General Council of Economy
The General Council of the Economy was a short-lived body that advised the Reich government in the National Socialist German Reich . According to Fritz Thyssen in his book "I paid Hitler", the council only met for a double session on September 20, 1933.
Members
Members of the council were:
- Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach
- Albert Vögler
- Carl Friedrich von Siemens
- Fritz Thyssen
- Kurt Freiherr von Schröder
- Carl Bosch
- Friedrich Reinhart
- August Diehn (General Director of the German Potash Association )
- August von Finck
- Otto Christian Fischer (President of the Central Association of the German Banking and Banking Industry)
- Carl Vincent Krogmann
- Albert Hackelsberger
- Carl Lüer
- Herbert Backe
- Eugen Böhringer (Director of Maximilianshütte)
- Robert Ley
- Hermann Reischle (leader of the agricultural trade and agricultural cooperatives)
Hitler's speech
At the meeting on September 20, 1933, the new Chancellor, Adolf Hitler , gave a lengthy speech in which he said, among other things:
“At all times the sword was the forerunner of the plow, power was the forerunner of the economy. That was the case in the past and will of course be the same in the future ”.
Web links
- Joachim Lilla : The End of the Provisional Reich Economic Council 1932–1934 and the General Council of Economy 1933. shoa.de, accessed on March 26, 2009 .
Footnotes
- ^ Fritz Thyssen : "I paid Hitler". London 1941, p. 166.
- ^ According to a report by the Wolff Telegraph Bureau (WTB) from July 15, 1933; Proof: Michael Wolffsohn: Industry and craft in conflict with state economic policy? Berlin 1977, pp. 138-139.
- ^ Hans-Erich Volkmann: Economy and Expansion . Munich 2003, p. 222.