Wilhelm Tengelmann

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Wilhelm Tengelmann (born June 11, 1901 in Essen , † July 5, 1949 in Berchtesgaden ) was a German mining assessor , entrepreneur and Nazi functionary.

Life

Wilhelm Tengelmann was the son of the entrepreneur Ernst Tengelmann , his brother was the mine director Walter Tengelmann (1898–1981). He completed his school career in 1918 with the Abitur in Essen . At the end of the First World War he was still a midshipman in the Imperial Navy . After the war he was a member of the Ehrhardt Marine Brigade from February 1919 to January 1920 . With the rank of ensign in the sea, he was discharged from the army at the end of May 1920 and was a member of the staff of general and leader of the Upper Silesian self-protection Karl Hoefer from May 1921 to June 1921 .

Tengelmann completed a degree in mining at the universities of Würzburg , Freiburg im Breisgau , Berlin and Clausthal , while studying he received practical training in mining facilities. Since 1921 he was a member of the Corps Rhenania Freiburg . After completing his studies he was a mountain trainee in 1926 and a mountain assessor in 1929. After several mining-related activities, he was a member of the board of directors of Bergwerks AG in Gelsenkirchen and the board of directors of the Monopol mine in Kamen from September 1931 .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he was initially provisional and finally officially from March 1933 to October 1933 district administrator in the Unna district . In this function, he had 489 KPD functionaries arrested in the Unna district on April 12, 1933 , some of whom were brought to the newly created Schönhausen concentration camp and who were subjected to severe abuse while in protective custody . By the end of August 1933, almost 1,000 communists, social democrats, trade unionists and Jews were arrested in the Unna district and transferred to the Schönhausen concentration camp. Tengelmann, who had been a member of the NSDAP since the beginning of October 1930 ( membership number 322.112), then became the Prussian Prime Minister's agent for economic issues at Hermann Göring . He was a military economist . Tengelmann was made an honorary SS-Sturmbannführer in 1934. At the end of January 1935 he became SS (SS No. 53.091) SS-Obersturmbannführer .

From October 1934 Tengelmann was (initially deputy) chairman of the board and general director of the mining company Hibernia in Herne . He was a member of the supervisory and executive boards of many companies, such as Henkel & Cie AG in Düsseldorf and Henschel Flugzeugwerke AG in Berlin . Tengelmann ran unsuccessfully in the Reichstag election on April 10, 1938 .

After the end of the war, Tengelmann was questioned by the Allies , but not prosecuted. He was able to continue his entrepreneurial career because he was head of a company founded by his ancestors and not aryanized .

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  1. ↑ a b c Walther Killy: Dictionary of German Biography. Volume 9: Schmidt-Theyer. De Gruyter Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-23299-3 , p. 696.
  2. ↑ Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 295.
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 129 , 939
  4. ^ A b Wolfgang Stelbrink: The Prussian District Administrator in National Socialism: Studies on National Socialist Personnel and Administrative Policy at District Level. Waxmann, 1998, ISBN 3-89325-571-0 , p. 438.
  5. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 619.
  6. ^ Heino Baues: Schönhausen Concentration Camp - Nazis drove Rünther to death. In: WAZ. 3rd February 2012.
  7. ^ Wilhelm Tengelmann. at www.dws-xip.pl
  8. ↑ Erich Stockhorst : 5000 heads. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 , pp. 419-420.
  9. ^ Herve Joly: Continuity and discontinuity of the industrial elite after 1945 . In: Dieter Ziegler (Ed.): Upper citizens and entrepreneurs. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-35682-X , p. 66.
personal data
SURNAME Tengelmann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, mountain assessor, Nazi functionary
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1949
Place of death Berchtesgaden