Central trading company east for agricultural sales and needs

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The Zentralhandelsgesellschaft Ost for agricultural sales and requirements mbH . (ZHO; also: ZO) was a German monopoly company for the purchase and sale of agricultural products in the areas of the Soviet Union occupied by German troops during the Second World War .

founding

The company was founded on July 17, 1941 in Berlin on the initiative of the commissioner for the four-year plan , Hermann Göring . The company was part of the Eastern Economic Organization and one of many private or semi-state Eastern companies that were appointed as temporary trustees and received monopolies for entire industries in the occupied eastern territories. Most of the founding capital was provided from state funds and a minority from private funds from the semi-state Reichsgruppe Handel . The six shareholders of the ZO were associations from the German agricultural sector and from trade.

The general director of the ZO was Leonhard Fleischberger , who, after the Second World War, was a board member of the Süddeutsche Zucker-AG, Mannheim. The supervisory board of the ZO included as chairman Wilhelm Küper, head of the department of registration of the chief group agriculture in the economic staff east, as deputy chairman the head of the Reichsgruppe Handel Franz Hayler , furthermore Gustav Schlotterer as well as various agricultural economists and bank managers belonged.

Tasks and activities

The business purpose was the commercial and technical implementation of the food industry in the areas of the Soviet Union occupied by Germany. In addition to the central collection, storage and transport of agricultural products, she was responsible for looking after the processing and processing of the food industry. She was also responsible for supplying agriculture with means of production and consumer goods. The political control of the food industry for the civil sector lay with the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories or its subordinate departments and for the part under military administration with the Economic Staff East or the economic inspections and commandos. From here the economic policy instructions regarding the delivery quantities and their use as well as the management of the trust operations were issued .

In the summer of 1943 the company employed around 6,500 German and around 500,000 Russian workers. The chemist August Becker worked for the company after 1942.

Holdings

The Zentralhandelsgesellschaft Ost for agricultural sales and requirements mbH was, among other things, a partner in the Ost-Faser-Gesellschaft mbH .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustavo Corni: Bread - Butter - Cannons. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-050-07249-4 , p. 537 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Christian Gerlach, "Calculated Morde: The German Economic and Annihilation Policy in Belarus 1941 to 1944", Hamburger Edition HIS Verlagsges. mbH, Hamburg 1999, p. 57
  3. ↑ Christian Gerlach, "Calculated Morde: The German Economic and Annihilation Policy in Belarus 1941 to 1944", Hamburger Edition HIS Verlagsges. mbH, Hamburg 1999, p. 57
  4. ↑ Gustav Corni, Horst Gies: Bread - Butter - Cannons. The food industry in Germany under Hitler's dictatorship . S. 537 .

literature

Gustavo Corni, Horst Gies: Bread - Butter - Cannons. The food industry in Germany under Hitler's dictatorship . De Gruyter, 1997, ISBN 3-05-002933-1 , p. 644 .