Operations manager (National Socialism)

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According to the definition by the law on the organization of national work of January 20, 1934, a manager was an entrepreneur, owner or manager of an industrial and craft enterprise or a farmer with his own business.

According to Cornelia Schmitz-Berning, the term “manager” was ideologically justified as follows in her standard work on vocabulary in National Socialism : The old struggle between employers and workers was to be eliminated and an operating unit of manager and followers was to be created. The manager was authorized to give instructions to the employees of his company ("followers") in internal issues, but had to answer to the state-appointed " trustee of work ", who had authority over questions of wage policy , working hours and working conditions. According to Section 38 of the Law on the Order of National Labor , a manager could also be removed by a “court of honor”. Internally, the Nazi economic constitution strengthened the employer's position , but his entrepreneurial freedom was massively restricted in favor of the state.

A decree of 1934 resulted in additional special tasks and rights for managers. In addition to the economic and technical requirements resulting from the respective operational purpose and objective, the managers had the right to punish Eastern workers in accordance with the Eastern Workers' Decree of February 20, 1942, and over Poland in accordance with the Polish decree . According to a leaflet, the operators were also obliged to report the unauthorized removal of Polish forced laborers to the responsible local police immediately.

In addition to this task, according to the ordinance on the elimination of Jews from German economic life of November 12, 1938, Jews were no longer allowed to be operators. Jews in management positions could be dismissed with six weeks' notice without compensation. The second ordinance for the implementation of the ordinance for the elimination of Jews from German economic life of December 14, 1939 also prohibited Jews from being deputy managers.

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  • Ordinance on the elimination of Jews from German economic life ( RGBl. Year 1938, part I, p. 1580) of November 12, 1938 alex.onb.ac.at [accessed on July 15, 2018]; in fracture .
  • Second ordinance for the implementation of the ordinance for the elimination of Jews from German economic life of December 14, 1939. ( RGBl. Jg. 1938, Part I, p. 1902) of December 14, 1938 ( alex.onb.ac.at [accessed on July 15, 2018]; in Fraktur ).

literature

  • Cornelia Schmitz-Berning: Vocabulary of National Socialism. de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-11-016888-X .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Hermann Graml , Hermann Weiß : Encyclopedia of National Socialism . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-608-91805-1 , p. 396, p. 697.