Heinrich Gattineau

Heinrich Gattineau ( born January 6, 1905 in Bucharest, † 27 April 1985) was a German economist, SA leader, director of IG Colors and accused at the Nuremberg Trials.

Life

After attending a high school in Munich Gattineau studied at Munich University political science, law, finance, economics and geopolitics. Gattineau graduated in 1925 and received his doctorate in 1927 with the thesis " The process of urbanization in Australia in its importance for the future of the white race ". He was a member from 1923 to the collar Oberland and joined the SA in 1933. In the SA, he was economic advisor to the staff of the SA leader Ernst Röhm. After the so-called Röhm - Putsch, he was briefly imprisoned in the concentration camp Columbia house and stepped out after release from the SA. Finally, he joined the NSDAP in 1935.

Gattineau, married and father of five children, was a member of the F- circle, board member of the Near and Middle East Association and the German gentlemen's club.

Gattineau was from January 1928 at the I.G. Colors employed as an assistant to Carl Duisberg and was from 1931 the trade department and the company's press office before. To win Adolf Hitler for making synthetic gasoline Gattineau organized a joint meeting with senior representatives of the IG Colors, which took place in 1932. In the Berlin headquarters of I.G. Colors led Gattineau 1933-1938 the Economic Policy Department and was a liaison to the IG Colors to the government. Then he was until the end of World War II as director of the Dynamit Nobel factory in Bratislava for IG Colors worked. In Bratislava he was one of several directors. He was also director of the Chemical Industry AG in Bratislava, the board of the East Slovakian Chemische Fabrik AG and has been a board of other companies in Southeast Europe.

After the war ended in 1945 Gattineau arrested by the U.S. Army and accused at the Nuremberg Trials in the IG Farben Trial with 22 other accused. On July 30, 1948 Gattineau was acquitted with ten other defendants because the evidence

Gattineau was then on the board of WASAG -Chemie AG in Essen ( Krupp ), and the Guano -Werke AG in Hamburg ( Krupp and guano Group ). He also served on the Board of the Central German explosives Werke GmbH in Langelsheim and other companies and sat on the advisory board of Dresdner Bank AG in Dusseldorf.

Gattineaus Short CV was listed in the Brown Book of the GDR. Gattineau died in late April 1985.

Publications

Through the cliffs of the 20th century. Memories of Time & economic history. Seewald, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-512-00672-8 ( autobiography )