German business enterprises
The Deutsche Wirtschaftsbetriebe GmbH ( DWB ) were owned by the SS . It served as a holding company that held controlling interests in almost all relevant SS-owned operations. The holding structure made it possible to offset losses between different legally independent companies.
history
The DWB was a holding company founded on July 26, 1940 for more than 25 SS industrial companies. It was founded on the basis of an idea by the auditor Hans Hohberg . Oswald Pohl , head of the SS economic department (WVHA) , was the chairman of the board of the DWB. Georg Lörner , another senior WVHA official, was another founder. Through stock ownership, DWB controlled a large number of companies such as quarries, brick factories, cement mills, pharmaceutical factories, real estate, housing, building materials, letterpress printing and binding, porcelain and ceramics, mineral water and fruit juices, furniture, food, textiles and leather. Some of these businesses and properties had previously been confiscated or otherwise expropriated from their rightful owners.
structure
The holding company included:
- German Equipment Works GmbH (DAW)
- Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH (DEST)
- Ostindustrie GmbH (OSTI)
- Allach porcelain factory
- Mattoni
- Apollinaris
- Sudetenquell GmbH
- Anton Loibl GmbH
- Nordland publishing house
- Freudentaler Beverages GmbH
- German master workshops GmbH
literature
- Nicosia, Francis R., and Huener, Jonathan, Business and Industry in Nazi Germany , University of Vermont Center for Holocaust Studies Berghahn Books, 2004
- Wolfgang Sofsky : The order of terror: the concentration camp , Princeton University Press, 1996
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d Enno Georg: The economic enterprises of the SS. Walter de Gruyter, 2010, p. 71. ISBN 3-486-70376-5 ( limited preview in the Google book search).