Hugenberg Group

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The Hugenberg Group was a nationally conservative media group in Germany based in Berlin, which comprised advertising and news agencies, press services, press publishers and film companies.

Alfred Hugenberg , co-founder of the Pan-German Association and from 1928 chairman of the German National People's Party (DNVP), as chairman of the board of directors of Friedrich Krupp AG (1909-1918) systematically built up the Hugenberg group from 1916 when he took over the Scherl publishing house . In 1919 twelve DNVP members founded the business association for the promotion of intellectual reconstruction forces as the umbrella company of the Hugenberg group , which financed the group significantly.

Thanks to the media concentration gained, the extremely nationalist and anti-democratic propaganda spread by the Hugenberg Group reached large parts of the German population. The media empire Hugenberg is therefore considered the stirrup holder of the National Socialists and thus of Hitler. In the course of the 1930s, the NSDAP bought some parts of the Hugenberg group. In the Nazi state , the National Socialists gradually took control of the company, first in 1933 via the Telegraph Union . In 1937 Universum Film AG (UFA) was nationalized and in 1943 the Scherl-Verlag was transferred to party publishers.

See also

literature

  • Ludwig Bernhard : The "Hugenberg Group". Psychology and technology of a large organization of the press . Facsimile-Verlag, Bremen 1983 (reprint of the Berlin 1928 edition).
  • Heidrun Holzbach: The "Hugenberg System". The organ of bourgeois collection policy before the rise of the NSDAP . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-421-01986-X (plus dissertation, University of Munich 1979).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/inst/hugenberg.html Hugenberg Group in a diagram by Olaf Simons, database font and image 1900–1960, polunbi.de (accessed on July 13, 2012)