Carl Friedrich von Siemens 1872-1941

Entrepreneur in an Age of Upheaval

Carl Friedrich von Siemens was one of the significant business figures in an era filled with crises and turmoil. He became Head of the House of Siemens after World War I and managed the company throughout the German Great Inflation and the Great Depression, as well as during the Third Reich and into the early years of World War II. This biography provides the first comprehensive portrait of the personality and diverse accomplishments of a man who reorganized the Siemens companies, headed the Reichsbahn national railroad for ten years, and served politically as a delegate from a democracy-supporting party. The study shows how he increasingly turned away from party politics, and how his position evolved yet again during the Third Reich, from compliance with the regime to a growing personal alienation.

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A democratically inclined industrialist in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich

Auteur
Johannes Bähr, born 1956, studied history and political science in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich. He earned his Dr. phil. in 1986 and won his professorial accreditation at the Free University of Berlin in 1998. Today he is an Adjunct Professor of Economic and Social History at the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main.

Résumé
Entrepreneur in an Age of Upheaval

Carl Friedrich von Siemens was one of the significant business figures in an era filled with crises and turmoil. He became Head of the House of Siemens after World War I and managed the company throughout the German Great Inflation and the Great Depression, as well as during the Third Reich and into the early years of World War II. This biography provides the first comprehensive portrait of the personality and diverse accomplishments of a man who reorganized the Siemens companies, headed the Reichsbahn national railroad for ten years, and served politically as a delegate from a democracy-supporting party. The study shows how he increasingly turned away from party politics, and how his position evolved yet again during the Third Reich, from compliance with the regime to a growing personal alienation.

Ausstattung: Zahlreiche Abbildungen in s/w und in Farbe