Society for European economic planning and large-scale economy
The Society for European Economic Planning and Greater Industry Association ( GEWG ) was an institution, the foreign trade in September 1939 by the Head of the Foreign Affairs Office of the NSDAP , Werner Daitz in Dresden was founded.
Task of society
This society had the task of underpinning the expansion of its sphere of influence to other European countries through a conception of the "new order of Europe" and the development of methods for the formation of a European "large economic area" under German leadership (cf. . National Socialist European Plans ).
The statutes of this society provided that cooperation between peoples and states in economic and cultural areas should be promoted as planned. Furthermore, economic structures and the resulting possibilities of a mutual complement, including their livelihoods, should be researched.
As a further continuation of these activities, the "Central Institute for National Economic Planning, Economic Control and Large-Scale Economics eV" emerged from this society in February 1941, based in Dresden, which in 1942 was called the "Central Research Institute for National Economic Order and Large Area Economics".
The company evidently developed its own environment of activity. She built economic advisory boards on the level of the Gaue. At the beginning of 1942 it was planned to build up company structures below the Gaue. On January 15, 1942, however, the Reichsgruppe Industrie prohibited further developments of this type of structure in a circular .
The GeWG published a magazine in which the contributions of the deliberations of the society and its business activities were published.
Structure of the GeWG in 1942
Board
- Werner Daitz, envoy and president
- Ralf Brockhausen , first chairman
- Alexander Bertelsson, Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Leader ring
The Führerring had the task of aligning society with its goals.
- Werner Daitz, President of the Führerring
Other members of the Führerring were u. a .:
- State Secretary Friedrich Alpers in the Reich Forestry Office
- State Secretary Herbert Backe , Reichsbauernführer
- Ministerial Director Werner Best , Head of War Administration in Paris
- Ministerial Director and State Councilor Wilhelm Börger , Reich Labor Ministry
- State Secretary Roland Freisler , Reich Ministry of Justice
- Prime Minister a. D. Walter Granzow , President of the Deutsche Rentenbank
- Admiral Otto Groos , Wehrmacht High Command (OKW)
- Ministerialrat Martin Hammitzsch , director of the Dresden State Building School
- Ministerialdirektor Heinrich Hunke , from the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda , later (after 1945) ministerial director of Lower Saxony (FRG)
- State Secretary a. D. Wilhelm Kleinmann
- State Secretary on behalf of Gustav Koenigs
- Ministerialdirigent Wilhelm Marotzke , staff of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring
- Ministerialdirektor Willy Meerwald , personal advisor to Adolf Hitler
- Ministerial Director Rudolf Mentzel , President of the German Research Foundation
- State Secretary Hermann Muhs , Reich Office for Spatial Planning
- Ministerial Director Willi Parchmann , Reich Forestry Office
- Head of the Reich Main Office Hermann Reischle , Main Office " Blood and Soil " in the Reich Office for Agricultural Policy
- General Commissioner Claus Selzner , General Commissioner Dnepropetrovsk
- State Secretary Wilhelm Stuckart , Reich Ministry of the Interior
- State Secretary Friedrich Syrup , Reich Ministry of Labor
- State Secretary Hans von Tschammer und Osten , President of the German-Italian Society
- Theodor Vahlen , President of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
Scientific Advisory Board
This advisory board had the task of promoting and supporting the research and planning work. He owned u. a. on:
- Theodor Vahlen, as chairman
- Andreas Predöhl , Director of the Institute for the World Economy at the University of Kiel, Deputy Chairman
- Wilhelm Hedemann , Director at the Institute for Business Law at the University of Berlin
- Franz Heske , Director at the Reich Institute for Foreign and Colonial Forestry in Reinbek
- Reinhard Höhn , director at the Institute for State Research at the University of Berlin
- Ernst Kelter , director of the Department of Economic History at the University of Munich
- Walter Lörch, director of the Central Europe Institute in Dresden
- Fritz Rörig , Director of the History Department at the University of Berlin
- Erwin Scheu , Rector of the Königsberg Commercial College
- Carl Schmitt , State Councilor, member of the Academy for German Law
- Karl Christian Thalheim , Director of the World Economic Institute at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Publications
- Karl Krüger: The motorization of Russia , Dresden 1940
- Walter von Molo : A German without Germany. Friedrich List - novel . Hamburg 1940
- The new Europe. Contributions to the national economic order and large-scale economy. Dresden 1941
- Carlo Scarfoglio : England and the Mainland . Preface: Werner Daitz. Series: The New Europe. Series of publications by the Society for European Economic Planning, 2nd ed .: Society for European Economic Planning and Greater Space Economy, Leipzig 1941
- Hans S. von Heister: National economic order and large-scale economy . Leipzig 1942
- Felix Kühl (edit.): Communications from the Central Research Institute for National Economic Order and Greater Economy. 1943. Ed. Central Research Institute for National Economic Order and Greater Economy in Dresden.
Secondary literature
- Dieter Fricke (Hrsg.): Lexicon for the history of parties. Volume 3. Leipzig 1985
- Announcement of the composition of the board of directors, the ring of leaders and the scientific advisory board of the 'Society for European Economic Planning and Large Space Economy' in 1942 , in: Reinhard Opitz (Ed.): Europastrategien des Deutschen Kapitals 1900–1945, Cologne 1977 ISBN 3-7609-0225- 1
- Daniela Kahn: The control of the economy by law in National Socialist Germany. The example of the "Reichsgruppe Industrie". Frankfurt 2006
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Society for European Economic Planning and Greater Economy in the 20th Century Press Kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
notes
- ↑ Authors: Werner Daitz, Theodor Vahlen, Gerhard Gebhardt, Willi Parchmann, Franz Heske, Walter Hübener, Wilhelm Kleinmann, Gustav Koenigs, Carl August Frhr. from Gablenz ; Rudolf Hoffmann: The planning of the Reichsautobahn network . ; Karl Krüger, Carl Clodius, Andreas Predöhl , Karl Christian Thalheim, Bruno Kiesewetter , Karl Schiller , later ministers in the Federal Republic of Germany at the federal level: from commercial contracts to commercial contracts. ; Erwin Scheu, Martin Pfannschmidt, Gerhard Knoll , Fritz Rörig, Johannes Klöcking , Carlo Scarfoglio. Topics include a .: On the European market organization; To the European traffic regulations; On European economic and trade policy; For European living and spatial design; On the history of the European metropolitan economy
- ^ Carlo Scarfoglio was a supporter of the fascist Ezra Pound
- ↑ Contents: Klaus-Wilhelm Rath : On the way to the national economic order ; Werner Daitz: Real and fake large spaces. Laws of living space ; Roland Freisler: On the law of the European order ; Reinhard Höhn: Empire, Greater Area, Great Power ; Wolfram Doellen: The importance of the east for the European metropolitan economy ; Heinrich Bechtel: Lifestyle and economic style of the early colonial times of the 16th and 17th centuries
- ↑ this was a competing institute
- ↑ With a note: "Not for publication." Authors: Werner Daitz, Friedrich Lenz, Thorwald Knudsen, Adolf Ratenieks, Johann von Leers , Hans S. von Heister, Karl Christian Thalheim, Arno Sölter, Eugen von Mickwitz, Walter Weigmann , Alexander Bertelsson, Jürgen von Kempski and the publisher - Kempski discusses on 5 pages the Zs. "Reich, Volksordnung, Lebensraum" of Daitz u. a. and he discusses the open-plan definition at Carl Schmitt. He views Daitz "critically", which suggests minor differences among the National Socialists.