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personnel (scientists, engineers, plant managers) who were not
Vorstand members. Formed immediately after the 1926 merger, it dealt until 1945
with all technical questions of research and production, expansion of plant
facilities and consolidation and recommendation of credit requests. It had a
centralized administrative office, the TEA-Buero in Berlin, managed by one Dr.
Ernst Struss. Twelve of the defendants were regular members during the period
indicated, to wit: Krauch (1929-40); Gajewski (1929-45); Hoerlein (1931-45);
ter Meer (1925-45); Schneider (1938-45); Ambros (1938-45); Buergin (1938-45);
Buetefisch (1938-45); Jaehne (1938-45); Kuehne (1925-45); Lautenschlaeger
(1938-45); Wurster (1938-45); and, the following defendants were frequent
visitors or guests during the year indicated; to wit: Schmitz (1925-45); von
Schnitzler (1929-45); von Knieriem (1931-45); Schneider (1929-38); Buergin
(1937-38); Buetefisch (1932-38); Jaehne (1926-38). Defendant ter Meer was
chairman from 1933 to 1945.
This TEA had subservient committees to
originate, consider, and recommend plans for production and exchange of
information on research, development and application, plus opinions on
appropriations for new construction. These subcommittees numbered thirty-six in
chemistry, five in engineering, the latter grouped under a “Technical
Commission (TEKO) ,” with defendant Jaehne as chairman, 1932-45.
Commercial Committee (KA).
As distinguished from the “Technical,” the counterbalance of
managerial power was represented by the “Commercial Committee” of the
Vorstand.
The Commercial Committee was formed shortly after the 1926
merger to assist the Vorstand in directing and coordinating the commercial
affairs of Farben, that is, sales, publicity, commercial personnel, both
domestic and foreign, economic problems affecting Farben interests, et cetera.
It gradually lapsed into inactivity by 1933, but was reconstituted in August
1937 under the leadership of defendant von Schnitzler, and thereafter until
1945 was a very active and important group in the Vorstand. Besides von
Schnitzler, defendants Haefliger, Ilgner, Mann and Oster served from 1937, and
defendant Kugler from 1940 until the collapse of Germany. The full membership
numbered about twenty, comprising the heads of the Sales Combines and their
immediate associates and the heads of the “central departments,”
financial, accounting, purchasing, economic-political. Defendant Schmitz was a
regular guest and defendants Gajewski, von Knieriem and ter Meer occasional
guests at meetings of this committee. Approval by the Vorstand was required for
all KA resolutions.
“Mixed
Committees.” Coordination between the technical and commercial chiefs
of Farben was established initially at the Vorstand level, where the preeminent
leaders met to hear and discuss reports of the individual members on matters
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