Association for Free Economy
The Association for Free Economy (VffW) was an economic-political interest organization in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s.
The VffW was established around 1925/26 - as the successor organization of the Kienzl office - with significant participation by the Association of German Employers' Associations with its headquarters in Berlin . Their task was the collection and evaluation of printed materials (newspapers, magazines, advertising brochures, etc.) as well as internal informers' reports on topics of economic and social life and in particular on the labor movement . The VffW acted largely in secret, but occasionally went public with "educational brochures". At the end of 1933 the activities of the Vereinigung für Freie Wirtschaft eV were stopped again.
The remains of the VffW were confiscated by the Red Army in 1945 and ended up in the Moscow Special Archives as Fund 516 . A large part of the holdings was given to the GDR in 1959, came to the Potsdam State Archives and is now in the Federal Archives as holdings R 8051 . Other parts went to various Soviet institutions: the Institute for Marxism-Leninism , the Archives of the Interior Ministry and the Central Committee of the CPSU. The remainder is still in the special archive.
Publication of the organization
- The organization of the communist world party, explained using the German example . Association for Free Economy, Berlin 1930.
literature
- Reiner Zilkenat : Association for Free Economy eV In: Messages of the support group archives and libraries for the history of the labor movement , issue 40 (2011), September, ISSN 1869-3709