1st Edition
Between Coercion and Private Initiative Entrepreneurial Freedom of Action during the ‘Third Reich’
Introduction: The room for manoeuvre for firms in the Third Reich
Ralf Banken
1. Sewing for Hitler? The clothing industry during the ‘Third Reich’
Roman Köster and Julia Schnaus
2. The Munich Re: an internationally-oriented reinsurer in the Nazi era
Christopher Kopper
3. A hard-to-untangle business conglomerate: The economic empire of the German labour front
Rüdiger Hachtmann
4. Between values orientation and economic logic: Bosch in the Third Reich
Johannes Bähr
5. Commercial expansion in the steel industry of World War II: The case of Henry J. Kaiser and Friedrich Flick
Tim Schanetzky
6. Property, control and room for manoeuvre: Royal Dutch Shell and Nazi Germany, 1933–1945
Marten Boon and Ben Wubs
Biography
Ralf Banken is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His scholarly work addresses the development of economic law in Germany in the twentieth century and specifically the development of economic policies during the Third Reich. He is the author of over a dozen scholarly articles and publications.
Roman Köster is Economic Historian and currently Senior Lecturer at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Munich, Germany. His research interests include the history of economic crises and the history of economic thought.
Ben Wubs is Professor of International Business History at Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is engaged in various research projects related to multinationals, business systems, transnational economic regions, Dutch-German economic relations, and the transnational fashion industry.
