Berthold Beitz

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Berthold Beitz

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1912-Today Shell USA (formerly Shell Oil Company Inc)
1935-1946 Wehrmacht
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
Carpathian Oil Company
Heads of Friedrich Krupp AG
Leo-Baeck Award
NAZI Bankers
NAZI Party
Pommersche Bank
Righteous Among the Nations
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"It wasn't anti-Fascism, nor was it resistance. We saw from dawn to dusk, as close as could be, what was happening to Boryslav's Jews. When you see a mother holding her children being shot, while you yourself have children, your reaction has to be...
1938 Berthold Beitz began his career as a banker at the "Pommersche Bank" in Stralsund and started to work for Shell Oil Company in Hamburg in 1938.
1939 Beitz remained in the employ of Shell Oil when World War II began in 1939.
1941 Following Germany's invasion and occupation of Boryslaw in July 1941, Beitz was assigned to supervise the Carpathian Oil Company operating the Boryslaw oil fields in what is now Ukraine.
1942 After witnessing the "Invaliden-Aktion" in August 1942, an SS-led evacuation of a Jewish orphanage in Boryslaw, Beitz became determined to act to save local Jews.
1942 Beitz "extricated 250 Jewish men and women from the transport train to the Belzec extermination camp by claiming them as 'professional workers.'"
1943 Beitz's efforts were nearly exposed after two Jewish girls were arrested on a train to Hungary with forged "Aryan" permits signed by Beitz.
1944 Beitz survived despite a Gestapo investigation into the incident, but he was drafted into the German army in March 1944.
1953 Alfried Krupp hired Berthold Beitz to become chairman of the Krupp steel corporation.
1953-2013 Berthold Beitz remained with the company for 60 years and helped build it into a publicly traded conglomerate, merging the company in the 1990s to form ThyssenKrupp.
1967 After Alfried Krupp's death in 1967, Beitz served as executor and persuaded the Krupp heirs to establish a charitable foundation known as the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation.
1967-Today Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation still owns 25% of ThyssenKrupp.
1972-1988 Beitz was a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and an honorary member until his death.
2013 Following Beitz's death, Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, called Beitz "one of the great Germans of the past century."
According to Yad Vashem, "The Jews that he(Berthold Beitz) rescued from deportation included many unqualified workers, often in poor physical condition, who could not, by any stretch of the imagination, be described as 'professionals' or indispensable...
Barbara Ingrid Beitz
Barbara Ingrid Beitz, an ethnic German whose parents were awarded the "Righteous among the Nations" honorific by the State of Israel for providing refuge and risking their lives to save Jews during World War II.
Beitz has also been credited with helping to lead the re-industrialization of the Ruhr Valley where Krupp's operations were based.
Beitz recalled, "I should have employed qualified personnel. Instead, I chose tailors, hairdressers and Talmudic scholars and gave them all cards as vital 'petroleum technicians.'"
Berthold Beitz gained acclaim for saving some 250 Jewish workers during World War II by declaring them to be essential workers at an oil facility in Poland.
Iduna (insurance company)
In total, Beitz has been credited with saving the lives of 800 Jews.
Together with his wife Else, Beitz also hid Jews in his home. He also issued and signed fake work permits to save other Jews from the death camps.

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