Reich Office for Foreign Trade
The Reich Office for Foreign Trade was an authority of the German Reich in the time of National Socialism , which served state interventionism and the control of imports and exports .
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in February 1933, the new Reich government under Adolf Hitler geared economic policy to the needs of faster rearmament, which was intended to secure the support of the Reichswehr (→ Liebmann record ). The domestic market could soon be stimulated by corresponding arms contracts, but foreign trade stagnated since 1929/30. The import and export curve continued to decline and this was the reason why less foreign currency was received. However, these formed a necessary basis for the armaments industry , which it needed to acquire raw materials .
The National Socialist government therefore decided to use the scarce foreign exchange as efficiently as possible by restricting the tasks and competencies of the chambers of industry and commerce with the law on measures to promote foreign trade of October 18, 1933 and transferring them to state foreign trade offices. The new facilities, which had to be financed by the branches of industry themselves, had the task of acting as information and advice centers, collecting information of all kinds and promoting long-term cooperation between state authorities and industrial facilities. Later on, their duties also included regulating foreign trade in terms of quantities and prices, and ensuring that inland stocks were built up. The Reich Office for Foreign Trade was created for their coordination and management, which in turn was subordinate to the Foreign Office (responsible here Oskar Wingen ) and the Reich Ministry of Economics . Organizationally, a central office for foreign trade had existed since 1929, which now functioned as the core of the new authority and was only expanded. This organization represented a possibility for the state to intervene in foreign trade at will.
The foreign trade offices and the central Reich office for foreign trade carried out their functions until April 1, 1943. At this point in time, district economic chambers were created as new economic districts. In this former positions were integrated as foreign trade departments.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Erich Volkmann: Economy and Expansion. Basic features of Nazi economic policy , Munich 2003, p. 106 and the table p. 107
- ^ Reichsgesetzblatt , year 1933, Vol. I, p. 744
- ^ A b Hans Erich Volkmann: Economy and Expansion. Basic features of Nazi economic policy , Munich 2003, p. 107
- ^ Daniela Münkel : National Socialist Agrarian Policy and Farmer's Day , Frankfurt / Main 1996, p. 109
- ^ Daniela Kahn: The control of the economy by law in National Socialist Germany. The example of the Reichsgruppe Industrie , Frankfurt / Main 2006, p. 142
- ^ Daniela Kahn: The control of the economy by law in National Socialist Germany - The example of the Reichsgruppe Industrie , Frankfurt / Main 2006, p. 142, fn. 93
literature
- Daniela Kahn: The control of the economy by law in National Socialist Germany. The example of the Reichsgruppe Industrie. Klostermann Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2006, ISBN 3-465-04012-0 .
- Daniela Münkel : National Socialist Agricultural Policy and Everyday Farmers' Life. Campus-Verlag , Frankfurt / Main 1996, ISBN 3-593-35602-3 .
- Hans-Erich Volkmann : Economy and Expansion. Basic features of the Nazi economic policy. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56714-4 (= contributions to military history , vol. 58, on behalf of the Military History Research Office, edited by Bernhard Chiari).