Bodo Lafferentz

Bodo Lafferentz

Bodo Lafferentz (27 July, 1897 – 17 January, 1974) was a member of the Nazi Party from 1933 and a high ranking officer (SS-Obersturmbannführer) of the SS from 1939. He served in World War I and received the Iron Cross 2nd Class in 1916.

In 1928, he completed his doctorate at the University of Kiel in "Economic Planning and Price Regulation". He subsequently worked in the management of the German Employers' Association, and from 1929 was voluntarily on the management board of the National Institute of Benefits and Insurance for the Unemployed.

On 1 May, 1933, Lafferentz became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and was made leader of the "Office for Travelling, Rambling and Holidays" (which was later amalgamated into the Strength Through Joy organisation).

In January 1938, Lafferentz was promoted to Reich Agency Leader, and was given sole leadership of the Agency in the Central Office of the German Labour Front in Berlin. In May 1937, he was made a manager (along with Ferdinand Porsche and Jakob Werlin) of the "Association for the Preparation of the German People's Car", and in 1938 voluntarily became one of the CEOs of the Volkswagen Group. He travelled extensively, searched for a good company location, and his recommendation of Fallersleben was accepted.

From 1939, he was a high ranking officer in the SS (SS-Obersturmbannführer), and on the staff of the SS "Race and Settlement Central Agency". In 1942 he founded an "Association for Research and Development", to research oil shale sites and the use of wind power. In Bayreuth he founded the "Institute for Physical Research", an outpost of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, to develop the V-2 Rocket.

Lafferentz organised the Bayreuth "War Festival", as he had married Verena Wagner, the daughter of Siegfried and Winifred Wagner, and the granddaughter of Richard Wagner in 1943. He would have five children with her: Amelie (born 1944), Manfred (born 1945), Winifred (born 1947), Wieland (born 1949) and Verena (born 1952).

Literature

* Hans Mommsen, Manfred Grieger: Das Volkswagenwerk und seine Arbeiter im Dritten Reich ("The Volkswagen Group and its Employees in the Third Reich"), ECON, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-430-16785-X

ources

*Most of the material in this article is from the [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_Lafferentz German Wikipedia article]

External links

* [http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=1153401&sid=e66dd5f333040ce81a0ac35a10ab6350 Photograph of Lafferentz]
* [http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=996133&sid=40ede601e655a51a4c25168b60efb46b references]
* [http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=131942 references]


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