. NMT05-T0960
Volume VI · Page 960
| E. Testimony of Defendant Burkart | |
| EXTRACTS FROM TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT BURKART¹ |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION | |
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| DR. KRANZBUEHLER (counsel for defendant Burkart) : Now please tell
us how you came to join Mittelstahl?² DEFENDANT BURKART: I mentioned just now a gentleman called Moeller. For many years he was a member of Vorstand of the Lauchhammer group in Lauchhammer and in Riesa. I had known Mr. Moeller for many years, as a result of my sales work and also our joint work with the associations in Duesseldorf and in Essen and he recommended me to Mr. Flick, when Mr. Flick at that time intended to find a successor to Mr. Terberger because Dr. Terberger wanted to take over the business management of Maxhuette. Q. Did Mr. Flick approach you or did you apply to him or how did it happen? A. No, I didn't apply to him but one day Mr. Moeller asked me to introduce myself to Mr. Flick, because there was a chance he might have an interesting job for me. Q. And you came to an agreement with Mr. Flick? A. Yes. Q. What was your work there and what were the conditions under which you were employed? A. When I went to see Mr. Flick — Q. That was in 1936, wasn't it? A. In 1935, before I went there, he inquired in great detail about the work I had been doing, in what departments I had worked, and how things looked in Upper Silesian plants. After we had talked for about a half hour and I had been considerably surprised about the expert knowledge shown by Mr. Flick, which I never would have supposed to find in my former Aufsichtsrat chairman in Gleiwitz, Mr. Flick told me or rather asked me whether I would like to take over Mr. Terberger's job. I told Mr. Flick that I had never in my life taken on a job without knowing exactly what demands would be made upon me and whether I could meet these demands. So I asked Mr. Flick |
¹ Further extracts from the testimony of defendant Burkart are reproduced in section V E.
² Concerning Burkart's personal history, see the stipulation of record, reproduced in section IV D.
