Reich Price Commissioner

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The Reich Price Commissioner was a key Nazi-era official responsible for controlling and regulating prices within the centrally managed economy of the Third Reich.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf economic regulatory authority
government office
aim prevention of black market price escalation
stabilization of prices
support of war economy planning
appliesToJurisdiction Third Reich
characteristic authoritarian enforcement powers
highly centralized authority
integration with Nazi party-state structures
country Nazi Germany
dissolvedAfter defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945
hasRole control of wages and fees
coordination of price policy with war economy needs
enforcement of price ceilings
implementation of economic decrees
inflation control
price control
rationing-related price supervision
regulation of prices
historicalSignificance central organ of the Third Reich command economy
key instrument of Nazi price and wage control
ideology National Socialism
legalBasis Nazi emergency economic legislation
price control decrees of the Third Reich
locatedIn Berlin
partOf German wartime command economy
Nazi economic administration
policyInstrument licensing and approval of price changes
mandatory reporting of prices
maximum price schedules
penalties for price violations
price ordinances
replacedBy postwar German economic administration
scopeOfAuthority civilian economy
consumer goods prices
industrial prices
services prices
subordinateTo Nazi Party leadership in economic matters
Reich Ministry of Economics
Reich government
timePeriod Nazi era
World War II
usedFor centralized economic planning
control of domestic consumption
mobilization of resources for war
support of autarky policy

Referenced by (1)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Third Reich economic bureaucracy
includesAgency

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