“Only an ideological party which is led and which leads can save the soul and economy of the German people!”
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Alfred Hugenberg
Alfred Ernst Christian Alexander Hugenberg was an influential German businessman and politician. An important figure in nationalist politics in Germany during the first three decades of the twentieth century, Hugenberg became the country's leading media proprietor during the 1920s. As leader of the German National People's Party, he played a part in helping Adolf Hitler become chancellor of German…
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business · German businessman and politician (1865–1951) · politician · media proprietor · financier · diplomat · publisher · political economist · entrepreneur · author · minister · also Alfred Hugenberg, Alfred Ernst Christian Alexander Hugenberg, Alfred Wilhelm Franz Maria Hugenberg, Hugenberg
Born 19 June 1865 · Died 12 March 1951 · Q65121
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2026· 3 entries
“republicans, Jews and internationalists”
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“power and significance of the German race”
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1951· 1 entry
Died 1951-03-12.
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1949· 1 entry
A Denazification court at Detmold adjudged him a "Mitläufer" ("fellow traveller") rather than a Nazi, meaning that he was allowed to keep his property and business interests
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1946· 1 entry
And classified as "exonerated" in 1951 after undergoing denazification
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1944· 1 entry
A British bombing raid wrecked the newspaper plant where the Scherl papers were published
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1943· 1 entry
Awarded Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches (1943).
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1933· 5 entries
Hoping to control Hitler and use him as his tool
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“I see the difficulties growing all around...I myself am growing older and often do not know how the difficulties should be overcome.”
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“not unambiguously recognized the principles of private economy”
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“Battle Front Black-White-Red”
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Focused on bringing down the parliamentary government of the Weimar Republic
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1932· 1 entry
“s presidential government and advised Hindenburg:”
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1931· 2 entries
Hugenberg, whose fortune was not as vast as believed, was forced to cut DNVP's budget by 31% in order to keep the party solvent
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Hugenberg seriously considered shutting both newspapers down
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1929· 3 entries
In a memo outlining his planned politics of polarization that "fate is only for the weak and the sick
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“fate is only for the weak and the sick. The strong, healthy man molds his fate and that of his nation with his own will.”
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When the DNVP and Nazis joined forces in an unsuccessful bid to stop the Young Plan, a second attempt to resolve the reparations issue
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1927· 2 entries
The Scherl press published Hugenberg's essays of 1925 as Streiflichter aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart (Highlights from Past and Present), in which he attacked the policies associated with Westarp and implicitly challeng
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A controlling interest in the Universum-Film-AG (Ufa), a major film producer
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1922· 1 entry
Together with the industrialist Emil Kirdorf, Hugenberg created an investment fund known as Webegemeinschaft that served to subsidize groups "very effective politically, but not commercially profitable"
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1921· 1 entry
By buying and merging the Dammert Verlag GmbH, the Deutscher Handelsdienst and the Westdeutscher Handelsdienst
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1920· 1 entry
Hugenberg founded a populist tabloid, the Berliner Illustrierte Nachtausgabe, which became his most profitable newspaper, having a daily circulation of 216,000 by 1929
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1919· 2 entries
Hugenberg followed most of the Fatherland Party into the German National People's Party (Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP), which he represented in the Weimar National Assembly, which wrote the 1919 Constitution of the
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Hugenberg would not give a speech again in the Reichstag until 1929, and he rarely spoke at meetings of the Reich Association of German Industry; however, his ability to donate millions of marks to his favoured causes ma
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1918· 2 entries
Put an end to the plans to settle German farmers in the Lebensraum (biotope) of Eastern Europe, Hugenberg used the money that had been allocated to the colonization schemes in Eastern Europe to buy up newspapers
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After the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Hugenberg founded two corporations, the Landgesellschaft Kurland m
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1916· 3 entries
Started to buy newspapers and publishing houses in order to create more organs for the expression of his imperialistic views
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When he bought the Scherl publishing house
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And was a "quality" paper mostly read by educated middle-class people
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1915· 1 entry
Hugenberg published a telegram to Class in the name of the united chambers of commerce of the Ruhr, demanding that Wilhelm II dismiss Bethmann Hollweg and if the emperor was unwilling, that the military should depose Bet
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1914· 2 entries
Split into two factions, with the Independent Social Democrats opposing the war and the Majority Social Democrats supporting the war on the grounds that Russia was supposedly about to attack Germany
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Hugenberg welcomed the onset of the First World War and resumed his work with his close friend Heinrich Class of the Pan-German League
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1912· 1 entry
Emperor Wilhelm II personally awarded Hugenberg the Order of the Red Eagle for his success at Krupp AG, saying that Germany needed more businessmen like Hugenberg
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1909· 1 entry
Was appointed chairman of the supervisory board of Krupp Steel where he built up a close personal and political relationship with Baron Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, the CEO of Krupp AG
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1908· 1 entry
To 14% in 1913 won him much admiration in the world of German business
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1902· 1 entry
Friedrich Alfred Krupp's homosexuality was revealed to the public
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1900· 1 entry
Married his second cousin, Gertrud Adickes (1868–1960), with whom he had four children
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1899· 1 entry
Hugenberg called for "annihilation of Polish population"
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1891· 3 entries
At the age of twenty-six, he co-founded the nationalist organization that later became the Pan-German League
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Hugenberg co-founded, along with Karl Peters, the ultra-nationalist General German League, and in 1894 its successor movement, the Pan-German League (German: Alldeutscher Verband)
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Hugenberg was awarded a PhD at Strassburg for his dissertation Internal Colonization in Northwest Germany, in which he set out three ideas that guided his political thought for the rest of his life:
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1867· 1 entry
Entered the Prussian Landtag as a member of the National Liberal Party, the young Hugenberg studied law in Göttingen, Heidelberg, and Berlin, as well as economics in Strassburg
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1865· 1 entry
Born 1865-06-19.
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1806· 1 entry
Was followed by the War of Liberation in 1813–1814, so too would the Prussian-German state rise again to emerge victorious over its enemies
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