The Respectable Career of Fritz K.
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-846-7 (ISBN)
Hartmut Berghoff is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Göttingen in Germany. From 2008 to 2015 he was the Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.. His latest book, together with Ingo Köhler, is Varieties of Family Business. Germany and the United States, Past and Present (Campus/University of Chicago Press, 2020). Recently he co-edited The Consumer on the Home Front: Second World War Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Explorations and Entanglements: Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I (Berghahn, 2019).
List of Figures
Foreword
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Kiehn’s Rise to the Middle Class: A Traveling Salesman Becomes a Factory Owner
Chapter 2. Rapid Ascent through the Nazi Ranks: From Local Party Leader to Reichstag Delegate
Chapter 3. Fritz Kiehn, “Leader of the Württemberg Economy”
Chapter 4. Riding Nazi Party Coattails: Kiehn’s Industrial Ambitions
Chapter 5. Between Corruption and Camaraderie: The National Socialist Campaign to Curb Abuses
Chapter 6. Kiehn and Gustav Schickedanz in the Race for Aryanization
Chapter 7. Wartime Deals and “Marriage Politics”
Chapter 8. “The King of Trossingen”: Fritz Kiehn as a Local Grandee in the Third Reich
Chapter 9. From “War Criminal No. 1” to Sought-After Employer
Chapter 10. “Scot-free, by the skin of their teeth”—Denazification and Compensation
Chapter 11. “Ripe for Satire”: Entering the Social Market Economy with Public Loans
Chapter 12. “Kiehn left no one behind”? The “Factory Community” as a Network of “Old Comrades”
Chapter 13. Honorable Citizen Again: Kiehn and the “Economic Miracle”
Chapter 14. The Twilight Years of an Honored West German
Chapter 15. Coming to Terms with the Past in the 21st Century
Conclusion: The (A)Typical Life of an Industrialist?
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.01.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies in German History |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78920-846-7 / 1789208467 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78920-846-7 / 9781789208467 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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