Southeast Europe Society (Vienna)

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The Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft ( SOEG ) was a German organization for the promotion of economic and cultural relations between Germany and the countries of Southeast Europe. It was founded on February 8, 1940 by Reich Minister of Economics Walther Funk in Vienna as an umbrella company. It was a state organization and was in competition with the private-sector Central European Business Day (MWT).

Competition with the MWT

After the founding of the SOEG, President Baldur von Schirach pushed for the dissolution of the MWT and its accession to the SOEG. Ulrich von Hassell noted in his diary on June 15, 1941:

“The crisis continues at MWT, which means less 'in' than 'around' him. Sharp advance by the party - Schirach and Funk - backed and practically very little useful Southeast European society in Vienna. It will be difficult to assert itself "

The managing director of the SOEG August Heinrichsbauer wrote that the MWT had “done its work mainly in the private sector”, on the other hand, the SOEG had “attached great importance to working in the overall interest” Hermann Reusch criticized that the MWT was “very good ” by Tilo von Wilmowsky clearly geared towards the export of Krupp ""

The dissolution of the MWT failed. The SOEG's finances were precarious. According to Carl Freytag's judgment, the SOEG never managed to get its real goal of industrial planning for Southeast Europe in hand. In the words of Tilo von Wilmowsky , it was little more than a “Viennese breakfast and lecture club without any economic impact”. Heinrichsbauer, too, judged after the war that the “Windei” SOEG could not do more than “just move the air”. Freytag describes different judgments, which the SOEG has a great influence, as "blatant misjudgments".

management

The line consisted of:

Bureau

In September 1942 the presidium included:

  • Wilhelm Zangen
  • Albert Pietzsch
  • Emil Puhl
  • Gustav Schlotterer
  • Carl August Clodius
  • Hans Fischböck
  • Franz Hayler
  • Heinrich Hunke
  • Philipp Wilhelm Jung
  • Ernst Kaltenbrunner
  • Ferdinand Schramm
  • Sigfried Uiberreither
  • Bernhard Adolf (General Director of the Chemical and Metallurgical Production Association Prague)
  • Wilhelm Anselm (Office for Technology of the NSDAP Vienna, Director of the Perlmoser cement works)
  • Theophil Gautier (Lieutenant General, Armaments Inspector of Military District XVII Vienna)
  • Emil Kreibisch (President of the Sudetenland Chamber of Commerce)
  • Karl Lange (Vice President of the Reichsbank)
  • Wilhelm Liebl (Chairman of the Association for Safeguarding Main and Danube Shipping Interests eV)
  • Werner Lorenz (President of the Association of Intergovernmental Associations and Institutions)
  • M. Mansfeld (Ministerial Director in the Reich Ministry of Labor)
  • Karl Mayerzedt (Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Food and Agriculture Group of the SOEG)
  • Moritz (Ministerial Director in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture)
  • Delbrügge (Member of the Presidium of the Society of Friends of the German Academy Vienna)

Affiliated organizations

At the beginning of September 1942, the following institutes, departments, groups and working groups were affiliated with the SOEG:

  • Committee for Economic and Scientific Planning (also called Industry Committee or Committee of Twelve)
  • Working group for questions on the Danube
  • Photogrammatic Institute
  • Food and Agriculture Group
  • Institute for Southeast Law
  • Cultural policy working group
  • Southeast Community of Vienna Universities
  • Open board
  • SOEG news service
  • Ulmansky work area with special tasks extension
  • Committee on Matters for the Rationalization of Corn Breeding in the Southeast States
  • SOEG information center for literature, stage and music
  • Insurance Committee
  • Price committee
  • Vienna Institute for Economic Research eV
  • Vienna Institute for Consumption and Sales Research eV
  • Southeast Agricultural Institute of SOEG eV
  • Southeast Institute for Forest and Wood Research of the SOEG
  • Research center for the south-east at the Montanistische Hochschule Leoben
  • Society of Friends of the German Academy in Vienna eV
  • Southeast seminar of the SOEG and the German Academy in Vienna eV
  • Association to safeguard Main and Danube shipping interests eV
  • Southeast Cooperative Institute of the SOEG

Seat

The first address in Vienna was the Villa Fürst at Hockegasse 73.

literature

  • Carl Freytag: Germany's “Drang nach Südost”, The Central German Business Day and the “Supplementary Area of ​​Southeast Europe” 1931–1945 . Göttingen 2012.
  • Wolfgang Schumann : Reach for Southeast Europe. New documents on the policy of German imperialism and militarism towards Southeast Europe in World War II . Berlin 1973.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted in Freytag, Drang nach Südosten, p. 297.
  2. ^ Letter from August Heinrichsbauer to the Berlin representative of the Southeast European Society Rudolf Kratz dated December 24, 1940. Printed in: Schumann, Griff, p. 107 f.
  3. ^ Freytag, Drang nach Südosten, p. 288.
  4. ↑ Quotation from Freytag, Drang nach Südosten, p. 310.
  5. ↑ Quotation from Freytag, Drang nach Südosten, p. 310.
  6. ↑ Freytag, Drang nach Südosten, p. 310.
  7. ↑ Schumann, Griff, p. 54.
  8. ↑ Schumann, Griff, p. 54 f.
  9. ↑ Schumann, Griff, p. 56.
  10. ↑ Freytag, Drang nach Südosten, p. 290.