Wilhelm Haspel

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Wilhelm Haspel (born April 29, 1898 in Stuttgart ; † January 6, 1952 ) was Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler-Benz AG from 1942 to 1952 .

Life

Wilhelm Haspel began studying mechanical engineering at the TH Stuttgart in the winter semester of 1918/19. In the same semester he joined the Ghibellinia fraternity in Stuttgart . Haspel received his doctorate in 1926 on the subject of "Recording of expenses and cost accounting in a plant in the vehicle industry". From 1924 he worked for the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft . In 1927 he took over the management of the Daimler-Benz plant in Sindelfingen. After attacks by the NSDAP against him because of his “ half-Jewish wife”, he was transferred to Untertürkheim at the end of 1935. Haspel was appointed to the board on February 28, 1936, initially as a deputy board member, and from 1941 on as a full board member. After the death of Wilhelm Kissel , he took over the chairmanship of the board in August 1942.

Haspel was not a member of the NSDAP. Haspel was also the only one on the executive board of Mercedes-Benz who had never identified himself “personally and publicly” with the Nazi regime. Among other things, he headed the Daimler-Benz aircraft engine special committee in the Reich Ministry for Armaments and Ammunition .

Due to a denazification process , Haspel had to resign from his position on the board in October 1945. Classified as exonerated in the arbitration chamber proceedings, he was able to take over the chairmanship again in January 1948. In the following years Haspel succeeded in quickly rebuilding Daimler-Benz AG. Wilhelm Haspel died in January 1952 at the age of 53 of a cerebral haemorrhage .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Well-known Ghibellines - Stuttgarter Burschenschaft Ghibellinia . In: Stuttgarter Burschenschaft Ghibellinia . ( ghibellinen.de [accessed November 19, 2017]).
  2. Hans Pohl, Stephanie Habeth, Beate Brüninghaus: Daimler-Benz AG in the years 1933 to 1945 . In: Hans Pohl, Wilhelm Treue (Hrsg.): Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte , supplement 47. Franz Steiner, 1987, ISBN 3-515-04733-6 . P. 18
  3. Neil Gregor: Star and Swastika. Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich. Propylaea, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-549-05604-4 , p. 216.