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Lessons to be Learned from Business Historical Studies of the National Socialist Period: Chris Kobrak (January 21, 1950–January 8, 2017)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2018

ANDREA SCHNEIDER-BRAUNBERGER
ANDREA SCHNEIDER-BRAUNBERGER*
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Andrea Schneider-Braunberger has been Managing Director of the Society for Business History (Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte) since 1996. She studied Contemporary History at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main and graduated in 1996 with her dissertation on Helmut Schmidt and the Great Coalition, 1966–1969. She has published several books and papers in the field of business history, focusing on German banks and family firms. Since 1996 she has been on the editorial board of the Journal of Business History (Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte). E-mail: [email protected]
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 2018 , pp. 12 - 23
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Banken, Ralf. Edelmetallmangel und Großraubwirtschaft. Die Entwicklung des deutschen Edelmetallsektors im “Dritten Reich,” 1933–1945. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009.Google Scholar
Barkai, Avraham. Oscar Wassermann und die Deutsche Bank, Bankier in schwieriger Zeit. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2005.Google Scholar
Berghoff, Hartmut, Kocka, Jürgen, and Ziegler, Dieter, eds. Business in the Age of Extremes, Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History. Cambridge: Cambridge 2013.Google Scholar
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Feldman, Gerald D. Allianz und die Deutsche Versicherungswirtschaft 1933–1945. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2001.Google Scholar
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Hayes, Peter. Die Degussa im Dritten Reich. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2004.Google Scholar
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Joly, Hervé. Cultures et médias sous l’Occupation: Des entreprises dan la France de Vichy. With Agnès Callu and Patrick Eveno. Paris: CTHS, 2009.Google Scholar
Kobrak, Christopher. Banking on Global Markets: Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Kobrak, Christopher. National Cultures and International Competition: The Experience of Schering AG, 1851–1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Kobrak, Christopher, and Hansen, Per H., eds. European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920–1945. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mommsen, Hans, and Grieger, Manfred. Das Volkswagenwerk und seine Zwangsarbeiter im Dritten Reich. Munich: Econ Verlag, 1996.Google Scholar
Scherner, Jonas. Die Logik der Industriepolitik im Dritten Reich. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2008.Google Scholar
Steinberg, Jonathan. The Deutsche Bank and Its Gold Transactions during the Second World War. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1999.Google Scholar
Wixforth, Harald. “Die Expansion der Dresdner Bank in Europa.” Vol. 3, Die Dresdner Bank im Dritten Reich, edited by Henke, Klaus-Dietmar. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2006.Google Scholar
Wubs, Ben. International Business and War Interests: Unilever between Reich and Empire, 1939–45. London: Routledge, 2008.Google Scholar
Ziegler, Dieter. “Die Dresdner Bank und die deutschen Juden.” Vol. 2, Die Dresdner Bank im Dritten Reich, edited by Henke, Klaus-Dietmar. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2006.Google Scholar
Banken, Ralf. “Vom ‘Verschweigen’ über die ‘Sonderkonjunktur’ bis hin zur ‘Normalität’? Der Nationalsozialismus in der Unternehmensgeschichte der Bundesrepublik.” Zeitgeschichte Online, December 2012. www.zeitgeschichte-online.de/thema/vom-verschweigen-ueber-die-sonderkonjunktur-hin-zur-normalitaet.Google Scholar
Banken, Ralf, Köster, Roman, and Wubs, Ben. “Introduction: The Room for Maneuver for Firms in the Third Reich,” in “Between Coercion and Private Initiative: Entrepreneurial Freedom of Action during the ‘Third Reich’: New Perspectives on a Current Debate.” Special issue Business History, forthcoming.Google Scholar
Hayes, Peter. “Corporate Freedom of Action in Nazi Germany.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 45, (Fall 2009): 29–42.Google Scholar
Kobrak, Christopher, and Schneider, Andrea H.. “Big Business and the Third Reich.” In The Historiography of the Holocaust, edited by Stone, Dan, 141–172. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2004.Google Scholar
Kobrak, Christopher, and Schneider, Andrea H.. “Varieties of Business History: Subject and Methods for the Twenty-First Century.” Business History 53, no. 3 (June 2011): 401–424.Google Scholar
Plumpe, Werner. “Die Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensgeschichte des Nationalsozialismus: Überlegungen aus systemtheoretischer Perspektive.” Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 2 (2004): S.241–S.245.Google Scholar
Schneider, Andrea H. “State-Owned Enterprises: Hitler’s Willing Servants? The Decision-making Structures of VIAG (Vereinigte Industrieunternehmungen AG) and RKA (Deutsche Retenbank-Kreditanstalt).” European Yearbook of Business History 3, (2000): 106–124.Google Scholar
Schneider-Braunberger, Andrea. “Nachruf Prof. Christopher Kobrak.” Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 1, (2017): 135–138.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stokes, Raymond. “Research and Development in German Industry in the Nazi Period: Motivations and Incentives, Directions, Outcomes.” In German Industry in the Nazi Period, edited by Buchheim, Christof, 61–62. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008.Google Scholar
Abelshauser, Werner, Fisch, Stefan, Hoffmann, Dierk, and Holtfrerich, Carl-Ludwig. Wirtschaftspolitik in Deutschland 1917–1990. Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter Oldenbourg, 2016.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Abelshauser, Werner, Hesse, Jan-Otmar, and Plumpe, Werner, eds. Wirtschaftsordnung, Staat und Unternehmen. Neuere Forschungen zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte des Nationalsozialismus. Festschrift für Dietmar Petzina zu seinem 65. Geburtstag: Essen, 2003.Google Scholar
Bähr, Johannes. “Die Dresdner Bank in der Wirtschaft des Dritten Reiches.” Vol. 1, Die Dresdner Bank im Dritten Reich, edited by Henke, Klaus-Dietmar. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2006.Google Scholar
Banken, Ralf. Edelmetallmangel und Großraubwirtschaft. Die Entwicklung des deutschen Edelmetallsektors im “Dritten Reich,” 1933–1945. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009.Google Scholar
Barkai, Avraham. Oscar Wassermann und die Deutsche Bank, Bankier in schwieriger Zeit. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2005.Google Scholar
Berghoff, Hartmut, Kocka, Jürgen, and Ziegler, Dieter, eds. Business in the Age of Extremes, Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History. Cambridge: Cambridge 2013.Google Scholar
Conze, Eckart, Frei, Norbert, Hayes, Peter, and Zimmermann, Moshe. Das Amt und die Vergangenheit. Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik. Munich: Karl Blessing Verlag, 2010.Google Scholar
Feldman, Gerald D. Allianz und die Deutsche Versicherungswirtschaft 1933–1945. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2001.Google Scholar
Gall, Lothar. Der Bankier, Hermann Josef Abs. Eine Biographie. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2004.Google Scholar
Gall, Lothar, and Pohl, Manfred, eds. Unternehmen im Nationaloszialismus (Schriftenreihe zur Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte, Bd.1). Munich: C.H. Beck, 1998.Google Scholar
Hayes, Peter. Die Degussa im Dritten Reich. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2004.Google Scholar
Hayes, Peter. Industry and Ideology: I.G. Farben in the Nazi Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.Google Scholar
Hayes, Peter, and Roth, John K.. The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.Google Scholar
Henke, Klaus-Dietmar, eds. Die Dresdner Bank im Dritten Reich, vol. 4. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2006.Google Scholar
Herbst, Ludolf, and Weihe, Thomas, eds. Die Commerzbank und die Juden, 1933–1945. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2004.Google Scholar
Hirschfeld, Gerhard. Nazi Rule and Dutch Collaboration: The Netherlands under German Occupation, 1940–1945 (1st English ed.). Oxford: Berg, 1988.Google Scholar
James, Harold. The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.Google Scholar
James, Harold. The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004.Google Scholar
James, Harold. Verbandspolitik im Nationalsozialismus, Von der Interessenvertretung zur Wirtschaftsgruppe: Der Centralverband des Deutschen Bank- und Bankiergewerbes 1932–1945. Munich: Piper, 2001.Google Scholar
James, Harold, and Tanner, Jakob. Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate 2003.Google Scholar
Joly, Hervé. Cultures et médias sous l’Occupation: Des entreprises dan la France de Vichy. With Agnès Callu and Patrick Eveno. Paris: CTHS, 2009.Google Scholar
Kobrak, Christopher. Banking on Global Markets: Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Kobrak, Christopher. National Cultures and International Competition: The Experience of Schering AG, 1851–1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Kobrak, Christopher, and Hansen, Per H., eds. European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920–1945. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mommsen, Hans, and Grieger, Manfred. Das Volkswagenwerk und seine Zwangsarbeiter im Dritten Reich. Munich: Econ Verlag, 1996.Google Scholar
Scherner, Jonas. Die Logik der Industriepolitik im Dritten Reich. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2008.Google Scholar
Steinberg, Jonathan. The Deutsche Bank and Its Gold Transactions during the Second World War. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1999.Google Scholar
Wixforth, Harald. “Die Expansion der Dresdner Bank in Europa.” Vol. 3, Die Dresdner Bank im Dritten Reich, edited by Henke, Klaus-Dietmar. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2006.Google Scholar
Wubs, Ben. International Business and War Interests: Unilever between Reich and Empire, 1939–45. London: Routledge, 2008.Google Scholar
Ziegler, Dieter. “Die Dresdner Bank und die deutschen Juden.” Vol. 2, Die Dresdner Bank im Dritten Reich, edited by Henke, Klaus-Dietmar. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2006.Google Scholar
Banken, Ralf. “Vom ‘Verschweigen’ über die ‘Sonderkonjunktur’ bis hin zur ‘Normalität’? Der Nationalsozialismus in der Unternehmensgeschichte der Bundesrepublik.” Zeitgeschichte Online, December 2012. www.zeitgeschichte-online.de/thema/vom-verschweigen-ueber-die-sonderkonjunktur-hin-zur-normalitaet.Google Scholar
Banken, Ralf, Köster, Roman, and Wubs, Ben. “Introduction: The Room for Maneuver for Firms in the Third Reich,” in “Between Coercion and Private Initiative: Entrepreneurial Freedom of Action during the ‘Third Reich’: New Perspectives on a Current Debate.” Special issue Business History, forthcoming.Google Scholar
Hayes, Peter. “Corporate Freedom of Action in Nazi Germany.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 45, (Fall 2009): 29–42.Google Scholar
Kobrak, Christopher, and Schneider, Andrea H.. “Big Business and the Third Reich.” In The Historiography of the Holocaust, edited by Stone, Dan, 141–172. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2004.Google Scholar
Kobrak, Christopher, and Schneider, Andrea H.. “Varieties of Business History: Subject and Methods for the Twenty-First Century.” Business History 53, no. 3 (June 2011): 401–424.Google Scholar
Plumpe, Werner. “Die Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensgeschichte des Nationalsozialismus: Überlegungen aus systemtheoretischer Perspektive.” Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 2 (2004): S.241–S.245.Google Scholar
Schneider, Andrea H. “State-Owned Enterprises: Hitler’s Willing Servants? The Decision-making Structures of VIAG (Vereinigte Industrieunternehmungen AG) and RKA (Deutsche Retenbank-Kreditanstalt).” European Yearbook of Business History 3, (2000): 106–124.Google Scholar
Schneider-Braunberger, Andrea. “Nachruf Prof. Christopher Kobrak.” Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 1, (2017): 135–138.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stokes, Raymond. “Research and Development in German Industry in the Nazi Period: Motivations and Incentives, Directions, Outcomes.” In German Industry in the Nazi Period, edited by Buchheim, Christof, 61–62. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008.Google Scholar