Stega

The Stega (abbreviation for Statistical Society ) was the cover name of a secret organization of the Heereswaffenamt and the Reich Association of German Industry in the Weimar Republic . Contrary to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , it served the rearmament of Germany by planning to mobilize the armaments industry.

The organization

The Stega was founded on January 26, 1926. It consisted of the main commission and a number of regional commissions. The activity was voluntary. The first focus of work was the "Stega program", in which the manufacturing options for armaments were explored.

Members

Chairman

• Ernst von Borsig (Chairman of the Association of German Employers' Associations )

Main commission

• Coswig (owner of a textile company in Finsterwalde)
• Hans Eltze (General Director Rheinmetall )
• Paul von Gontard (planned, General Director of Berlin Karlsruher Industriewerke AG )
• Ewald Hilger (Treasurer of the Reich Association of German Industry )
• Georg Howaldt (Managing Director of the Association of German Shipyards)
• Rudolf Krell (Director at Siemens-Schuckert AG)
• Wilhelm Landmann (General Director of Westfälisch-Anhaltischen Sprengstoff-AG )
• Landt (Director of the Gothaer Waggonbau Factory)
• Oesterlen (Director at Friedrich Krupp AG )
• Konrad Piatschek (planned, general director of the German lignite industry association, board member of the RDI)
• Moritz Porten (General Director of Vereinigte Aluminumwerke AG)
• Raschig (Director of Siemens-Schuckert Protoswerke)
• Kurt Sorge (Director of Krupp AG)

Working Committee

• Wilhelm Landmann
• Quick
• Kurt concern
• Arbogast von Düring (Managing Director)

Head of the regional commissions

• Hamburg: Georg Howaldt
• Lübeck:?
• Bremen:?
• Szczecin: Hans Gottstein ( field mill )
• Hanover: Willy Tischbein (General Director of Continental-Gummi Werke AG , board member of RDI)
• Magdeburg: Martin Nathusius (owner of the Polte-Werke )
• Berlin: ?
• Koenigsberg:?
• Münster: Walter Borbet (General Director of the Bochum Association )
• Weimar:?
• Dresden:?
• Breslau: Carl Meinecke (Director of H. Meinecke AG)
• Stuttgart:?
• Munich: Gustav ter Meer (died before taking office)

literature

• Ernst Hansen: Reichswehr and Industry. Arms industry cooperation and economic mobilization preparations 1923–1932 . Harald Boldt, Boppard 1978 ISBN 3764616865 , passim