Film credit bank

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The Filmkreditbank GmbH (FKB), founded on June 1, 1933, served as a funding agency for film projects in National Socialist Germany .

The problem of film financing was already known in the Weimar Republic and the establishment of a special film bank was not an idea of National Socialist film policy , but of the leading organization of the film industry (SPIO), which the new rulers only had to take up after 1933. The Filmkreditbank represented banks and other capital providers in trust and in return bore their risk; the state did not need to provide its own funds. In addition to state officials from the Ministry of Propaganda and the Ministry of Economics, the supervisory board of the Filmkreditbank included high representatives from the film industry and the major banks involved. The purpose of the Filmkreditbank was on the one hand to arouse trust and approval among the representatives of the film industry, on the other hand it guaranteed the exclusion of politically undesirable content and persons from financial support. At first the Filmkreditbank contributed up to 70% of the production costs, later it only gave 30% credit.

Vice-President of the Filmkreditbank was the press chief and state secretary in the Propaganda Ministry and later Reich Minister of Economics and Reichsbank President Walther Funk .

After the National Socialist state bought Ufa , the Filmkreditbank lost its importance.

literature

  • Gerd Albrecht: National Socialist Film Policy. A sociological study of the feature films of the Third Reich. Enke, Stuttgart 1969.
  • Jürgen Spiker: Film and Capital. The path of the German film industry to the national socialist group of companies. Volker Spiess, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-920889-04-5 ( On the political economy of Nazi films 2), (At the same time: Münster, Univ., Diss., 1972).

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