Economic policy department of the NSDAP
The economic policy department of the NSDAP was founded on January 31, 1931 and was based in Munich . She should work out an economic program for the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP); it was in competition with the “ Keppler Circle ” and the “ Arbeitsstelle Schacht ”, which also designed economic programs for the NSDAP.
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The head was the member of the management of the Reich Association of German Industry Otto Wagener . The department was headed by an economic council chaired by Walther Funk .
There were a total of 10 sub-departments: currency, finance, production, trade, business press, social policy, international economic policy, job creation, craft and trade, economic policy.
Employee
Employees were u. a .:
- Emil Georg von Stauß (General Director of Deutsche Bank )
- Walther Funk
- Gottfried Feder
- Hermann Cordemann
- Hans Hagemeyer
- Theodor Adrian von Renteln (Wagener's deputy)
- Werner Daitz
- Dietrich Klagges
- Fritz Reinhardt
- Fischer ( IG Farben )
- Gleiwitz (Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the United Hüttenwerke )
- from Lucke
- Emil Petzendorfer
external employees were:
- Jens Jessen (economist)
history
In 1932 the department drew up a new economic program that Hitler approved. Hitler decreed that all meetings of the department in which he took part were to be kept confidential.
As of January 1, 1931, the head of Otto Wagener published the NSDAP's " Economic Policy Press Service ", which was referred to by 60 industrialists (including Carl Duisberg , Friedrich Flick , Emil Kirdorf , Peter Klöckner , Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach , Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach , Fritz Thyssen , Albert Vögler ). According to Walther Funk, more than 2 million Reichsmarks flowed to the NSDAP through the press service during the Nuremberg Trial .