Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft

The German - British Company (DEG ) was a German organization for the German -British understanding in the time of National Socialism. She was the German sister organization of the British Anglo - German Fellowship. It was founded on December 2, 1935 by Joachim von Ribbentrop, and dissolved in 1939.

Organization

Really, the Company was active until mid- 1937, when developed in close cooperation with the Anglo - German Fellowship. The highlight of their activities unfolded DEG 1938.

DEG sat almost exclusively composed of only leading party and government members or members of the economy. The members of the business came mainly from the company IG Colors, AEG, Siemens, Metallgesellschaft, ESSO, Wintershall, Lorenz and Kalisyndikats.

The membership fee was 20 Reichsmarks. Funding was provided by the representative business enterprises and the department Ribbentrop.

The headquarters was in Berlin in the Bendler Street 30 There were 11 branches in Hamburg, Bremen, Essen, Cologne, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Munich, Vienna, Dresden.

Main activities were political lectures and cultural events.

As a newsletter published since 1938, the " German - English books " six times a year.

The German - English county (DEK ) was the youth wing of the DEG, the German - English organized youth camps.

Members

From April 1937 to April 1938, the membership rose from 176 to 560 in the spring of 1939 it was 700 and it was a record lock imposed. Members were, among others:

  • Carl Eduard Duke of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha (Honorary Chairman and President )
  • Eugen Lehnkering (Chairman of the Board, Reeder, vice president of the Lower Rhine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Ribbentrop's foreign policy advisor )
  • Karl Haushofer ( Board Member)
  • Edmund of Sellner (President of the National Association for the German wholesale and overseas trade )
  • Walter Hevel (temporarily Treasurer)
  • Walther Funk ( Board Member)
  • Hans Friedrich Blunck ( Board Member)
  • Joseph Goebbels ( Honorary Member )
  • Franz Seldte (Honorary Member )
  • Nevile Henderson ( Honorary Member, British Ambassador to Germany )
  • Kurt elf ( AEG)
  • Albert Freiherr Dufour of Feronce ( Lorenz AG and Dresdner Bank)
  • Georg von Schnitzler ( I.G. colors)
  • Max Ilgner ( I.G. colors)
  • Kurt Freiherr von Schröder
  • Fritz Rechenberg
  • Emil Helfferich ( Hapag and Esso )
  • Karl Lindemann (North German Lloyd and Dresdner Bank)
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