Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Moritz Föllmer is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. He has previously taught at the University Leeds, the Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Chicago. His publications on Weimar and Nazi Germany include Individuality and Modernity in Berlin: Self and Society from Weimar to the Wall (Cambridge, 2013) and Culture in the Third Reich (2020). Moreover, he has published a range of articles and chapters, including in Past & Present, Historical Journal, Journal of Modern History, Central European History and German History, where he has also served as review editor. Pamela E. Swett is Professor of History at McMaster University. Her publications include Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin 1929–1933 (Cambridge, 2004), Selling under the Swastika: Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany (2014), and, as co-editor,Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth Century Germany (2007) and Pleasure and Power in the Third Reich (2011) as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. She is also the co-editor of the Nazi Germany section of the German Historical Institute's online portal, German History in Documents and Images.

'This pioneering collection sheds new light on how capitalism was lived, critiqued and imagined in this crucial period of German history, bringing social and cultural histories into dialogue with the politics and practices of business life to great effect.' Neil Gregor, University of Southampton, author of Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich

• Introduction: Historicizing capitalism in Germany, 1918–1945 Moritz Föllmer and Pamela E. Swett; Part I. Debating capitalism: 1. Capitalism and agency in interwar Germany Moritz Föllmer; 2. Aporias of 'political capitalism' between World War One and the Depression Martin H. Geyer; 3. Searching for order: German jurists debate economic power, 1919–1949 Kim Christian Priemel; Part II. Concealing capitalism: 4. Capitalism, wealth, and the question of (in)visibility: The Thyssen family and its investments Simone Derix; 5. Semantics of success: The cases of Friedrich Flick and Henry J. Kaiser Tim Schanetzky; 6. Hamburg coffee importers: From guild to class, 1900s–1960s Dorothee Wierling; Part III. Promoting capitalism: 7. Between criticism and innovation: Beer and public relations in the Weimar Republic Sina Fabian; 8. Managing consumer capitalism: Artists, engineers, and psychologists as new marketing experts in interwar Germany Jan Logemann; 9. A society safe for capitalism: Violent crowds, tumult laws, and the costs of doing business in Germany, 1918–1945 Molly Loberg; Part IV. Racializing capitalism: 10. Völkisch banking? Capitalism and Stuttgart's savings banks, 1933–1945 Pamela E. Swett; 11. Völkisch capitalism: Himmler's bankers and the continuity of capitalist thinking and practice in Germany Alexa Stiller.