Wilhelm Biedenkopf
Wilhelm Biedenkopf (born June 9, 1900 in Chemnitz , † 1996 or 1997 ) was a German chemical engineer and manager in the chemical industry . He was the father of the CDU politician and former Saxon Prime Minister Kurt Biedenkopf .
Life
Wilhelm Biedenkopf studied at the Technical University of Darmstadt and graduated with the academic degree of graduate engineer . He has been a member of the Corps Chattia Darmstadt student association in the WSC since his student days .
During the National Socialist era, Biedenkopf was the technical director of the Buna-Werke and at the same time director of the parent company, IG Farbenindustrie AG . He carried the honorary title of military economist and was awarded the Knight's Cross for the War Merit Cross.
At the end of the 1960s he was a board member of Dynamit Nobel AG in Troisdorf and a member of the advisory board of Dyna-Plastik-Werk GmbH in Bergisch Gladbach . He also sat on the board of the German Society for Chemical Apparatus ( DECHEMA ) in Frankfurt am Main .
Biedenkopf took on leading positions in various specialist institutions. He belonged to the working ring of the employers' associations of the West German Chemical Industry. V. in Wiesbaden .
Prices
- 1970: DECHEMA medal
Web links
- Entry in the Brown Book ( memento from November 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Wehrwirtschaftsführer
- Knight's Cross to the War Merit Cross
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sven Siedenberg: My father. "He saved me the Volkssturm." In: FOCUS , No. 32/2013 of August 5, 2013.
- ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who ? The German who's who. 15th edition, Berlin 1967, p. 135.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Biedenkopf, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemical engineer and manager in the chemical industry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |