Poems in Steel

National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-1-57181-242-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 604 g

Reihe: Monographs in German History

The role of National Socialism in the development of German society remains a central question of historical inquiry. This study presents original answers by examining the politics of inventing, a crucial but long ignored problem at the intersection of the history of technology, legal, political, and business history. The analysis of conflicts over the rights of inventors and the meaning of inventing from the 1920s to the 1950s reveals a deep chasm, reaching back to the late nineteenth century, between the forces of capital and big business on one hand and the exponents of intellectual capital - inventors, engineers, industrial scientists - on the other.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gispen, Kees

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables and Figures

Abbreviations

Epigraph

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I

Chapter 1. The Inventor in German Law and History: A Comparative Perspective

PART II

Chapter 2. Charting Survival: The Chemists' Contract of 1920

Chapter 3. Struggles and Setbacks, 1920-1924

Chapter 4. Compromise Found and Lost, 1925-1929

Chapter 5. Rationalization, National Socialism, and Inventors at IG Farben, 1925-1933

Chapter 6. The Great Depression and the Origins of Nazi Patent Reform, 1928-1932

PART III

Chapter 7. Heinrich Jebens and the Reich Inventor Office

Chapter 8. Nazi Revolution: The 1936 Patent Code

Chapter 9. Inventor Trusteeship in the Making, 1936-1940

Chapter 10. Inventor Trusteeship and the "Production Miracle", 1941-1944

Chapter 11. German Technological Culture and the Inventor Ordinances of 1942 and 1943

Chapter 12. "Appropriate Compensation"

PART V

Chapter 13. The Politics of Inventing after 1945

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gispen, Kees
Kees Gispen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of New Profession, Old Order: Engineers in German Society, 1815-1914 (1989) and many articles on the relationship between technology and society on modern Germany.