Lobbying Hitler

Industrial Associations Between Democracy and Dictatorship
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-215-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 387 g

From 1933 onward, Nazi Germany undertook massive and unprecedented industrial integration, submitting an entire economic sector to direct state oversight. This innovative study explores how German professionals navigated this complex landscape through the divergent careers of business managers in two of the era’s most important trade organizations. While Jakob Reichert of the iron and steel industry unexpectedly resisted state control and was eventually driven to suicide, Karl Lange of the machine builders’ association achieved security for himself and his industry by submitting to the Nazi regime. Both men’s stories illuminate the options available to industrialists under the Third Reich, as well as the real priorities set by the industries they served.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bera, Matt

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Unternehmensgeschichte, Einzelne Branchen und Unternehmer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Adaptation and Opposition in Democracy and Dictatorship

Chapter 1. Opposition and Adaptation: Reichert and Lange in the Weimar Republic

Chapter 2. Confidence and Complicity: Confronting National Socialist Ideology

Chapter 3. Conflict and Co-ordination: Creating a National Socialist Economy

Chapter 4. Impotence: Jakob Reichert in the Nazi Wartime Economy

Chapter 5. Indispensability: Karl Lange in the Nazi Wartime Economy

Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bera, Matt
Matt Bera lives in Toronto and has taught in the History and German Studies Departments at York University, as well as a number of other institutions in the region and abroad.