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Lautenschlager was plant leader
at Hoechst Plant, 1938-45, which produced inorganics, solvents, organic
intermediates, plastics, pharmaceuticals, compressed gases, welding and cutting
equipment and oxygen.
Wurster was
plant leader at Ludwigshafen-Oppau “during World War II,” and
technical director of Ludwigshafen-Oppau, 1938-45, which produced inorganics,
organics, organic intermediates, buna, plastics, solvents, synthetic rubber,
tanning extracts, dyestuffs, detergent raw materials and ethylene oxide.
Where the local manager of a plant was not a Vorstand member, he
received orders and information from his Sparte head, the head of his Works
Combine, or some other means of coordination and supervision by the Vorstand
existed. It is abundantly clear that all lines led to the Vorstand.
Administrative Coordination. In
1927 the first of a number of central administrative agencies was set up in
Berlin, NW 7, in charge of defendant Ilgner. This was the Central Finance
Administration (ZEFI). It was followed in 1929 by an Economic Research
Department (VOWI) and a Political-Economic Policy Department in
1933. The function of the latter was to assure close cooperation between the
commercial departments of Farben and government agencies. In 1935 a central
office for liaison with Armed Forces called “Vermittlungsstelle
W” was added, which eventually dealt with such matters as mobilization
questions and plans, military security, counterintelligence, secret patents,
research for the Armed Forces, et cetera. Its activities were of sufficient
importance to have each Sparte designate a chief and collaborators to its
staff. Defendant von der Heyde was in charge of its counterintelligence
activities, under the over-all supervision of defendant Schneider.
Sales Combines to handle the four
principal categories of Farben products were established, each headed by a
Vorstand member. Chief of the “Sales Combine Dyestuffs” was defendant
von Schnitzler, who also became chief of “Sales Combine Chemicals” in
1943. Defendant Haefliger was one of his three deputies. Defendant Mann was
chief of “Sales Combine Pharmaceuticals.”
Nitrogen was sold exclusively
through the German Nitrogen Syndicate (Stickstoff Syndikat G. m. b. H.) which
was managed by defendant Oster.
Most of the plants and all of the Sales
Combines of Farben had legal departments, and all of the larger plants had
patent departments. The work of these departments was coordinated by two
Vorstand committees, the “Legal Committee” and the “Patent
Commission.” Defendant von Knieriem was chairman of both bodies, and was
also head of the legal and patents departments of the Ludwigshafen plant which
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