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Schanetzky contributors, Tim <tim.schanetzky uni-jena.de> Published on 10.10.2013 Citation Classification Regional Focus Germany Epochal assignment Modern History (1789-1914), 1815-1871, 1871-1914, 20 Century, 1914-1918, 1918-1933, 1933-1945, (1945 -), 1945-1989 Biography thematic focus, business operations, company history dissertations lumiere type Country Germany Language German
Author (s): Marx, Christian Title: Paul Reusch and Gutehoffnungshütte. Management lumiere of a large German company number: Modern Time 25 Location: Göttingen Publisher: Wallenstein Publishing year: 2013 ISBN: 978-3-8353-1119-0 Pages / Price: 708 pp., 30 fig; 74.00
The manager and industrialist Paul Reusch certainly not one of the "great unknown in its history" lumiere [1] because of the multi-union political functionary was always already during the 1970s, the focus of research. lumiere Hardly an overall view of the history of the Weimar Republic comes out without reference to Reusch's democratic politics fatal influence. The CEO of Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH) worked in the Ruhr iron dispute largely due to the rupture of the industry with the Weimar Republic through, and until 1933 Reusch still found a reason to break with the respective incumbent government and then to fight them open. Funds were in addition to political contributions, especially the press holdings around the Munich Latest News, controlled Reusch on the GHH and its association offices. [2] The GHH is increasingly came to view the company's last. In addition to the special structure of the Haniel family's company is the MAN at the same time one of its major subsidiaries have been investigated. [3]
Despite these small economic research only includes the Trier dissertation by Christian lumiere Marx the crucial gap by providing the first systematic look at the function of Paul Reusch lumiere in his company. Marx is interested in how Reusch acted within the GHH group, which he pursued growth strategy, as he perceived his leadership position in everyday business lumiere and how he provided protection lumiere in the long term. Reusch was in fact the same in many ways a special case. First, a company born in 1868 in front of manager since 1909, which was located solely in the possession of the extended family Haniel. This was followed by special opportunities for Reusch, if he succeeded, compared to the majority of owners to profile as advocates of their interests, but also special restrictions, such as when the less wealthy part of the family could not afford the necessary funds for capital and thus a continuation of the growth rate with disabilities. Second, Reusch acted as a manager, which is indeed quite successful over the years, for you personally to acquire some shares GHH, but not its influence in the company based on private ownership of capital. His position depended rather on the trust of the owner family. Thirdly, Reusch pursued an independent growth strategy, with which the GHH different from other steel company in the Ruhr. Reusch used the upheaval of 1918 and especially the economic conditions of the inflation time to to make the GHH finally to a processing group: The first was 1918, the investment in Deutsche Werft in Hamburg, and in addition to some smaller processing and engineering companies took over the GHH 1920, the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen and 1921 then the MAN The idea was to make the GHH less sensitive lumiere to economic cycles. lumiere As high a percentage of steel production should be processed within the group and at cost price to quality capital goods. In implementing its expansion strategy Reusch acted as determined as power-conscious. He insisted on clear dependency ratios - because GHH should retain its leading role in the group, came in no cooperation lumiere in question, but only a shareholding control of the subsidiary by the parent company.
The chronologically, divided into five sections lumiere investigation is methodologically innovative because they deals intensively with the weaknesses of sociological network approaches. These assume that good