Paul Binder

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Paul Binder (* 29. July 1902 in Stuttgart , † 25. March 1981 ) was a German politician of the CDU .

Paul Binder (center) and the other members of the Expert Council, February 1964

Life and work

Binder, who was of Protestant Lutheran faith, studied law and economics at the universities in Tübingen , Rostock and Dijon . In 1932 he received his doctorate in Tübingen. There he was a member of the Tübingen student union Akademische Gesellschaft Stuttgardia, which is closely related to southern German liberalism . From 1937 to 1941 he was deputy director at Dresdner Bank in Berlin and headed the “Central Office for Aryanization ” of Jewish assets. In particular, he disclosed to non-Jewish takeover prospects, usually competitors in the respective industry, their internal economic data before the formal takeover of the companies. In May 1938 he learned from the Reich Ministry of Economics that all "non-Aryan" businesses would soon be liquidated below their value and, by traveling throughout the Reich, he mediated personally on site in order to avoid written evidence, with the help of the local NSDAP organization ( their so-called economic advisors) the companies to the buyers prepared in this way. For real estate, only the unit value should be paid.

From 1941 onwards, as an independent auditor, he dealt with the utilization of liquidated assets in the conquered eastern regions, especially of industrial companies. Binder was a member of the DAF and the NSBDT . He worked primarily with SS- owned companies. His second job was for armaments companies, mainly from Hermann Göring's area, the Reich Ministry of Aviation and submarine construction. Binder had its own bases in Warsaw, Krakow and Amsterdam as well as in Ebingen, the family seat. From April 1944 he made plans with Ludwig Erhard and his "Institute for Industrial Research" (a branch of the "Reichsgruppe Industrie") about how the looted property could be used even after a possible defeat in the war. At the end of the war, with all the documents, he managed to withdraw to Württemberg in time and settled in Tübingen, in the French occupation zone. Here he was safe from investigations by the US occupation authorities "Financial Investigation Security" into his previous acquisitions.

In 1945 he was commissioned by France to become "State Director for Finance" in Württemberg-Hohenzollern , based in Tübingen. In 1946/47 he became State Secretary for Finance and Vice President of the “State Secretariat for the French-occupied Territory of Württemberg and Hohenzollern”, a provisional government under occupation law, as deputy to Carlo Schmid . When Kurt Georg Kiesinger asked him for a “ clean bill of health ” - he wanted to pursue a university career - Binder refused, because he had been a member of the NSDAP. In 1946, Binder joined the CDU. In May 1947, the French discovered who he was and he was released. Later he took over the trusteeship of the Stuttgart branch of Deutsche Bank .

From January 1964 to February 1968, Binder was appointed a member of the Advisory Council for the Assessment of Macroeconomic Development in the Federal Republic (“The Five Economic Ways”).

MP

From 1946 to 1947 Binder was a member of the Advisory State Assembly and then until 1952 in the State Parliament of Württemberg-Hohenzollern . 1948/49 Binder was also chairman of the committee for financial questions of the parliamentary council for the drafting of the basic law . In 1953, Binder moved into the first state parliament of Baden-Württemberg as the successor to Hermann Dold in the Tuttlingen constituency . Binder was also a member of the second state parliament (1956 to 1960), this time for the constituency of Balingen .

Publications (selection)

  • History of tobacco taxation in the Zollverein: According to the files. Dissertation at the University of Tübingen in 1932.
  • The levers of the economy. Use of purchasing power and suspension of purchasing power as determinants of national income. Oldenbourg, Munich 1939.
  • with Hermann Reinbothe, Alfons Wetter : The currency reform Laws for the reorganization of the monetary system and taxes: Currency law, emission law, conversion law and tax reform law with supplementary and Implementing Regulations. Schäffer, Stuttgart 1949.
  • with Heinrich Krumm , Karl Christian Thalheim : Economic preparation for reunification with the Soviet zone. Report on the 10th working conference of the working group of independent entrepreneurs in Bonn, May 16, 1952. Vita, Heidelberg-Ziegelhausen 1952.
  • The stabilization of the economy. Seewald, Stuttgart 1956.
  • The US and us. Economy, foreign trade, politics. Seewald, Stuttgart 1956.
  • Purchasing power, productivity, free capital formation. The focal points of current economic policy. Seewald, Stuttgart 1956.
  • The Federal Railroad and its competitors. 2nd edition Seewald, Stuttgart-Degerloch 1961.
  • Critique of traditional economic theory and the conventional. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-428-03460-0 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ See the entry of Paul Binder's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

literature

  • Otto Kopp: Resistance and Renewal. H. Seewald, Stuttgart 1966.
  • Hermann G. Abmayr: Paul Binder . In: Stuttgart Nazi perpetrators. From fellow travelers to mass murderers , Schmetterling, Stuttgart 2000 ISBN 3-89657-136-2 p. 268 ff.
    • Excerpts (see the chapter on Binder The Nazi and the Constitution ) in context: weekly newspaper , 2./3. June 2012, p. 3 ( kontext-wochenzeitung.de ).
  • Reinhard Opitz : European strategies of German capital 1900-1945. Appendix: Transition to the history of the FRG. Excerpts from: Karl Albrecht, Lebenserinnerungen, Econ 1984, ISBN 3-430-11032-7 with exec. Comment from Opitz zu Binder, p. 1046, note 4, especially on his Aryanization activities.

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personal data
SURNAME Binder, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1981
Place of death Stuttgart