASAG)
- Otto Reuleaux
- Fritz Reuther
- Waldemar Rienäcker
- Hermann Röchling
- Willy Sachs
- Eduard Schalfejew
- Robert H. Schmidt, CEO of Ford Germany
- Heinz Schmid-Lossberg
- Philipp Alois von Schoeller
- Eduard Schulte
- Hermann from Siemens
- Hans-Günther Sohl
- Franz Stapelfeldt
- Kurt Tank
- Herbert Tengelmann
- Hermann Terberger
- Arthur Tix
- Emil Tscheulin
- Wilhelm Voss
- Hans Wendel ( AEG )
- Ludger Westrick
- Wolf-Dietrich von Witzleben (Siemens)
- Ernst Zindel (Junkers)
See also
literature
- Klaus Drobisch : Documents about the history and character of the fascist Wehrwirtschaftsführer-Korps . In: Zeitschrift für Militärgeschichte 5, 1966, pp. 323–337, ISSN 0044-3115 .
- Jens Ulrich Heine: Name and origin of the military economic leaders of the German Reich on January 1, 1942. 1976, bundesarchiv.de
Web links
- Braunbuch : War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and in West Berlin . Edited by National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany, 1968. List of Wehrwirtschaftsführer ( Memento from November 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) via Internet Archive
- Cornelia Rauh-Kühne: Military economic leader in the NS . In: H-Soz-u-Kult , July 1, 2002
- Definition of terms from the encyclopedia of National Socialism
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Erker and Toni Pierenkemper: German entrepreneurs between the war economy and reconstruction: Studies on the formation of experience by industrial elites , Oldenbourg, 1999, ISBN 978-3-486-56363-4 . P. 5.
- ^ Gustav-Hermann Seebold : A steel company in the Third Reich - The Bochumer Association 1927–1945. Peter Hammer Verlag Wuppertal 1981, p. 242.
- ^ Manfred Overesch: Bosch in Hildesheim 1937–1945: Free Entrepreneurship and National Socialist Armaments Policy . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-36754-4 .
- ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 404.
- ^ Simon Reich: Ford's Research Efforts in Assessing the Activities of its Subsidiary in Nazi Germany . Pittsburgh PA 2001, p. 30.