History of Thyssen

Family, Industry and Culture in the 20th Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvGünther Schulz,Margit Szöllösi-Janze,Gunther Schulz,Margit Szollosi-Janze

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The History of Thyssenprovides a summary of a research project funded by the Thyssen Foundations. It is both an explanation of how the project was conceptualized and executed and a detailed case study of a family and business during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-03-10
Mått152 x 229 x 9 mm
Vikt242 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor158
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781805390749

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Günther Schulz is Professor Emeritus for Constitutional, Social and Economic History at the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn. His research focuses on social and economic history from the early 19th century. As part of the research network for the "Thyssen Entrepreneurial Family in the 20th Century", he oversaw the production of six company history research projects. His most recent publication as editor is Die Entstehung der modernen Sparkasse. Von der ‚Ersparnisanstalt‘ zum marktorientierten Unternehmen (1950s to 1980s) (Deutscher Sparkassenvlg.G, 2022).

List of FiguresForeword to the English-Language EditionVolker BerghahnForewordIntroductionPoint of Departure: The Thyssen LegacyElements of an Entangled Family and Corporate HistoryPart I: Family-History Projects: Selected FindingsChapter 1. The Thyssens – family and fortune (Simone Derix, 2016, 2nd ed. 2021)Family and conflictLifestyle: Family spaces, local roots, mobility“Calculated risk”: The Thyssens, their foundations and advisorsChapter 2. Two civic lives in the public eye.The brothers Fritz Thyssen and Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (Felix de Taillez, 2017)Stepping out from the father’s shadow:Fritz Thyssen as national heroThe exclusive circles of Heinrich Thyssen-BornemiszaOut in the open:Fritz Thyssen, the media, and National SocialismChapter 3. The Thyssens as art collectors. Investment and symbolic capital (1900 -1970) (Johannes Gramlich, 2015, 2nd ed. 2021)]“Normal capitalist bourgeoisie”:August Thyssen sr. and Fritz ThyssenCollecting as vocation: Heinrich and Hans Heinrich Thyssen-BornemiszaPart II: Corporate-History Projects: Selected FindingsWhy Thyssen? On the state of research and the research problemOn the company’s developmentCompany and familyTrust—capital—assetsConsultantSelected findingsChapter 4. Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG under National Socialism (Alexander Donges, 2014)Chapter 5. Forced labor at Thyssen.“Stahlverein” and “Baron-Konzern” in the Second World War (Thomas Urban, 2014, 2nd ed. 2021)Chapter 6. The expropriation of Fritz Thyssen. Dispossession and restitution (Jan Schleusener, 2018)Chapter 7. Thyssen in the Adenauer era. Corporate formation and family capitalism (Johannes Bähr, 2015)Chapter 8. From steel group to corporate group. The Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza companies from 1926 to 1932 (Harald Wixforth, 2019)Chapter 9. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Group(Boris Gehlen, 2021)Appendix: Thyssen family treeSources and BibliographyOverview of Book Series