Chapter 2 Rapid Ascent through the Nazi Ranks: From Local Party Leader to Reichstag Delegate

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Preface ix
5. Abbreviations xii
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1 Kiehn’s Rise to the Middle Class: A Traveling Salesman Becomes a Factory Owner 11
8. Chapter 2 Rapid Ascent through the Nazi Ranks: From Local Party Leader to Reichstag Delegate 28
9. Chapter 3 Between Gleichschaltung and the Part y Purge of 1934: Fritz Kiehn Becomes “Leader of the Württemberg Economy” 45
10. Chapter 4 Riding Nazi Part y Coattails: Kiehn’s Industrial Ambitions 73
11. Chapter 5 Between Corruption and Camaraderie: The National Socialist Campaign to Curb Abuses 87
12. Chapter 6 Kiehn and Gustav Schickedanz in the Race for Aryanization 102
13. Chapter 7 Wartime Deals and “Marriage Politics” 131
14. Chapter 8 “The King of Trossingen” Fritz Kiehn as a Local Grandee in the Third Reich 144
15. Chapter 9 From “War Criminal No. 1” to Sought-After Employer 187
16. Chapter 10 “Scot-Free, by the Skin of Their Teeth” Denazification and Compensation 202
17. Chapter 11 “Ripe for Satire” Entering the Social Market Economy with Public Loans 228
18. Chapter 12 “Kiehn Left No One Behind”? The “Factory Community” as a Network of “Old Comrades” 257
19. Chapter 13 Honored Citizen Again Kiehn and the “Economic Miracle” 273
20. Chapter 14 The Twilight Years of an Honored West German 289
21. Chapter 15 Coming to Terms with the Past in the Twenty-First Century 312
22. Conclusion: The (A)Typical Life of an Industrialist? 323
23. Bibliography 339
24. Index 357