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