Talk:Humbert de Wendel

Notes on bias
The anonymous editor using IP 88.86.190.77 has expressed concerns about lack of neutrality and has repeatedly removed material. As the editor who started the article, I would say the subject seems if anything to have been a rather pleasant individual, a sensible businessman who acted in a normal and correct manner. To some specific points: A biography of a major industrialist can never give an entirely balanced and complete view. That is not a reason to delete information. Going forward, information supported by sources should only be removed or changed following agreement on this talk page. Information can of course be added, citing the sources. Unsourced additions may be removed. Aymatth2 (talk) 15:15, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Nobility: The subject's ancestor Jean-Martin Wendel (1665–1737) bought a forge in Lorraine and was later ennobled (apparently on the basis that the title of "count" came with the property). From then on the family used the name "de Wendel". There is nothing discreditable about this. The long history of metallurgy in the family is relevant background.
 * Football team: The subject sponsored a local football team. Seems like an o.k. thing to do.
 * Father was Reichstag deputy: The source gives this information without commentary. I have added that he was a protesting deputy, citing another source.
 * World War I: I have added a clarification from the cited source that the Wendel steel works were behind German lines, so they were not profiting from the war.
 * Inter-war period: The French occupation of the Ruhr caused coal supplies to dry up and thus caused closures of Lorraine steel furnaces. Wendel was involved in formation of the International Steel Entente. The Wendels were involved in various other companies. These are relevant facts.
 * World War II:
 * The Aciéries du Nord "passed into the hands of the Wendel steel group". This is fact, not "punishable libel", and does not indicate any wrongdoing.
 * Caesar von Hofacker, who ran the iron and steel office in Paris, was anti-Nazi and may have been close to Wendel. Again, this does not indicate any wrongdoing, rather the opposite.
 * Hermann Röchling: Röchling pledged to destroy the Wendel family interests in Lorraine. After the war, Wendel said Röchling was not a Nazi, just a German nationalist, and defended Röchling's administration. This seems magnanimous.

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