Job shaft

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The job slot (also job Dr. Schacht or job Dr. Kramer ) was in June 1932 by the German banker and politician Hjalmar Schacht founded and the " big industry funded" organization: they created for the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) an economic program .

The workplace

The job was financed by the industrialists Albert Vögler , Paul Reusch , Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach , Fritz Springorum and August Rosterg and the bankers Emil Georg von Stauß and Kurt Freiherr von Schröder , who each gave 3,000 Reichsmarks.

Schacht's goal was to win heavy industry support for the NSDAP. The background was the uncertainty of the economy with regard to the future economic policy of the Nazis. Therefore, Schacht wanted to develop an economic program for the Nazis, "which industry and trade can participate".

With the development of the economic program, Dr. Carl Krämer from the "Hamburger Wirtschaftsdienst" entrusted. The job was at Schöneberger Ufer 39 in Berlin , in an office community with the “Central Office for Europe” of the Central European Business Day and the editorial team of the German Führerbriefe . Directly opposite was the headquarters of the Reich Association of German Industry .

The first two drafts of Kramer's were entitled: "Experiences with Devalvation in England" and "Introduction of Trade Monopolies ".

The job was in competition with the economic policy department of the NSDAP and the Keppler district , which also drafted economic programs.

Economic program

In 1932 Schacht's book “Principles of German Economic Policy” was published. In it he made the following demands for overcoming the global economic crisis :

  • Stop the foreign debt
  • Tax cut for companies
  • Reduction of bureaucracy
  • Abolition of collectively agreed wages and working time limits
  • Restriction of social benefits, replacement with charity
  • Currency coverage through loans
  • Rejection of free money creation
  • no restrictions on income and wealth
  • Control of the interest rate
  • Promotion of the ability to fight and the will to fight
  • Promotion of self-sufficiency , but not a complete departure from the world market
  • Germany's self-sufficiency with food
  • Return of the colonies

Assessment in research

In the Marxist research the job takes an important place, because they prove yet that the economic program of the Nazis determined by the economy and was written. In Western historiography, on the other hand, the job is dismissed as a “torso” whose significance for the end of the Weimar Republic can be “forgotten”.

literature

  • Dirk Stegmann: On the relationship between large-scale industry and National Socialism 1930-1933 . In Archive for Social History XIII, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter from Schacht to Reusch dated June 6, 1932; Printed by: Kurt Koszyk: Paul Reusch and the “Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten” - On the problem of industry and the press in the final phase of the Weimar Republic . in: VfZ 1/1972, p. 99 f. online (PDF; 5.5 MB)
  2. ^ Letter from Schacht to Hitler of April 12, 1932 and Schacht's letter to Paul Reusch of March 18, 1932; both printed by: Dirk Stegmann: On the relationship between large-scale industry and National Socialism 1930-1933. In: Archive for Social History XIII, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973, p. 449 ff.
  3. ^ Manfred Asendorf: Hamburger Nationalklub, Keppler-Kreis, Arbeitsstelle Schacht and the rise of Hitler, Reinhard Opitz in memory (July 2, 1934 - April 3, 1986) . in: 1999, Journal for Social History of the 20th and 21st Centuries, 3/87, pp. 106–150.
  4. ^ Hjalmar Schacht: Principles of German economic policy . Oldenburg 1932 (order as in the original)
  5. Reinhard Neebe: Big industry and the seizure of power . In: Wolfgang Michalka (Hrsg.): The National Socialist seizure of power . Paderborn 1984, p. 116.
  6. Volker Hentschel: Weimar's last months . Düsseldorf 1978, p. 127.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '20.48 "  N , 13 ° 22' 8.24"  E