Willy Sachs (* 23. July 1896 in ford; "† 19 November 1958 ebenda) was a German Industrieller, Swedish consul, carrier of the Order of Merit.

Willy Sachs was the son of the later secret Kommerzienrats Ernst Sachs, who invented the Freilaufnabe for bicycles and removed its small workshop in the course of the years to the world enterprise.

Willy Sachs visited the middle school and concerned themselves privately with the study of the political economy. After Praktikantenzeit of several years, among other things with Bosch in Stuttgart, as well as in different enterprises in the USA, Sachs became 1923 member of the board of the paternal company and transferred 1932 after the death of its father the line of the precision taper roller bearing works Fichtel & Sachs to pig ford. In its work the well-known special engine for bicycles was continued to develop.

1933 join Willy Sachs of the NSDAP and become member of the SS in the rank of a storm spell leader. With Hermann connects it a hunt friendship of many years. In May 1945 he is arrested as "military industrial leader" of American military in Oberaudorf and spends three years in American shank. In the context of a Entnazifizierungsverfahrens it is classified and released 1948 as a The following reconstruction of Fichtel & Sachs (67% of the factories were destroyed with end of war) was favoured by the second motorizing wave since establishment of the enterprise. Light, inexpensive two-stroke engines from the house Fichtel & Sachs were built into large series into mopeds and small motor cycles. Motor vehicle parts in the form of clutches, shock absorbers and other motor vehicle accessories became the Hauptprodukten of the works.

Sachs was since 1930 royal-Swedish consul and honour citizen of the city pig ford and sat in the supervisory board Bavarian Hypotheken-und exchange bank in Munich. it lets 1936 build in its hometown pig ford the Willy Sachs stadium designated after him. it received 1957 from the hand from Federal President Theodor Heuss the Order of Merit.

Was from 1925 to 1935 Willy Sachs with Elinor of OPEL, which married granddaughter of the OPEL founder Adam OPEL. From the marriage two sons originate: Ernst Wilhelm Sachs (* 1929, "† 1979) and Gunter Sachs (* 1932).

On Sachs took itself property Rechenau in Oberaudorf at the Inn, particularly preferential by it, a passionierten hunter, on 19 November 1958 the life. As motive mental depressions and serious illness are accepted. In the South German one of 31. In addition, May 2006 published article is brought the fact that after Sachs its shank was not taken up by its wife, in connection to its Suizid.

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