Friedrich Minoux

Friedrich Minoux ( born March 21, 1877 in mother city; † October 16, 1945 in Berlin light field ) was a German industrialist.

Life

In 1912 he was appointed Hugo Stinnes, whose right hand he was. In the management of the Stinnes Group Here he earned the enormous sum of 350,000 gold marks a year. In 1919 he became a board member of the United Berliner coal merchant AG ( VBK ).

In 1923 he retired from the Stinnes Group to set up their own business empire. Main source of income is its carbon wholesaler " Friedrich Minoux Company for Trade and Industry". In 1924 he was among the founders of the Berlin Municipal Electricity Werke AG ( Bewag ). In 1926, he acquired half of the shares in the German - Romanian Petroleum AG ( Derupag ).

Minoux was the Weimar Republic hostile to and maintained contacts with right-wing paramilitary organizations and politicians. In the event of a government takeover of the forces directed against the Weimar Republic, he was considered a contender for ministerial posts and even as a candidate of Hugo Stinnes ' for the office of Chancellor. Fritz Thyssen said in his memoirs, " I paid Hitler" from that Minoux 1923 the Nazi party financed. In 1931 he became a member of the pro-fascist Association for the Study of Fascism.

In 1933 he was appointed to the Academy of German Law. On June 30, 1934 Minoux witnessed the events of the so-called Röhm - Putsch with immediately when he witnessed the occupation of the offices was an SS commando during a meeting with the senior executive officer Herbert von Bose in the Deputy Chancellor's office. While Bose was shot Minoux was finally allowed to leave the building.

1938 Minoux bought for less than 1 million Reichsmark, the pulp and paper mill Offenheimer worth 12 million Reichsmark, whose Jewish owner was forced by the Nazis for sale.

On August 15, 1941, he was sentenced imprisonment and heavy fines for fraud to 5 years.