. NMT06-T0344
Volume VI · Page 344
| My special field of duties was the industrial interests of the concern. I accompanied Mr. Flick on many of his travels, and I was present at all important meetings as far as they were not concerned with conferences in a very small circle. The manner of working I put down in the affidavit which I submitted, which are things the Tribunal has received. I would like to summarize briefly, that I dealt with all questions which had any connection with the plants themselves. At that time, when I joined the firm, that means I was mainly connected with the Linke-Hofmann-Lauchhammer and the Siegerlaender-Werke of the Charlottenhuette; afterward with the Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke and Maxhuette, and when we bought soft coal [Steinkohle] I became also the liaison man to the soft coal industries. The financial and tax questions, and commercial interests, the administration of those, was in the hands of Mr. Kaletsch. We were on the same basis. Perhaps I was primes inter pares insofar as the time was concerned, and in this respect the graph on the wall which has been produced by the prosecution, is not quite correct.* I never was superior to Mr. Kaletsch. In 1927, I then became a member of the Vorstand of Mittelstahl. This is the abbreviation for the Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke, they call it Mittelstahl. In 1928 I became a member of the Vorstand of the Charlottenhuette. In 1931 when the combined interests of the Mittelstahl and Maxhuette were created, I also became a member of the Vorstand of Maxhuette. In the course of time I also became a member of the Aufsichtsrat of the other enterprises, and when the Friedrich Flick Kommanditgesellschaft was founded, I also became Plenipotentiary General [Generalbevollmaechtigter] of this company. | |
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| Q. Why did you leave the
Vorstaende [managing boards) in the spring of 1939? A. Even in the previous years I had, several times, expressed the desire that we should separate. I felt that I wanted to be more independent. I wanted to travel and, prior to my fiftieth birthday, this decision became a definite one, and I decided that toward 1938 I should leave the Vorstaende, that is when the business year came to an end and the annual general meeting had taken place in 1939 I should be free. But I still intended to keep up a loose contact with the concern |
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| . Q. When did you take up your negotiations about the assumption of the trusteeship of the Thyssen property? It was not really |
* Reference is made to the chart "Supervisory Control of Flick Concern", reproduced above in section III A.
