Traueranzeigen berthold beitz biography

Berthold Beitz, one of post-war West Germany's leading industrialists, has died at the age of 99 on Tuesday, steelmaker ThyssenKrupp AG announced Wednesday.

Apart from his work with ThyssenKrupp, Beitz was well known for saving hundreds of Jewish workers in occupied Poland during World War II.

In , Beitz was given the Righteous Among the Nations honorific by the Israeli Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, which is the highest honor given to a non-Jew, for saving Jews.

According to Yad Vashem's biography of Beitz, in August , he saved Jews from being deported to the Belzec death camp by claiming they were crucial to production.

Beitz and his wife, Else were also honored by Germany's main Jewish group in for this act.

In the s, Beitz was brought on to manage the Krupp steel company, which was heavily involved in weapons production during the war.

In Beitz became supervisory board chairman of Krupp.

In , the company merged with Thyssen to form