Alpen-Elektrowerke
The Alpine Elektrowerke-AG (AEW) was a 1938 to 1946 existing group that with the construction of large power plants and high-voltage lines in Austria (and partly also on Bavarian territory was involved). The AEW became the forerunner of 1947 as part of the nationalization in Austria founded the Austrian electricity-AG .
history
After Austria was annexed to the National Socialist German Reich in March 1938, the electricity industry in Austria was reorganized according to the Nazi German model. German energy industry law was introduced in Austria, and the German state-owned company VIAG , 100% owned by the Reich Ministry of Economics , founded the new subsidiary Alpen-Elektrowerke-AG on April 22, 1938. It was supposed to build power plants and an interconnected network and to standardize the structure of the electricity industry through equity stakes in the existing Austrian national electricity companies and thus ensure centralized control according to the needs of the industry.
AEW almost immediately took over all electrical interests of the largest Austrian banks ( Österreichische Creditanstalt-Wiener Bankverein and Österreichische Industriekredit AG ) and subsequently very quickly took over the majority in the various national companies.
After the end of the Second World War , the ownership of the AEW was transferred to the Österreichische Elektrizitätswirtschafts-AG, founded on that day, in accordance with the 2nd Nationalization Act of March 26, 1947, and from this until 1957, as a final regulation regarding the so-called former "German property" was taken in Austria, administered in trust.
literature
- Oliver Rathkolb, Florian Freund (ed.): Nazi forced labor in the electricity industry of the "Ostmark" 1938-1945 . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar, 2nd edition, 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-79571-1
- Georg Riegle: Electricity - Natural Gas - Atom. Three focal points on the energy history of Lower Austria in the 20th century. In: Peter Melichar u. a. (Ed.): Lower Austria in the 20th century; Volume 2: Economy . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar, 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78246-9 , pp. 405–448 (here: 412)
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Alpen-Elektrowerke in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .