Entry by the Economic Policy Association Frankfurt am Main

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The submission of the Economic Policy Association Frankfurt am Main was a letter that the Economic Policy Association Frankfurt am Main addressed to Reich President Paul von Hindenburg on July 17, 1931 at the height of the German banking crisis, requesting that the government be transferred to the NSDAP . The letter was forwarded to Hindenburg with an accompanying letter dated July 24, 1931 from Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz , a former Free Corps leader and member of the United Patriotic Associations .

Signatory

The signatories were:

Not a single one of the ten signatories was a major industry representative. Rather, most of them were small and medium-sized enterprises and members of middle management.

Evaluation in research

The historical scholarship of the GDR cited the submission (similar to the industrialists' submission of November 1932) as evidence that large-scale industry had made a decisive contribution to the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor . To this end, the functions, had some of the signatories, has also been upgraded falsely Wilhelm Traupel was here as a representative Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach called, although he by many in the Group as an authorized agent only responsibility for the sale of agricultural machinery contributed and Krupp had always kept his distance from the National Socialists until 1933. A few weeks after his signing, the staunch National Socialist Traupel moved from the heavy industrial group to the management of the NSDAP's own "Frankfurter Volksblatt". Hans Geisow figured in Marxist research as a representative of the powerful IG Farben company - in truth he was only employed there as a chemist until 1931 . At the time of submission, he was the full-time head of the popular education department in the Gau leadership of the NSDAP Hessen-Nassau.

An influence on Hindenburg through writing, which did not correspond to the goals of the great majority of the large German industrialists, cannot be determined.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The text of the entry is printed by: Lothar Berthold: The KPD's program for the national and social liberation of the German people from August 1930 . Berlin 1956, p. 188 f.
  2. ↑ Kurt Schützle: Reichswehr against the Nation, On the role of the Reichswehr in the preparation and establishment of the fascist dictatorship in Germany (1929-1933) . Berlin 1963, p. 116.
  3. ↑ also on the following Henry Ashby Turner : The big entrepreneurs and the rise of Hitler . Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1985, p. 483.
  4. ↑ for example: Wolfgang Ruge : Germany 1917–1933 . Berlin 1967, p. 412.
  5. ↑ A list of all authorized representatives of the Krupp Group at Uwe Kessler: On the history of management at Krupp. From the beginning of the company to the dissolution of Fried. Krupp AG (1811-1943) . Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1995, p. 192 f.
  6. ^ Peter Sandner: Administration of the murder of the sick: the district association Nassau in the national socialism . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2003. P. 91f online ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 981 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lwv-hessen.de
  7. ↑ Henry Ashby Turner : The Big Entrepreneurs and the Rise of Hitler . Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1985, p. 483.
  8. ↑ On the status of research on the relationship between industry and the NSDAP before 1933, cf. Eberhard Kolb : The Weimar Republic . R. Oldenbourg Verlag , 6th revised. and exp. Ed., Munich 2002, p. 226 ff.