Deutschlands »Drang nach Südosten«

Der Mitteleuropäische Wirtschaftstag und der »Ergänzungsraum Südosteuropa« 1931–1945

By (author) Carl Freytag Series edited by Oliver Rathkolb

Book cover: Deutschlands »Drang nach Südosten«

Extent: 467 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(September 2012)

ISBN: 9783899719925

6.42 x 9.65 inches

Price: $119.00

Out of stock

Eine Agentur des freien Unternehmertums fur den Sudosteuropa-Handel in der Weimarer Republik und der NS-Zeit


In 1931, the heavy industry at Rhine and Ruhr took over the Berlin-based German section of the Mitteleuropaischer Wirtschaftstag (MWT). The president of the association, Tilo von Wilmowsky, was a protagonist of engineered and economically organized agriculture. He was also the brother-in-law of Gustav Krupp, giving him the ability to bring about a marriage between amanor and furnace and to discover – later with the help of IG-Farben director Max Ilgner and Ulrich von Hassell – a way out of the German crisis of export and agriculture. With distance to the racist policies of the NS-regime and partly in opposition to its foreign trade policies, 1931-1945 the MWT took part in the construction of a Grosswirtschaftsraum, led by Germany. The MWT tried to retain the position of the free entrepreneurship in the context of ordered capitalism, and, at the same time, improved as a developing company the living conditions in the Erganzungsraum South-East Europe by sustainable farming projects in order to create a suitable market for the goods of the MWT-members.

  • By (author) Carl Freytag
  • Series edited by Oliver Rathkolb