Wilhelm Renner (manager, 1890)

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Wilhelm Renner (born January 15, 1890 in Mutterstadt , † September 18, 1952 in Stuttgart ) was a German manager.

Life

Renner was born as the eldest son of Elisabeth. Schorr and Johannes Renner were born. His father was a part-time farmer and agricultural machinery entrepreneur.

After leaving school, he did an apprenticeship as a mechanic and in 1908 he passed the electrical engineering exam at the Mannheim Engineering School. After a short career in the Palatinate, he went to Berlin and in 1910 became an engineer at Julius Pintsch AG in Berlin. He returned from the First World War as a sergeant in the reserve. Until 1926 he still worked for Julius Pintsch AG. This was followed by a position as a department manager at the Berlin engineering office Koch und Kienzle .

In spring 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP , membership number 1,773,279.

From January 1, 1934, he worked for the Leipzig-based HASAG , a major armaments company. Renner soon rose to the position of Operations Director and Director of Social Affairs. He was a close confidante of Paul Budin . Renner was one of the co-developers of the Panzerfaust .

He became the Wehrwirtschaftsführer appointed and was also lieutenant of the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) , member of the National Socialist Air Corps (NSFK) and had those of the SA similar ranks .

After the Second World War he moved to his native mother city in the Palatinate. There was no denazification . After working as an unskilled worker, he became director of the Mey & Edlich men's underwear factory in Ulm in 1950 . The following year he moved to Leinfelden near Stuttgart.

Renner died in 1952 of complications from a heart attack. He had been married to Irene Merling from Berlin since 1929. The daughter Hannelore Kohl , who later became the wife of Chancellor Helmut Kohl , emerged from the marriage.

Web links

literature

  • Heribert Schwan: The woman at his side. Life and suffering of Hannelore Kohl . Munich 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heribert Schwan: The woman at his side: Life and suffering of Hannelore Kohl . Heyne Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-641-05846-3 , pp. 320 .
personal data
SURNAME Renner, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Mother city
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1952
Place of death Stuttgart