The Respectable Career of Fritz K. : : The Making and Remaking of a Provincial Nazi Leader / / Cornelia Rauh, Hartmut Berghoff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Berghoff, Hartmut,; Rauh, Cornelia,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in German History ; 18
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

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 twentieth century, especially the workings of the corrupt Nazi system as well as the “coming to terms” with National Socialism in the Federal Republic.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- 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 Between Gleichschaltung and the Part y Purge of 1934: Fritz Kiehn Becomes “Leader of the Württemberg Economy” -- Chapter 4 Riding Nazi Part y 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 Honored 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 Twenty-First Century -- Conclusion: The (A)Typical Life of an Industrialist? -- Bibliography -- Index