Theodor Bühler

Theodor Josef Bühler (born March 5, 1904 in Feldkirch ; † after 1944) was a German economist and head of research at the AWI Institute of Ergonomics of the German Labor Front (DAF).

Bühler studied economics. In 1923 he joined the NSDAP . From 1928 he was editor of the weekly reports of the Institute for Economic Research (IfK) (until 1934) and from 1933 lecturer at the German University of Politics in Berlin. He was also a member of the social policy editorial team of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . In 1935, at the age of 31, he belonged to the “Working Group of Outstanding Sociopolitical Researchers” headed by Wolfgang Pohl . In September 1935, on the orders of Robert Ley, he set up the central archive for the new AWI, which contained the large archives of the dissolved unions . In 1936 he replaced Pohl there as the main department head for the research center and from 1940 onwards, under Pohl, he was named deputy head and general scientific adviser. He was the editor of the yearbook of the AWI and the monthly books for National Socialist social policy . With Pohl, he pointed to the connection between the standard of living and imperialist expansion, following the example of Ernst Francke , for which a “national dynamic” was necessary. During the Second World War, he set up efficient social research in all occupied areas in order to subdue them and make them usable for the German Reich . He had a decisive influence on the National Socialist understanding of social policy. For networking purposes, he set up seminars at the German University of Politics in Berlin. In November 1944 he took over the DAF “Social Responsibility” office from Theodor Hupfauer , which was supposed to settle social conflicts. His whereabouts are unknown.

Fonts

• Temporary cotton The basics of the cotton futures business , Krisch, 1931
• German social economy. An overview of the social tasks of the national economy , Kohlhammer, Berlin a. Stuttgart 1940
• From utopia to the welfare state , 1942
• The social structure of the enemies , (series of publications on ideological training work of the NSDAP; H. 32), 1943
• The international research of the Ergonomic Institute of the German Labor Front . Berlin 1942, published in Michael Hepp u. a .: Social strategies of the German Labor Front . Part B, Dept. 2: Memoranda, reports and publications of the Labor Science Institute of the DAF , edg. by the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century, Memorandum No. 43
• Basic questions of the European social order , " Zeitschrift für Politik ", volume 34 (1944), issue 7/8

literature

• Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century (Ed.): Arr. v. Michael Hepp u. KH Roth: Social strategies of the German labor front . Part B, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992
• Karl Heinz Roth : Intelligence and Social Policy in the "Third Reich". A methodological-historical study using the example of the Ergonomic Institute of the German Labor Front , [Diss. phil. University of Bremen], Munich et al. 1993
• Irene Raehlmann: Industrial Science in National Socialism. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14678-5
• Rüdiger Hachtmann : Petty bourgeois potbelly and broad bourgeois chest. On the social composition of the leadership elite of the German Labor Front , zeitgeschichte-digital.de (2017) doi : 10.14765 / zzf.dok.1.867 (First in: Solidarity community and culture of remembrance in the 20th century. Contributions to trade unions, National Socialism and historical politics , edited by Ursula Bitzegeio, Anja Kruke and Meik Woyke, Dietz, Bonn 2009, pp. 233–257)
• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 25 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).