Wilhelm Voss (military economic leader)

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Wilhelm Voss (born July 1, 1896 in Rostock as Willy Heinrich Louis Voss , † 1978 ) had a doctorate in business management; Furthermore, SS standard leader as well as military economic leader and member of the friends circle Reichsführer SS .

Managerial career in the Nazi state

Wilhelm Voss held numerous positions in the economy in the National Socialist German Reich . He was a co-founder of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring in 1937 and later General Director from 1939 to 1941. As a prominent military leader, he was deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Rheinmetall-Borsig AG in Berlin and chairman of the board of Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand AG in addition to his position at the largest armaments manufacturer .

In occupied Czechoslovakia , from 1938 to 1945, he was President of the Board of Directors of the Czech Škoda Works , which had been incorporated into the Hermann Göring Works in 1938. He also had functions at other arms factories in Czechoslovakia, the "Explosia as" in Prague , the "Waffenwerke Brünn AG" in Brno and the "Synthesia-Chemiewerke Prague". He also became chairman of the Avia AG board of directors for aircraft in Prague.

In Austria he was promoted to chairman of the supervisory board of Simmering-Graz-Pauker AG in Vienna and when Hermann-Göring-Werke took over the majority of the shares in Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG in Steyr in 1938 , he became its chairman. He was also chairman of the supervisory board of Omnipol Handels-AG in Vienna and a member of the supervisory board of Veitscher Magnesitwerke AG in Vienna.

In Italy he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Omnipol SA in Milan .

Post-war career

After the Second World War he was interned in the Czech Republic for eleven months, from which he was released in 1946. In 1951 Wilhelm Voss submitted an application to leave Egypt from Rottach-Egern . Since March 1951, Voss was General Nagib , the first President of Egypt, German chief advisor in the Egyptian Ministry of War. He took up a position as director of the Egyptian missile program and worked there with an extensive staff of specialists whom he had got to know in his various tasks. During his assignment in Egypt , he had been involved in diplomatic initiatives as head of the unofficial German military mission in Cairo .

Voss lost influence after Nagib was ousted by Nasser in February 1954 . He returned to the Federal Republic in the summer of 1956. Further details about his life are not known.

Fonts

  • The small urban settlement as a means of reducing the disadvantageous one-sidedness of urban economy. (Dissertation). Rostock 1918.
  • Nature and meaning of the "working group". In: Archive for exact economic research (Thüne archive), Vol. 9, Jena 1922, pp. 469–502.
  • Social policy as science. Jena 1925.
  • The mandatory revision as part of the reform of company law. Berlin 1927.
  • Auditing and Fiduciary Manual. Stuttgart 1930.
  • The Danube as Greater Germany's transport route to the south. In: Der Vierjahresplan 1939, pp. 320–321.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register of StA Rostock, No. 697/1896
  2. ↑ a b c Secret, private, personal . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1954, pp. 5 ( online ).
  3. ↑ On Skoda tracks . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1955, pp. 13 ( online ).
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personal data
SURNAME Voss, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic manager in the armaments industry during National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH 1978