West German Industrialists and the Making of the Economic Miracle

Armin Grünbacher is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham, UK.

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: From War Criminals to Captains of Industry
Chapter 1: The ‘Missing Link’: The Role of Chambers of Industry and Commerce for Entrepreneurial Self-perception in the Immediate Post-war Period
Chapter 2: Ways of Redemption: Public Relations, the IHG and the DII

Part II: The Miracle Makers: Industrialists and their Self-perception in the ‘Economic Miracle’ Period
Chapter 3: The New ‘Entrepreneur’
Chapter 4: ‘Americanization’? Leadership Recruitment and Training
Chapter 5: Bürgerlichkeit: Culture and Honour, Upstarts and Old Elites
Chapter 6: Politics: Business, Association and the State

Part III: Business
Chapter 7: Living with the ‘Enemy’: Trade Unions, Worker representation and Communists
Chapter 8: Osthandel: Trading with the ‘Enemy’

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index