Industrielleneingabe

The Industrielleneingabe (German: Industrial petition) was a petition signed by nineteen representatives of industry, finance, and agriculture on November 19, 1932, requesting that the President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg make Adolf Hitler the Chancellor of Germany.

There had already been two similar attempts to assist the Nazi party in gaining control of the government: a petition by the Wirtschaftspolitischen Vereinigung Frankfurt (Frankfurt Socioeconomic Union) on July 27, 1931, and a declaration by 51 professors published in July 1932 in the Völkischer Beobachter.

The idea for the Industrielleneingabe had emerged at the end of October 1932 in the Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft ("Keppler circle"; Keppler-Kreis) and was supported by Heinrich Himmler, who worked as a liaison to the Brown House. The drafting of the letter was aided especially by Hjalmar Schacht, who was the only member of the Keppler-Kreis with any significant political experience. The Industrielleneingabe was first published in 1956 in the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft and is used as evidence to support the idea that big business played a central role in the rise of the Nazi Party.[1]

Signatures

The sixteen initial signatories were:[2]

  • Hjalmar Schacht, former president of the Reichsbank, member of the Keppler circle
  • Friedrich Reinhart, board spokesman of the Commerzbank, board member of the AEG, president of the Berlin Chamber of Industry and Commerce, member of the Keppler circle
  • August Rosterg, CEO of Wintershall AG, member of the Keppler circle
  • Kurt Baron von Schröder, private banker from Cologne, member of the Keppler circle and the Deutscher Herrenklub (de). Several weeks later in his house, the decisive negotiations took place before Hitler's appointment as German Chancellor.
  • Fritz Beindorff, owner of the Pelikan AG, in the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank
  • Emil Helfferich, member in the board of the German-American Petroleum Company, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of HAPAG, member of the Keppler circle
  • Franz Heinrich Witthoefft, Chairman in the Board of Commerzbank and Privat-Bank, president of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, member of the Keppler circle
  • Ewald Hecker, president of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry, member of the Keppler circle
  • Kurt Woermann, shipowner from Hamburg and member of the NSDAP
  • Carl Vincent Krogmann, co-owner of the Hamburger Bank, shipping company and trading house Wachsmuth and Krogmann, board member of the Hamburg National Club, mayor of Hamburg from 1933 to 1945, member of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Keppler circle
  • Kurt von Eichborn, co-owner of a private bank in Breslau
  • Eberhard Graf von Kalckreuth, president of the Reichslandbund, member of the Deutscher Herrenklub
  • Erich Lübbert, senior executive of Dywidag, chairman of the AG für Verkehrswesen, member of the Economic Council in Der Stahlhelm
  • Erwin Merck, supervisor of H. J. Merck & Co., a Hamburg commercial bank
  • Joachim von Oppen, president of the Brandenburg Chamber of Agriculture
  • Rudolf Ventzki, general director of Maschinenfabrik Esslingen

Signatures of the following personalities were submitted afterwards:

  • Fritz Thyssen, chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Vereinigte Stahlwerke
  • Robert Graf von Keyserlingk-Cammerau, member of the board of the German agricultural employers' associations, member of the German men club
  • Kurt Gustav Ernst von Rohr-Manze, landowner.

Whether Engelbert Beckmann, the president of the Westphalian Land Association, signed in any form is controversial.[3]

See also

References
  1. "Eingabe führender Persönlichkeiten des Landes an Reichspräsident von Hindenburg für die Berufung Adolf Hitlers zum Kanzler 19.11.1932". NS-Archiv. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  2. Gerhard Schulz, Von Brüning zu Hitler. Der Wandel des politischen Systems in Deutschland 1930-1933 (=Zwischen Demokratie und Diktatur, Bd. 3), de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1992, S. 1019
  3. Eberhard Czichon, Wer verhalf Hitler zur Macht?. Cologne 1967, P. 71 and Reinhard Kühnl, Der Deutsche Faschismus in Quellen und Dokumenten, Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1977, P. 162, shows him as signature. According to Gerhard Schulz, Von Brüning zu Hitler. Der Wandel des politischen Systems in Deutschland 1930–1933 (=Zwischen Demokratie und Diktatur, Bd. 3), de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1992, S. 1019 f., has the signature never arrived to Hindenburg; also Henry A. Turner, Die Großunternehmer und der Aufstieg Hitlers, Siedler Verlag Berlin 1985, P. 365, speaks only of 19 signatures.


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