Max Ilgner
Max Ilgner ( born June 28, 1899 in Biebesheim, † March 28, 1966 in Schwetzingen ) was a board member of IG Colors and Wehrwirtschaftsführer.
Life
The son of the Secretariat conductor at BASF attended school in Dusseldorf in 1913 and entered into the Hauptkadettenanstalt Berlin light field. 1918 - shortly before the end of the First World War - he was assigned to the front. Ilgner began in 1919 chemistry, metallurgy, law, and economics in Berlin- Charlottenburg and Frankfurt am Main to study; in Frankfurt, he was a member of the Corps Austria. 1923 he obtained his PhD. During his studies he completed a commercial bank and an education.
From 1923 to 1924 he worked in Stockholm. He was later married to a Swede, the couple had three children.
Illgner 1924 director and authorized representative of purchasing the chemical company Cassella. A year later (1925 ) - Ilgner was already director - the company went on in the IG Farben concern. 1926 Ilgner was authorized signatory at the newly founded IG Colors and there in 1934 Managing Director of the ammonia plant in Merseburg. Since 1933, he belonged to the so-called F- circle. When I.G. Colors was Illgner from 1934 and from 1938 deputy ordinary Executive Board member. From 1935/1936 he was Deputy Chairman of the Central European Business Forum and, according to its director and deputy Krupp Wilmowsky there kind of hustler.
Politically, he became involved in 1937 with the entry into the NSDAP; at the same time he became a member of the German Labor Front. From 1938 he served as Wehrwirtschaftsführer.
In 1939 Ilgners appointment as Managing Director of Bunawerke in Schkopau. In the coming years he was a member of several supervisory and management boards, including the "South East Committee of the Reich Group Industry " and the " Working Group for the Economics questions ". Both groups were under the Ministry of Economic Affairs. As head of financial management of I.G. Colors was Ilgner liaison to a number of ministries. He also contributed to the financial exploitation of chemical factories in the occupied territories.
Already in 1945 Ilgner was arrested by the U.S. Army and later put on trial. Because of its activity in Norway convicted him in 1948 of the VI. U.S. Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in the IG Farben Trial under the charge " pillage and plunder " to a prison term of three years.
After his early release in 1948 Ilgner was commissioned by the German Lutheran Church and the Westphalian church planning and supervision of the refugee Espelkamp where a street is named after him. He also founded in 1952 the " International Society for Christian building ". In 1955, he could hold in his old profession foot as he took over the chairmanship of a Swiss / Dutch chemical group. Ilgner, nephew of Hermann Schmitz came in 1961 in retirement and died in March 1966.