Schmitz, Hermann

Saussure, Nicholas Theodore de, 1 Scheele, Carl Wilhelm, 2-3 Scheuch, Heinrich, 228 Schilbach (Bosch), Else, 86 Schiller, Georg, 113 Schloesing, Theophile, 16 Schmitz, Hermann, 104 Schonherr, Otto, 75-76 Schwann, Theodor, 2 Stern, Georg, 94-95 Strassman, Fritz, 231 Stresemann, Gustav, 224 Suess, Hans, 178... 

You figure that," she said. "Colonel Bahaar in Berlin — he s about the only Russian there whose word might be counted on — backed up the Swedish legation. Bahaar swears the Russians never excavated at Berlin Northwest 7. But Hermann Schmitz had a huge personal fortune in Sweden and plenty of influence there. Now, who s lying "... 

On the verdant hillside overlooking Heidelberg, the house looked like a stucco pillbox. A short, bullnecked man came to the door and asked the men who they were. Only after consulting his wife, a dumpy Frau in a spotless gingham dress, did he admit that his name was Hermann Schmitz. 

The fox, though crafty, cannot unload the hunter s gun. Hermann Schmitz was of a shrewder breed. If Gadow didn t pay off, Farben could take back the firm. Yet the profits were not shown to be "legal profits" either in the United States or in Germany. 

This Northwest 7 file revealed that before Hermann Schmitz rose to the presidency, every factory which I.G. Farben operated carried the Farben name. In 1935, when they began to produce for the government, the directors became more modest. 

The President Defendant Hermann Schmitz, have you counsel Schmitz Yes.. . . ... 

A picture taken in the early 1930 s showing from left to right Dr. Carl Bosch, second head of Farben (succeeding Duisberg and preceeding Hermann Schmitz) Defendant Hermann Schmitz an unidentified person and Defendant Georg von Schnitzler. 

Sprecher introduced a document. It was a directive from Hermann Schmitz requiring Von Schnitzler to report to the managing board all "basic questions" discussed in the commercial committee. From Judge Morris tone, one imagined that the cocklebur regretted its position. 

Hermann Schmitz was the expert on whether rearmament would so inflate a national economy that it must gorge itself on its neighbors to survive. 

Their hands were free to argue or wave. They filed in as if to a board meeting. The others pointed at Hermann Schmitz s stooped back and shook their heads. Schmitz took his seat. His dirty-white goatee wilting on his chest, his bleary-blue eyes downcast in a sort of automatic concentration, he seemed a stupid caricature of his old self. His counsel announced that Schmitz had elected to remain silent. Then Baron von Schnitzler, accepting the Tribunal s implied invitation to say nothing more, also decided not to take the witness stand. 

In the late twenties, Hermann Schmitz and Baron von Schnitzler had sailed to New York to visit Standard s president, Walter Teagle. They brought the news that Farben had just succeeded in making gasoline from coal. 

At Cransberg, Hermann Schmitz had agreed "I.G. Farben, as early as 1934, had started with the preparation of mobilization plans." Nevertheless, said Ter Meer ... 

Hermann Schmitz, Paul Haefliger, Von Schnitzler, and five others stood convicted only for plundering other industries. Von Schnitzler s admissions did not mean anything, even against himself. None of the directors was censured for abetting and waging an aggressive war — not even Carl Krauch. 

None of the other fourteen were responsible, either, because they hadn t visited the site. So the judgment said, anyway. As for those among mem who had admitted visiting the site — well, they must have been dreaming And it came to pass that Hermann Schmitz, who, according to Fritz Sauckel, had "wildly recruited foreign workers" for Auschwitz, was "never shown to have exercised functions in the allocation or recruitment of compulsory labor."... 

Hermann Schmitz Guilty on plundering count only Sentenced to four years... 

Carl Krauch, Fritz ter Meer, Heinrich Buetefisch, and Christian Schneider are "advising" in the production of synthetic rubber and synthetic gasoline for "peacetime purposes." Often they visit at the home of Hermann Schmitz, living "in retirement" at Wesel am Rhein. From time to time Ter Meer acts as expert for the Bonn government. 

Senator Claude Pepper s preface made it clear that the book was an indictment of what he called ig Farbenism , that is, cartels and monopolies. For him the German war maker, in a real sense, was not so much Adolf Hitler s brown-shirted, swaggering storm trooper, as it was the soberly-clad superficially honorable type - Hjalmar Schacht or Hermann Schmitz, president of ig Farben. 57... 

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