Gottfried Feder
Gottfried Feder ( born January 27, 1883 in Würzburg, † September 24, 1941 in Murnau ) was a German engineer, economist and politician of the DAP and the NSDAP.
Life
Spring studied engineering science at the Technical University of Munich and in 1902 member of the Corps Isaria. Since 1905, graduate engineer, he was a partner in a construction company in 1908 in Munich. In 1918 he built one of the first reinforced concrete a ship.
Published in 1919 spring " The manifesto for the breaking of interest slavery " and founded the "German League of Struggle for breaking of interest slavery ". The office was located in Polln, which is a part of the town of Dachau today. The first event took place in this Hörhammerbräu 1919 at the invitation of the Council of intellectual workers and the cartel of Free Trade Unions; here he spoke on " interest slavery ". Principal claim this Kampfbund was the nationalization of the banks and the abolition of the interest. He also was among the first members of the founded in 1919 on January 5 German Workers' Party (DAP ). At about the same time (1919 /20) belonged to the most important spring meeting Rederns for the German Nationalists protection and Trutzbund. In addition, he was - in addition to Alfred Rosenberg and Richard Euringer - Employee of the laid by Dietrich Eckart 1918-1921 weekly on good German.
Spring was related to the historian Professor Karl Alexander von Mueller, whose father Ludwig August von Muller also came from Dachau and chief of police in Munich and Bavarian Interior Minister then was.
1923 spring took part in the Beer Hall Putsch. Nevertheless, he remained one of the leading figures in the Nazi Party in 1920, renamed in 1924 voted for the National Socialist Freedom Party in the Reichstag; him he was a member until 1936. Here spring made himself strong for the expropriation of the Jews and the freezing of interest rates. In the election on 29 March 1936, he ran again, but received no mandate.
With his signature, written in 1927, the program of the NSDAP and its ideological foundations to spring made the spokesman of the economic policies of the Nazi Party and became its economics spokesman. In 1929 he took over for a short while the editor of the Ingolstadt Nazi battle sheet The Donaubote. In 1931 he became chairman of the Economic Council of the NSDAP, the same year he wrote the script, the program of the NSDAP. Also founded in 1931 spring along with Paul Schultze -Naumburg the "struggle Association of German Architects and Engineers ( KdAI ) ", who won 2,000 members within a year.
After the " seizure of power" Hitler in 1933, the economic policies of the NSDAP turned away from the anti-capitalist, but not from the anti-Semitic attitude Feder. He was appointed contrary to his hopes in June 1933 only to the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Economy. During this time he published the book fight against high finance, which contains a collection of his publications and speeches, as well as the diatribe The Jews ( 1933). From March to December 1934 pen was also Reich Commissar for Human Settlements; in December 1934 he was moved into temporary retirement. In November 1934 the spring was appointed Honorary Professor at the Technical University Berlin in 1936, he was appointed civil servant associate professor at the Faculty of Engineering at the TH Berlin. He was also a member of the founded by Hans Frank, German Law Academy, which had arisen in the wake of the DC circuit of the legal system.
Spring held on 30 May 1934 as Reichssiedlung Commissioner and Secretary of State in a rally in the Prussian mansion a lecture on basic principles and objectives for the innovation of the German Lebensraum. His ideas, he was able to develop as a professor at the Technical University Berlin and head of the Reich Association for Regional Planning, in his opinion, the basis for the spatial and regional planning in Germany. These results are in his comprehensive book The New City, published in 1939 written down. In addition, proposals for city foundations are included and extensive statistics about the structure of data for new cities. He has contributed his opinion to urban theory by asking against the " soulless chessboard system of the American giant cities " and the " unplanned urban extensions of the liberal era ," an adaptation to the landscape conditions with organic settlements of 20,000 inhabitants in the foreground.
Publications
- " The manifesto for the breaking of interest slavery of money" in Critical Rundschau (1919). Expanded edition in At All, all! Number 1 (1919).