Respectable Career of Fritz K.
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A01=Cornelia Rauh
A01=Hartmut Berghoff
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Author_Hartmut Berghoff
autobiography
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entrepreneur
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federal republic
german history
german politics
government and governing
historical
holocaust
jewish history
legal drama
lifetime
manufacturer
memoir
national socialism
nazi functionary
nazi history
nazi party
political
revolt
southern germany
successful manufacturer
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wwii
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- ISBN 9781782385936
- Weight: 676g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2015
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Entrepreneur and Nazi functionary Fritz Kiehn lived through almost 100 years of German history, from the Bismarck era to the late Bonn Republic. A successful manufacturer, Kiehn joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and obtained a number of influential posts after 1933, making him one of the most powerful Nazi functionaries in southern Germany. These posts allowed him ample opportunity to profit from "Aryanizations" and state contracts. After 1945, he restored his reputation, was close to Adenauer's CDU during Germany's economic miracle, and was a respected and honored citizen in Trossingen. Kiehn's biography provides a key to understanding the political upheavals of the 20th century, especially the workings of the corrupt Nazi system as well as the "coming to terms" with National Socialism in the Federal Republic.
Hartmut Berghoff is Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. and Professor of Economic History at the University of Gottingen in Germany. In 1998 he won the ABB-Wissenschaftspreis for his book on the harmonica manufacturer Hohner, Zwischen Kleinstadt und Weltmarkt. Most recently he co-edited Business in the Age of Extremes: Essays on the Economic History of Germany and Austria (Cambridge University Press, 2013). 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 fur Unternehmensgeschichte (GUG) prize. She has also published biographies of entrepreneurs and other books on 20th-century German and French history.
