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This body consisted, in the case of Farben, of ten confidential
Council members from the larger plants.
Q. Did any other persons
participate in the meetings of the Enterprise Council in Farben
A. Yes,
from the employers’ side various plant leaders of the larger plants.
Q. What was the name of this body?
A. These were the so-called
plant leaders’ meetings (Betriebsfuehrerbesprechungen.)
Q. And
these same persons also participated in the meetings of the Enterprise Council?
A. Yes.
Q. How often did these bodies meet?
A. Several
times a year. Later, because of the difficulty in traveling conditions, they
could meet only rarely.
Q. How long did these meetings usually last?
A. Before the Enterprise Council meeting, I usually called the plant
leaders to a plant leaders meeting in order to discuss the program for the
Enterprise Council in advance. The discussions of the plant leader meetings and
Enterprise Council lasted about two and a half hours each.
Q. What
were. your main functions as main plant leader and head of the Enterprise
Council?
A. My functions referred to questions of social welfare, as
far as they were organized beyond the individual plants in Farben.
Q.
What was included in this duty?
A. Among other things, the compilation
of regulations for the operating of the plants, setting the general working
conditions of Farben plants uniformly in several points. Furthermore,
regulating old age pensions of employees in the various enterprises, especially
the pension funds. Farben’s yearly premium was set forth and the
institutions for savings for the employees. Then the general policy regarding
construction of homes, professional training questions, questions of wage and
salary rates which had to be regulated uniformly for all of Farben, and also
prior approval of all credit applications of the plant for the entire social
welfare field, as a preparation for the Technical Committee. These are about
the most important problems which I had to deal with as the leader of the plant
and head of the Enterprise Council.
Q. Then the credits for barracks
construction in the camps were also part of your work?
A. Yes, these
credits also belonged in the social welfare field.
Q. As main plant
leader, did you have any other functions?
A. In the office of the main
plant leader of Leuna — in my office, the Bertrams office —
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