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Emil Heinrich Meyer

1886 – 1945

SS officer and businessman

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Lived 1886 – 1945 (aged 59). Emil Heinrich Meyer was a German university teacher, banker, businessperson, jurist and lawyer.

Emil Heinrich Meyer (6 May 1886 in Wiesbaden – 9 May 1945 in Berlin) was a German business executive. Meyer was a board member at the ITT Corporation's Germany-based subsidiaries Standard Elektrik Lorenz and Mix & Genest as well as AEG.

Meyer was a cousin of the industrialist Wilhelm Keppler and became a member of the Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft, a group of industrialists committed to racialism and close to far right politics, led by Keppler. He was one of three directors of the Dresdner Bank, the others being Karl Rasche and Fritz Kranefuss, to belong to the exclusive Freunde des Reichsführer-SS circle, a development of Keppler's group. As such he had the courtesy rank of Standartenführer in the SS. In 1935 he was made an honorary professor for Genossenschaftswesen at the prestigious Handelshochschule Berlin as well as a member of the Nazi Academy for German Law.

During the latter stages of the Second World War, Meyer was involved in Ostindustrie GmbH, a forced labour enterprise attached to the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office set up by Oswald Pohl in the General Government area of Poland in 1943. Meyer committed suicide in Berlin in 1945.

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SS officer and businessman (1886–1945)

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Emil Heinrich Meyer was born on 6 May 1886 in Wiesbaden.

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Emil Heinrich Meyer died on 9 May 1945 in Berlin.

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Emil Heinrich Meyer was a university teacher, banker, businessperson, jurist and lawyer.

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Emil Heinrich Meyer was German.

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· Wikidata: Q113107

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