Willy Schlieker

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Willy H. Schlieker (born January 28, 1914 in Hamburg ; † July 12, 1980 in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden ) was a major German industrialist .

Visit of the Schlieker shipyard during a state visit by Archbishop Makarios III. (Center) in Hamburg 1962; left: Willy Schlieker.

Life

Schlieker was born the son of a Hamburg shipyard worker and boiler maker. In the 1930s he gained international experience as a sales representative in Haiti and the Balkans . He then worked as head of the steel sector in the Reich Ministry for Armaments and Munitions of Albert Speer .

In 1946 he advised the British on industrial reconstruction in Germany. His ascent began with the purchase of a share in the former Silesian wholesale company Otto H. Krause together with Franz H. Kirchfeld in 1948. However, Kirchfeld founded his own company as early as the 1950s and left the joint company.

Schlieker bought the Neviges rolling mill and was the first to set up electrical sheet production based on the Dimax process he had developed , which enabled the strip production of seam-welded electrical sheets . Since he recognized and used the opportunity early on, the "coal-iron business" , he succeeded in building up his own group of iron processing, iron trading and at times 15 shipyards in which ore carriers, oil tankers and naval escort ships were built. He paid, along with other former employees, to a fund set up by Rudolf Wolters in 1948, which supported Speer's family with a total volume of DM 150,000 until his release from prison in 1966.

Under the umbrella of Willy H. Schlieker KG Hamburg-Düsseldorf , a group with 25 subsidiaries was created that employed up to 7,000 people. He crowned this in 1952 by taking over the Ottensener Eisenwerke , which consisted of a foundry and a shipyard in which his father had once worked as a boiler maker. Schlieker converted it into one of the most modern shipyards, the Schlieker shipyard , in which small warships were also built. Schlieker was one of the “economic miracle boys” who, like Max Grundig , Gustav Schickedanz , Josef Neckermann and Carl FW Borgward, were inseparable from the myth of the German economic miracle . 1961 its group of companies reached an annual turnover of US $ 200 million in fine Hamburger circles, but also in the steel and shipbuilding sector in the Ruhr and Saar was Schlieker as outsiders and nouveau riche upstart who only have a small equity position possessed and which the banks in 1962, when Schlieker got into a liquidity crisis, his entire line of credit was immediately withdrawn and he asked to close out his loans, whereupon Schlieker had no choice but to file for bankruptcy .

Schlieker then lived in his wife's hunting lodge in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden . He was still active as a management consultant, sat on the supervisory board of the aircraft manufacturer Dornier and devoted himself to the development of the Ramsau ski area " Hochschwarzeck ".

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magnus Brechtken: Albert Speer. A German career . Siedler Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8275-0040-3 , p. 313f.
  2. ↑ Not even the name stayed . u. a. on Schlieker's stay in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden in: Die Zeit , No. 10/1966.
  3. ↑ Tim Schanetzky : Review of: Tilly, Richard: Willy H. Schlieker. Rise and fall of an entrepreneur (1914–1980) . Berlin 2008. In: H-Soz-u-Kult , March 17, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Schlieker, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlieker, Willy H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1980
Place of death Ramsau near Berchtesgaden