National Socialist Kampfbund for the commercial middle class
The National Socialist Fighting League for small and medium-sized businesses was an organization founded in late 1932 and early 1933 to bind small and medium-sized businesses to the NSDAP . In 1933 it was transferred to the National Socialist Crafts, Trade and Industry Organizations (NS-HAGO).
history
In accordance with the previous demands of the NSDAP, the Kampfbund fought department stores , consumer associations and corporations , especially those owned by Jews, and pretended to want to strengthen handicrafts and retail businesses by smashing large trading companies .
To this end, the Kampfbund organized boycott campaigns in March 1933. At the same time, the Kampfbund put pressure on the tops of existing SME associations. So he began to exercise control over these associations. Their leader was Theodor Adrian von Renteln .
The Kampfbund did not achieve its goal. In July 1933 the leadership of the NSDAP prohibited boycotts of department stores, including shops with owners of Jewish faith. One reason for turning away from its own ideology shortly after the Germany-wide boycott of Jews on April 1, 1933, was fear of job losses.
The aim of liquidating the cooperatives encountered resistance from Robert Ley , the leader of the German Labor Front , who for his part wanted to take over cooperatives and companies belonging to the workers' associations into the DAF.
The Nazi leadership did not fit the radical approach of the Kampfbund into their pseudo-legal concept. Therefore, Hermann Göring removed the leadership of the federal government towards the end of July 1933. The organization itself was transferred to the umbrella organization of the National Socialist handicrafts, trade and industry organizations in August 1933. These in turn were incorporated into the German Labor Front (DAF) in 1935.
See also
literature
- Wolfgang Benz : History of the Third Reich. Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-89331-449-0 , p. 47 partially digitized
- Christopher Kopper : Trade and Transport in the 20th Century. Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-55076-4 , p. 36 Partially digitized