Werner Heynen

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Werner Heynen (born April 3, 1895 in Moers , † June 2, 1969 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) was a National Socialist German weapons developer and armaments manager.

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As a graduate engineer , Heynen was hired in July 1935 as technical manager at the Berlin-Suhler weapons and vehicle works , which had taken over weapons production from Simson & Co. KG . As a manager, he was particularly involved in the expropriation of the Simson family. Subsequently, from 1936 to 1945 he was director of the weapons factory in Suhl and a member of the board of directors of the National Socialist Wilhelm Gustloff Industrial Foundation in Weimar. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Gustloffwerke pension fund. From 1937 he was a formal member of the NSDAP and from 1938 military economic leader . He became chairman of the main committee on automatic weapons in the Speer Ministry.

The Spanish Lieutenant Colonel Ignacio Moyano Araiztegui, former military attaché in Berlin, and José Hegea Gonzales, Spanish Consul General in Hamburg, offered him in 1949 to head a development group with German designers in Franco-Spanish Spain . The Mauser 06H rifle, which was developed in Germany from 1944 until the end of the war, was to be further developed under Heynen's direction . Heynen recruited Ludwig Vorgrimler , who was working for the French at the time. From January 1950, the first employees from the British and American occupation zones in Spain were involved in development work. In the 1950s he was head of the German design group at the Centro de Estudios Técnicos de Materiales Especiales for the development of the CETME assault rifle , a predecessor of the G3 of the Bundeswehr.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register, registry office Moers, No. 52/1895
  2. ↑ Death register, registry office Heidenheim an der Brenz, No. 366/1969
  3. ↑ Ulrike Schulz: Simson From the improbable survival of a company 1856-1993 . Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1256-2 , p. 189
  4. ^ Albert Presas i Puig: German scientists and specialists in Spain: Continuities and upheavals in: Continuities and discontinuities in the history of science in the 20th century, edited by Rüdiger Vom Bruch, Uta Gerhardt, Aleksandra Pawliczek Franz Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 2006, p. 161 / 162, limited preview in Google Book search.
  5. ↑ Birgit Aschmann : "Treue Freunde--"?: West Germany and Spain, 1945 to 1963, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 352 [1]
personal data
SURNAME Heynen, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business economist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Moers
DATE OF DEATH 2nd June 1969
Place of death Heidenheim an der Brenz