Factory leader

According to the definition by the Act on Regulation of National Labor January 20, 1934, a plant manager was an entrepreneur, or manager of an industrial and crafts operation or a farmer with a private operation.

The term " operational leader" had been established in accordance with Cornelia Schmitz- Berning in their standard work on the vocabulary in the National Socialist ideology as follows: It should be eliminated, the ancient martial ratio of entrepreneurs and workers and it should develop an operating unit of operation leader and followers. The operation guide was towards the workers of his company authorized to issue ( " followers") are in -house issues, but even the state-appointed " trustee of work" had to be accountable to, the issues of wage policy, working time and working conditions had authority. According to § 38 of the Act to order the national labor leader, an operation would also be sold by a " court of honor ". Within the company strengthened the Nazi economic system, the position of the employer, whose entrepreneurial freedom was severely restricted, however, in favor of the state.

By a decree of 1934, additional specific duties and rights for operation managers revealed. In addition to economic and technical requirements, arising from the relevant operational purpose and goal, the plant manager had a right to punish on Eastern workers according to the Ostarbeitererlass of 20 February 1942 and to Poland in accordance with the decrees Poland. The leaders were also operating according to a leaflet obliged to immediately report unauthorized removal of Polish forced laborers of the competent local police.

In addition to this task, it was in accordance with the Regulation on the exclusion of Jews from German economic life from November 12, 1938 Jews are no longer allowed to be operational leaders and senior Jew in the company could be discharged within a period of six weeks without severance pay. The second regulation for the implementation of the Ordinance on the Elimination of Jews from German economic life of 14 December 1939 said, moreover, that Jews could be deputy plant manager.