Deutschlands »Drang nach Südosten«

Der Mitteleuropäische Wirtschaftstag und der »Ergänzungsraum Südosteuropa« 1931–1945

von Carl Freytag

467 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In 1931, the heavy industry at Rhine and Ruhr took over the Berlin-based German section of the “Mitteleuropäischer Wirtschaftstag” (MWT). The president of the association, Tilo von Wilmowsky, was a protagonist of engineered and economically organized agriculture. He was also the brother-in-law of Gustav Krupp, giving him the ability to bring about a marriage between „manor and furnace“ and to discover – later with the help of IG-Farben director Max Ilgner and Ulrich von Hassell - a way out of the German crisis of export and agriculture.With distance to the racist policies of the NS-regime and partly in opposition to its foreign trade policies, 1931-1945 the MWT took part in the construction of a “Großwirtschaftsraum”, led by Germany. The MWT tried to retain the position of the “free entrepreneurship” in the context of “ordered capitalism”, and, at the same time, improved as a developing company the living conditions in the “Ergänzungsraum” South-East Europe by sustainable farming projects in order to create a suitable market for the goods of the MWT-members.

• Reihe: Zeitgeschichte im Kontext
• ISBN: 9783899719925
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2012
• Genre: Geschichte/20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
• Verlag: V&R unipress
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Oliver Rathkolb