Hartmut Berghoff, Cornelia Rauh

The Respectable Career of Fritz K.

The Making and Remaking of a Provincial Nazi Leader

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Produktbeschreibung

Kiehn's biography provides a key to understanding the political upheavals of the twentieth century, especially the workings of the corrupt Nazi system as well as the "coming to terms" with National Socialism in the Federal Republic.

Produktdetails

• Studies in German History
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781789208467
• ISBN-10: 1789208467
• Artikelnr.: 58588546

Autorenporträt

Cornelia Rauh holds the Contemporary History Chair at the University of Hanover. She is the author of Katholisches Milieu und Kleinstadtgesellschaft (Thorbecke, 1991) and Suisse Aluminium for Hitler's War? The History of Alusuisse from 1918 to 1950 (Beck, 2009), which won the Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte (GUG) prize. She has also published biographies of entrepreneurs and other books on twentieth-century German and French history. Recently she has been researching the Nazi business of the Guelphs, an important family of the German high nobility.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
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