Bormann Committee

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The Bormann Committee was an institution under the leadership of the Reichsleiter and head of the party chancellery Martin Bormann in the period 1942/1943, with which the influence of the NSDAP on the major Berlin banks should be increased.

In the course of 1942 there were efforts by Gau economic advisors who took a radical stance towards the major Berlin banks and openly called for them to be broken up. In a letter dated August 8, 1942, Bormann therefore turned to the Reich Minister of Economics, Walther Funk , to demand a "National Socialist orientation" in the private banks.

Towards the end of 1942, Funk commissioned the Ministerial Director and Vice-President of the Reichsbank, Kurt Lange , to found this committee and to take the necessary steps to recruit new staff. When the order was placed with Lange, Funk had informed him that Bormann did not wish to put any pressure on the banks for this project.

The Bormann Committee , which was organized at the NSDAP Reichsleitung in Munich, began its work at the beginning of 1943, whereby the personnel was made up exclusively of regional economic advisors. Lange was sworn to an oath in the Wilhelmstrasse trial in 1947. He called the committee called the Bormann Bank Committee .

Lange reported that a number of discussions had taken place with representatives of banks in order to achieve the personnel changes requested by the committee. He also referred to discussions with representatives of Dresdner Bank . Lange stated in his testimony that Carl Goetz , Carl Lüer and Karl Rasche had assured him that they managed Dresdner Bank in such a way that it would serve the Nazi party . This distanced statement from Lange in 1947, however, was in contrast to his attitude at the time, because Lange enjoyed the trust of Bormann and was considered a careerist in the party book .

However, the representatives of Dresdner Bank rejected new appointments in the management of the bank with people who would not have any experience in banking.

literature

  • Johannes Bähr, The Dresdner Bank in the Economy of the Third Reich , Volume 1, Munich 2006
  • From the declaration under oath by Kurt Lange, at the time Vice-President of the Reichsbank Directorate, in the Nuremberg Wilhelmstrasse Trial (1947) about the Bormann Bank Committee , in: Dietrich Eichholtz, Wolfgang Schumann (ed.), Anatomie des Krieges, Berlin 1969