Friedrich repair (* 10. July 1883 in Kreuztal Ernsdorf; "† 20 July 1972 in Konstanz) was a German entrepreneur. After both world wars it became the richest German.

Its sons were Rudolf, petrol seriousness and Friedrich Karl repair. It lost its third son Rudolf during the Second World War.

Life

Up to the First World War

Friedrich repair came on 10 July 1883 as a son of a farmer and a pit wood dealer in Kreuztal Ernsdorf with victories to the world. Repair visited a six-form high school, teachings completed hut in Weidenau to the buyer with that of Bremen, completed its military service and began a study at the Handelshochschule in Cologne. Since his youth read repair eagerly enterprise balances. Repair was one of the first students, who completed not only a marketing and management study, but also a study of the national economy. One its teacher was there Eugen narrow brook, the inventor of double record keeping. Its first employment got he after it 1906 its diploma as a buyer had received again with that of Bremen hut, 1913 changed it then into the executive committee of the iron company. Its ascent began since 1915 as a member of the board with the in Niederschelden, into which it bought itself with the time. This financed it by profits at enterprises, which he bought too expensive as a member of the board, after he had taken part before in them, or by buying up and to its own company reselling privately scrap iron. In the 1. World war with its arms boom it led the enterprise to large economic successes and became finally 1917 its general manager.

In the Weimar Republic

The attempt a being located in the Ruhr district to provide failed itself first because of the there Industriemagnaten, however it could prevent that this in the winner country were established for its part. Over skillful operating buyings up in Upper Silesia and Central Germany, which he financed by favorable credits owing to the high inflation, it could finally nevertheless secure important coal resources for itself and became around 1930 the largest German heavy schwerindustrielle. Its different enterprises combined it 1929 to Central German steel plants the AG. In addition it became majority owner of the max hut, which provided influence for it with the united steel plants AG and the Harpener mining industry AG, and brought the "gel mountain" (Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG) under its control, which it sold later to the quadruple market price, after it stood briefly in the world economic crisis before the bankruptcy, to the government (gel mountain affair). Into the 1930er years took part he in one of the largest steel producers Germany at that time, the united steel plants AG.

After the sales of the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG 1932 it created the Central German steel plants. It was member of the conservative German gentleman club. In the Weimar Republic he distributed although member of the German people's party, in order to secure itself in each direction, choice donations to different parties. The NSDAP was not with it at the beginning of more badly posed than the other parties there repairs any sympathies Hitler brought and it the occurrence of the party, which stood in the glaring contrast for own occurrence, absties.

In the third realm

After 1933 it concentrated the donations, approximately 100,000 realm Marks in the year, on the NSDAP. It became member of the friend circle realm leader SS. On 20 February 1933 it was invited together with Gustav Krupp by planks and halfoh, George von Schnitzler, Fritz Springorum, Ernst Tengelmann, Albert and other representatives of the German economy to new realm chancellor Adolf Hitler. These wanted to describe its economic policy to the present ones and to vacate doubts at the same time against him from the way. Like that it was much therefore endeavors the image down of the beer tent agitator to put and promised the protection of the private property of the enterprises full against present one the expropriation intentions spoken in its election campaign speeches and their owner. To propel besides more sicherter it to the economic situation and prevent strikes. At the same time more machter it all clearly that the national socialists determined were with all means power actually tear.

After the NSDAP to power had attained sent repairs in the April of the yearly 1933 the supervisory board chairman of the Central German steel plants Heinrich Koppenberg in the realm aviation Ministry. There larger orders were promised to it. In December the structure of the Air Force decided thing was and the company belonging general transportation facilities society received the first orders for the building from airplanes. An order for the production of bombs, shells and ammunition followed in March 1934. To 15. March this yearly visited Friedrich repair the chief of staff of the office for army weapon George Thomas. There it received the information that the national socialists a war planned and which one needs for this case of supplies of weapons and ammunition for one period of four to five months in a discussion in private.

With the "Arisierung" of Jewish enterprises it could increase its wealth further. A cause for it repair particularly from it profited were his good contacts to Hermann As an only German Industrieller support it the plans for the setting up the realm works Hermann It supplied contrary to the enterprises of Rhine and Ruhr hard coal to the competition from salt lattice. But it kept from this the promise which written it with the Arisierung are favoured. An example of it were those Luebeck AG of the Jewish family cock and the iron commercial firm Already 1927 made repair this an offer for the assumption of the company which of these were abgeleht. 1937 it obtained together with the office for army weapon that the company for the price by 3.4 million realm Marks to be taken over could. Three years before the share value had amounted to still 14.3 million.

Besides it profited from the denationalization of the united steel plants AG. 1937 it closed then its enterprises to the Friedrich repairs kg together. Toward end of this yearly busy repair altogether approximately 85,000 coworkers. 1938 and 1939 came further company of Jewish entrepreneurs into the possession of the company. With the assumptions of the coal pits of the Jewish family Petschek it held finally approximately a third of the entire coal reserves of Germany in its hand.

1937 it became NSDAP member and received to 1938 the title of a military industrial leader. Besides it arrived in some large-scale enterprises of the charring, iron and steel industry in the supervisory boards and administrative executive committees. During the Second World War in numerous enterprises Flicks around the 50,000 forced laborers and prisoners from concentration camps were consulted for the hard labour. One of them was also Ignatz Bubis. Estimations proceed from over 10.000 victims, that were maltreated in these years with malnutrition and brutal treatment to death. Also in this point the factories lifted themselves repair Konzers from the other enterprises. The conditions were considered here as extremely bad and the treatments as very brutal. Even the authorities referred to these particularly inhuman conditions. Thus a national commission of inquiry wrote in December 1942 after an inspection of the Essener hard coal AG: "The east workers are present in barracks for prisoners of war with heaviest Stacheldraht and vergitterten windows accommodated. Entwesung unsatisfactorily. Much vermin. Straw mattresses had to be removed, therefore sleeping only on Drahtmatratzen. Occasionally flog. Wage question inexplicably. Meal not particularly,". The group of repairing refused carrying up to its death a remuneration out to the forced laborers, since this in the eyes of Friedrich repair a directly come last. Repair could owing to the Nazis in the course of the Second World War control of almost the entire European mining industry attain and employed in 132 societies approximately 120,000 persons employed with an annual turnover of 550 million realm Marks. Its private fortune became estimated on approximately two to three billion realm Marks.

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