Anglo-German Fellowship

The Anglo - German Fellowship ( AGF) was a British, pro- Nazi organization founded in the fall of 1935. The German sister organization was the German - English society. It is not to be confused with the student exchange program of the British Embassy in Berlin.

Objectives

In the Anglo - German Fellowship those British industrialists, bankers and top officials were present, which promoted an alliance with the National Socialist German Reich and - off the record - encouraged the leaders of the German Reich into a war against the Stalinist Soviet Union. So a member of the Fellowship, the ruler of the British coal mining industry wrote Lord Londonderry on 25 February 1936, Hermann Goering:

" Britain must confront together with Germany from Bolshevism, for this doctrine will," if she is successful, a worldwide catastrophe of a magnitude to bring about [ ...] that no one can imagine "

The organization

On December 2, 1935, the first General Assembly took place in the headquarters of the Unilever Group. Since the autumn of 1936 regular monthly meetings were held. The Fellowship led a massive pro-German propaganda in the United Kingdom. For years, were invited to high SA and Hitler Youth leaders, diplomats, ministers and local politicians in London clubs and on country estates a. Among the guests and speakers Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, Field Marshal von Blomberg, the National Socialist Reich Sports Leader Hans von Tschammer and East, Himmler's adjutant Hajo Freiherr von Hadeln and the Duke Carl Eduard ( Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ) were located. The Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg days regularly drove a strong delegation of the Fellowship. It has its own newspaper, the Anglo - German Review issued. A total of 50 members of both Houses of Parliament had joined the Fellowship. Lord Londonderry visited 3-4 times a year, Hitler and Goering. Close relations existed at the Cliveden Set.

The Soviet agent Kim Philby was a member of the organization, Hitler's spy, Stephanie zu Hohenlohe- Waldenburg - Schillingsfuerst, honorary member.

Members

The most influential members of about 600 to 800 men strong association were:

  • Ernest Tennant, banker, founder of the Anglo - German Fellowship and friend of Ribbentrop
  • Francis Cooper, president of the Unilever Group
  • Lord McGowan, President of the Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI )
  • Sir Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England and a personal friend of Hjalmar Schacht
  • Lord William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, president of the Morris Motor Company
  • Sir Andrew Agnew, Chief Executive of Shell -Mex and British Petroleum Company (BP )
  • Sir Geoffrey Clark, Chief Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Company and the British India Steam Navigation Company
  • Sir Alexander Shaw, President of the P & O Steam Navigation Company and a board member of the Bank of England
  • Lord Londonderry, Charles Vane - Tempest - Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry ( * May 13, 1878, † February 11, 1949 ), 1921 Privy Councillor for Northern Ireland, 1921-1926 Minister of Education and Leader of the Senate of Northern Ireland; 1931-1935 Secretary of State for Air; 1935 Lord Privy Seal ( Lord Privy Seal ) and at the same time Leader of the House of Lords; Ruler of the British coal industry, as well as a partner in the big banks J. Henry Schröder & Co., Lazard Brothers & Co and Guinness, Mahon & Co.
  • Frank Cyril Tiarks, a director of the Bank of England, a member of the British Union of Fascists
  • Admiral Sir Barry Domvile, founder of similarly structured organization The Link
  • Admiral Sir Murray Sueter
  • Prince Otto von Bismarck (1897-1975)

In addition, the following corporations, companies and banks were represented by the Management Board or Board Members:

  • Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
  • Vickers - Armstrong Steel Company
  • John Brown & Company
  • Dunlop Rubber Company
  • John Walker & Sons
  • Great Western Railway
  • London, Midland and Scottish Railway
  • Cunard White Star Lines
  • Oceanic Steam Navigation Company
  • Lloyds Bank
  • Barclays Bank
  • Midland Bank
  • National Provincial Bank
  • British Westinghouse Electric Company
  • British Overseas Bank
  • Commercial Union Assurance Bank
  • Phoenix Assurance Company

Resolution

Lord Mount Temple submitted on November 19, 1938 from this office of the President and presented together with 20 other members of the activity a. In public, she stepped from November 1938 barely in evidence. This was almost a collapse of the Fellowship same, after the occupation of the remainder of Czechoslovakia, the Company ceased to exist.

On June 8, 1939 Londonderry wrote to Franz von Papen that he had changed his mind after Germany had invaded Czechoslovakia, it had shown " that a given promise of Germany had no real basis ," and he said:

"We are deeply upset about the way how Germany tries apparently to impose its hegemony on the world, and decided to confront these projects, no matter what may require this resistance. "

In a letter dated April 2 to Neville Chamberlain Londonderry welcomed the British - French declaration of guarantee to Poland.

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