Wolfgang Pohl (civil servant)

Wolfgang Rudolf Bernhard Pohl (born April 24, 1897 in Breslau , Lower Silesia , † 1962 in Berlin-Zehlendorf ) was a German ministerial official and economic manager.

Life

He was the second son of Carl Pohl and Helene Schiemann (sister of Max Schiemann and aunt of Günther Schiemann ). Pohl studied from 1917 at the Humboldt University of Berlin , where he in 1921 under Heinrich Herkner Dr. rer. pole. received his doctorate . He then worked in the social policy department of AEG until 1933 . In addition, from 1922 he also worked in the editorial department for social policy at the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and from 1927 as a consultant in the Reich Ministry of Economics .

In 1933 he became department head in the Reich Ministry of Labor , and since the end of 1933 personal advisor for social issues to the head of staff of the highest party leadership of the NSDAP , Robert Ley . In the same year he was promoted to Ministerial Council . In the following year (1934) he became a ministerial director , and in 1935 he joined the Reich Ministry of Economics as such . A year later (1936) he became head of the " Ergonomics Institute " (AWI) of the DAF . Around 1941 he resigned as Ministerialdirektor zD. Pohl was seen as ambitious and career-conscious and had contacts with a wide variety of institutions in the Nazi state.

Pohl was then chairman of the Preussische Elektrizitäts-AG in Berlin and the Nordwestdeutsche Kraftwerke AG in Hamburg . He was also a member of the supervisory board of several electricity supply companies.

After the Second World War he was arrested in 1945 by the Allies in the Soviet Zone and sentenced to 20 years in prison (served until January 1956) by the Chemnitz regional court. Then he moved to West Berlin, where he was getting worse mentally and physically. Finally, he died in 1962 in his house in Berlin-Zehlendorf.

Pohl married Ilse Seeger on September 10, 1926 in Berlin , the daughter of the painter Hermann Seeger and Marie Cramer von Clausbruch , sister of the officer Rudolf Cramer von Clausbruch (1864-1916), and the niece of Rudolf Otto Caesar .

From this marriage came a daughter and four sons.

literature

• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 153 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
• Daniela Kahn: The control of the economy by law in National Socialist Germany . 2006, ISBN 978-3-465-04012-5 , p. 519 [1]
• Irene Raehlmann: Industrial Science in National Socialism . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14678-5 , p. 140 [2]
• Tilla Siegel: The German Labor Front and the German “performance community”, in this: performance and wages in the National Socialist “order of work”. Springer, Berlin 1989 ISBN 9783663122159 , pp. 62-124

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Pohl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Newspaper article about Wolfgang Pohl in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1999. Journal for Social History of the 20th and 21st Century , Volume 4, Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century (ed.), 1989, page 11 ( excerpt )
2. ^ Rüdiger Hachtmann: Petty bourgeois potbelly and broad bourgeois chest. On the social composition of the leadership elite of the German Labor Front . In: Ursula Bitzegeio, Anja Kruke, Meik Woyke (eds.): Solidarity community and culture of remembrance in the 20th century. Contributions to trade unions, National Socialism and history politics . Dietz, 2009, p. 250 Note .