Bingel, Rudolf

Technician, Chairman of the Board

Born: 02.06.1882 in Wiesbaden

Died: 22.09.1945 in Landsberg an der Warthe special camp

After training at the Bingen Technical College, Bingel was employed by Rheinische Siemens-Schuckert-Werke in Mannheim in 1907, where he made a career for himself and became a full member of the board in 1927. The Technical Universities of Braunschweig and Darmstadt appointed him honorary Dr.-Ing. in 1929 and 1942 respectively. In 1939, he was appointed Chairman of the Board and General Director of Siemens-Schuckert-Werke AG (SSW) in Berlin. He was a member of various supervisory boards.

During the Second World War, Bingel had close contacts with the Wehrmacht in the field of war economy. He repeatedly emphasized the key position of the electrical industry in the armaments industry and was appointed to the Reichsgruppe Industrie (RI), the predecessor of the Federation of German Industries (BDI). He was a member of the Freundeskreis Reichsführer SS, Heinrich Himmler's support group, a fundraising association for the SS.

In May 1945, Bingel was arrested by Soviet troops in Siemensstadt as one of the company's important representatives and initially transported to the Ketschendorf special camp. He was then sent to the former Landsberg/Warthe concentration camp, where he died as a result of his imprisonment.

When it became public after 1990 that he had "campaigned for the Hitler regime earlier and more actively than was necessary in his position", Bingelstraße, which was named after him in Siemensstadt in 1955, was renamed "Straße am Schaltwerk".