Office of the Four Year Plan

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The Office of the Four Year Plan was a central Nazi economic and administrative body, led by Hermann Göring, tasked with preparing Germany’s economy and industry for war and autarky.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi government office
economic planning authority
appliesToJurisdiction German Reich
appointedBy Adolf Hitler
conflictWith Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
Reich Ministry of Economics
country Nazi Germany
createdBy Four Year Plan decree of 1936
dissolved 1945
grantedPower control over foreign exchange
control over labor deployment
control over prices and wages
control over raw materials allocation
issue binding decrees
override existing ministries
hasPart Four Year Plan apparatus
Office for Agricultural Affairs
Office for Foreign Exchange and Price Control
Office for German Raw and Synthetic Materials
Office for Industrial Production
Office for Labor Allocation
armaments coordination units
economic planning departments
foreign exchange control offices
labor allocation offices
price control offices
raw materials departments
headOfGovernment Hermann Göring
historicalPeriod World War II
pre‑World War II Germany
inception 1936
influencedBy Nazi ideology of autarky
Nazi rearmament policy
leader Hermann Göring
legalBasis Four Year Plan decree of 1936
location Berlin
notableMember Erich Neumann
Hans Kehrl
Hermann Göring
Paul Körner
Wilhelm Keppler
objective economic autarky
increase of armaments production
mobilization of resources for total war
preparation of the German economy for war
rearmament
reduction of unemployment through militarized economy
oversaw expansion of the steel industry
exploitation of occupied territories
forced labor deployment in industry
synthetic fuel production
synthetic rubber production
partOf Nazi economic administration
Nazi regime
policyArea agricultural policy
armaments coordination
economic planning
foreign exchange control
industrial policy
labor policy
price control
raw materials policy
replacedBy in practice, growing authority of the Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
significance central instrument of Nazi economic mobilization for war
key tool for establishing a command economy in Nazi Germany
subordinateTo Adolf Hitler


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