Board of Trustees for the Reconstruction of German Economic Life
The Kuratorium for the Reconstruction of German Economic Life (KfW) was a lobby organization founded in December 1918 for liberal German industrialists and bankers in the Weimar Republic .
The Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees was founded after the November Revolution under the leadership of Carl Friedrich von Siemens to finance political parties. The left-liberal DDP was particularly supported.
For the election to the German National Assembly in 1919, 4.8 million Reichsmarks were raised. Of this, the DDP received 1 million and the DVP and DNVP each received 500,000 Reichsmarks. For the 1928 Reichstag election , the Board of Trustees supported six politicians from the DDP, five from the DVP and one from the DNVP.
In 1924 12 candidates from the DNVP, 18 from the DVP, 11 from the DDP and 5 from the Center were supported and the funds were distributed according to this key.
Members
- Carl Friedrich von Siemens
- Emil Georg von Stauß
- Ernst Borsig
- Felix German ( AEG )
- Hans von Raumer
- Eduard Mosler
- Hugo Cassirer (Dr. Cassirer & Co.AG)
- Sally Segal (Rütgerswerke AG)
- Max Levy
- Otto Frentzel
literature
- Christof Biggeleben: The "bulwark of the bourgeoisie": The Berlin merchants 1870–1920. , Munich 2006, p. 402. (Dissertation, series of publications on the journal for corporate history, vol. 17) online