Third Reich economic bureaucracy

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component of Nazi state government bureaucracy

The Third Reich economic bureaucracy was the network of Nazi government agencies and officials responsible for directing and coordinating Germany’s economic policy, industrial production, and resource allocation in support of the regime’s war and racial objectives.

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Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	component of Nazi state → government bureaucracy →
characteristic	close integration of state and private industry → competition between agencies → overlapping jurisdictions → personal rule by Führer decree →
cooperatedWith	SS economic and administrative offices → Wehrmacht High Command →
country	Nazi Germany →
endOfExistence	collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945 →
ideology	National Socialism → antisemitism → racial hierarchy →
includesAgency	Four Year Plan Office → German Labour Front (DAF) → Organisation Todt → Reich Coal Commissioner → Reich Commissariat for the Treatment of Enemy Property → Reich Labour Ministry → Reich Labour Service (RAD) → Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (economic sections) → Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production → Reich Ministry of Economics → Reich Ministry of Finance → Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture → Reich Office for Economic Expansion → Reich Office for Economic Planning → Reich Office for Statistics → Reich Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan → Reich Plenipotentiary for the War Economy → Reich Price Commissioner → Reich Steel Commissioner → Reichsbank →
keyFigure	Albert Speer → Fritz Todt → Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach → Hans Lammers → Hermann Göring → Hjalmar Schacht → Walther Funk → Wilhelm Frick →
policyInstrument	Aryanization of Jewish property → Four Year Plan → cartel regulation and coordination → forced labor deployment → foreign exchange controls → plunder of occupied territories → price controls → rearmament program → state-directed investment → war production rationalization →
primaryFunction	allocation of resources → coordination of industrial production → direction of economic policy → mobilization of war economy → support of racial policies →
subordinateTo	Adolf Hitler → Nazi Party leadership →
supportedActivity	exploitation of occupied Europe → genocidal policies against Jews → military expansion →
timePeriod	1933–1945 →

Referenced by (16)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Carl Krauch ("Nazi Germany war economy leadership") → Erich Neumann → Heinrich Korschan ("Nazi Germany war economy") → Karl Heinrich Pfirsch ("Nazi-era German industrial leadership") → Office for German Raw and Synthetic Materials ("Nazi economic administration") → Paul Körner ("Nazi war economy apparatus") → Reich Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan ("Nazi war economy") →	partOf
Paul Körner ("economic mobilization of the Third Reich") → Paul Körner ("industrial mobilization of the Third Reich") →	notableWork
Eduard Houdremont ("World War II-era German war economy") → Erhard Milch ("German war economy and armaments program") →	participantIn
Buna-Werke ("Nazi war economy") →	associatedWith
Office of the Four Year Plan ("Reich Ministry of Economics") →	conflictWith
Reich Ministry of Finance ("Reich tax administration") →	hasPart
Carl Krauch ("Nazi war economy") →	participatedIn
Carl Krauch ("Plenipotentiary for Special Issues of Chemical Production in Nazi Germany") →	positionHeld