Jakob Werlin

Jakob Werlin ( born May 10, 1886 in Andritz, † September 23, 1965 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian car dealer who by virtue of its early contact with Adolf Hitler in the period of National Socialism SS honor leaders and Inspector General of the leader for motor transport and board member Daimler- Benz AG.

Life

Werlin completed his schooling at the national, community and trade school in Graz. The Puchwerke AG automobile factory in Graz in 1903, he received a job and was branch manager for this operation from 1910 in Budapest. As a volunteer took the k.u.k. Army in part from 1914 to 1917 in the First World War.

From 1917 to 1921 he was in Germany branch manager for Hansa -Lloyd and the Association of German automotive factories in Essen. From 1921 he headed for Benz & Cie.. ( from 1925: Daimler -Benz AG) the sales office in Munich. Adolf Hitler he learned to know about 1923, as this often the printing of the People's Observer and also visited the dealership, both of which were housed in the same building. Already in 1923 he managed the sale of a Benz automobile for Hitler to the Nazi Party. In the following years presented Werlin of the NSDAP more limousines available. After the merger with Daimler, he became in 1926 director of the local Daimler- Benz headquarters.

Werlin was an honorary member of the NSDAP from 1932 ( Mitglieds-Nr. 3208977 ) and since 1934 the SS ( Mitglieds-Nr. 266 883 ). He became a confidant of Hitler and his advisers in automotive questions. On January 16, 1942 Hitler appointed him inspector general of the leader for motor transport and increased the end of January 1942 to the SS Oberführer. In the same year the Golden Party Badge and honorary SS followed the carriage to the SS leaders honor the Reichsführer

Due to his good contacts with Hitler Werlin was appointed in 1934 to the board of Daimler -Benz AG. As liaison to the Nazi regime he was out for the Munich branch responsible for any further division. But he was very active in the development of the Volkswagen by Ferdinand Porsche and was from 1938 ehrenamtlichrt Director General and Member of the Supervisory Board of the newly established Volkswagenwerk GmbH.

After the war, Werlin was from July 1945 in American internment camp in Moosburg. In 1948 he was dismissed as a hanger. From 1951 he owned under the name J. Werlin & Sons sales and service centers of Daimler -Benz in Rosenheim and Traunstein.

According to a researcher Werlin belonged in 1942 to the informants of Eduard Schulte, the director general of the mining group Giesche heirs, about the oncoming Holocaust.