Wilhelm Ferdinand Kalle

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Wilhelm Kalle jun. (1904)
Kalle as a student in Erlangen, 1894

Wilhelm (Jakob) Ferdinand Kalle (born February 19, 1870 in Biebrich am Rhein , † September 7, 1954 in Wiesbaden ) was a German chemist, industrialist and politician (DVP). For many years he was general director of the Kalle chemical factory as well as a member of the Reichstag and Prussian state parliament.

Life

Kalle was born as the son of chemical manufacturer Wilhelm Kalle . His cousin was the officer and politician Arnold Kalle . After attending secondary school in Biebrich and grammar school in Wiesbaden, he studied at the University of Geneva and the Kaiser-Wilhelms-University in Strasbourg , where he became a member of the Corps Rhenania . When he was inactive , he studied chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen and the Technische Hochschule Dresden . After completing his doctorate in the disciplines of natural sciences and engineering, he became a partner in the Kalle and Co. chemical factory in Biebrich in 1897. With the transformation of the family business into a stock corporation , Kalle became general director in 1904. After being incorporated into IG Farben , he moved to the IG's administrative board on January 1, 1926, and at the same time took over the chairmanship of Kalle's supervisory board.

In addition to his entrepreneurial activity, Kalle was also politically active. After the First World War he joined the German People's Party (DVP) founded by Gustav Stresemann . From 1919 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament . He then sat in the Reichstag (Weimar Republic) from 1924 to 1932 . During the Second World War he disclosed Zyklon B developments within IG Farben to the USA through Erwin Respondek . He was therefore not charged in the IG Farben trial . In 1951 he moved from his previous place of residence Tutzing to Wiesbaden, where he also died.

His written estate is in the Wiesbaden City Archives (in the WA 3 - Kalle-Albert works archive).

Honors

Arthur von Weinberg (Cassella) Carl Müller (BASF) Edmund ter Meer (WEILER-ter MEER) Adolf Haeuser (HOECHST) Franz Oppenheim (AGFA) Theodor Plieninger (GRIESHEIM-ELEKTRON) Ernst von Simson (AGFA) Carl Bosch, Vorstandsvorsitzender (BASF) Walther vom Rath (HOECHST) Wilhelm Ferdinand Kalle (KALLE) Carl von Weinberg (CASELLA) Carl Duisberg, Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender (BAYER)
Supervisory board of IG Farben AG, founded in 1925, including Carl Bosch and Carl Duisberg (both front seats)
  • 1913: Dr.-Ing. E. h. of the Technical University of Dresden
  • 1923: Dr.-Ing. E. h. of the Technical University of Munich
  • Honorary member of the Corps Rhenania Strasbourg
  • 1953: Honorary citizen of Wiesbaden

See also

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Ludwig Degener / Walter Habel: Who is who? The German WHO's WHO , Berlin 1928.
  2. ↑ Grete Ronge:  Kalle, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , pp. 65-68 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Ernst Rudolf Huber : German Constitutional History since 1789 , Vol. 7, Stuttgart 1984, p. 182.
  4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 100/134.
  5. ↑ On the conversion of naphthalene derivatives into o-oxy-o-toluic acid and into p-oxy-o-toluic acid and on some derivatives of these acids , dissertation, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1894, K. b. Hofbuchdruckerei by Aug. Vollrath 1895, 28 pages.
  6. ↑ ARTE documentation on Erwin Respondek, 31-33 and 41-50 min .
  7. ↑ Personal and Hochschulnachrichten, in: Angewandte Chemie 36/340 (1923).
personal data
SURNAME Kalle, Wilhelm Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kalle, Wilhelm Jakob Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist, industrialist and politician (DVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Biebrich on the Rhine
DATE OF DEATH 7th September 1954
Place of death Tutzing