Download or read book Walther Rathenau written by Shulamit Volkov and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply informed biography of Walther Rathenau (1867-1922) tells of a man who—both thoroughly German and unabashedly Jewish—rose to leadership in the German War-Ministry Department during the First World War, and later to the exalted position of foreign minister in the early days of the Weimar Republic. His achievement was unprecedented—no Jew in Germany had ever attained such high political rank. But Rathenau's success was marked by tragedy: within months he was assassinated by right-wing extremists seeking to destroy the newly formed Republic. Drawing on Rathenau's papers and on a depth of knowledge of both modern German and German-Jewish history, Shulamit Volkov creates a finely drawn portrait of this complex man who struggled with his Jewish identity yet treasured his “otherness.” Volkov also places Rathenau in the dual context of Imperial and Weimar Germany and of Berlin's financial and intellectual elite. Above all, she illuminates the complex social and psychological milieu of German Jewry in the period before Hitler's rise to power.
Download or read book Walther Rathenau His Life and Work written by Graf Harry Kessler and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Society written by Walther Rathenau and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walther Rathenau and the Weimar Republic written by David Felix and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1971. Walther Rathenau and the Weimar Republic examines reparations in Germany following the First World War. Financial reparation was the most difficult and dangerous of the conditions imposed upon Germany by the Versailles Treaty. The amount of reparations - three times the country's annual income - was beyond Germany's capacity to pay. The United States, by insisting on the payment of Allied war debts, forced the Allies in turn to insist on reparations. Postwar polemics concentrated on German aggression and war crimes, but the real issue was the damage done to the world's economic mechanism. In the end all nations suffered, including the United States.
Download or read book Walter Rathenau written by Count Harry Kessler and published by READ BOOKS. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WALTHER RATHENAU: HIS LIFE AND WORK. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION 3 I. FATHER AND SON 5 II. THE WAY OF THE INTELLECT 21 III. SOCIAL INTERLUDE 43 y IV. THE REPUDIATION OF THE INTELLECT 55 V. FRIENDSHIPS 64 VI. THE REALM OF THE SOUL 74 VII. THE PATH TO THE ABYSS 117 VIII. IN DAYS TO COME 169 IX. ISOLATION 222 X. THE NEW FOREIGN POLICY THE FIGHT FOR PEACE 268 XI. THERE IS NO DEATH 34 APPENDIX 365 INDEX TO RATHENAUS WORKS 371 INDEX 373 ILLUSTRATIONS WALTHER RATHENAU IN THE CAR IN WHICH HE WAS ASSASSINATED WALTHER AND ERICH RATHENAU 1 8 WALTHER RATHENAU, FROM THE PORTRAIT BY EDVARD MUNCH 5 2 EMIL RATHENAU 6O THE C BREVIARIUM MYSTICUM 7 WALTHER RATHENAU BEFORE THE WAR IO4 ROOM IN THE SCHLOSS FREIENWALDE .138 WALTHER RATHENAUS MOTHER 3 2 WALTHER RATHENAU
Download or read book Walther Rathenau written by Harry Kessler and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Walther Rathenau written by Harry Kessler and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.
Download or read book Walther Rathenau Industrialist Banker Intellectual and Politician written by Walther Rathenau and published by Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his Jewish origins, Walter Rathenau became a star of Berlin society, and his political career took him to the head of the AEG, the Ministry for Reconstruction, and, in 1922, the Foreign Ministry. This first English edition of his notes and diaries provides a fascinating insight into the personality and achievements of one of the most influential figures in Wilhemine and Weimar Germany.
Download or read book Walther Rathenau His Life and Work written by Harry Graf Kessler and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Walther Rathenau written by Harry K. Kessler and published by . This book was released on 1970-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Einstein s German World written by Fritz Stern and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French political philosopher Raymond Aron once observed that the twentieth century "could have been Germany's century." In 1900, the country was Europe's preeminent power, its material strength and strident militaristic ethos apparently balanced by a vital culture and extraordinary scientific achievement. It was poised to achieve greatness. In Einstein's German World, the eminent historian Fritz Stern explores the ambiguous promise of Germany before Hitler, as well as its horrifying decline into moral nihilism under Nazi rule, and aspects of its remarkable recovery since World War II. He does so by gracefully blending history and biography in a sequence of finely drawn studies of Germany's great scientists and of German-Jewish relations before and during Hitler's regime. Stern's central chapter traces the complex friendship of Albert Einstein and the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Fritz Haber, contrasting their responses to German life and to their Jewish heritage. Haber, a convert to Christianity and a firm German patriot until the rise of the Nazis; Einstein, a committed internationalist and pacifist, and a proud though secular Jew. Other chapters, also based on new archival sources, consider the turbulent and interrelated careers of the physicist Max Planck, an austere and powerful figure who helped to make Berlin a happy, productive place for Einstein and other legendary scientists; of Paul Ehrlich, the founder of chemotherapy; of Walther Rathenau, the German-Jewish industrialist and statesman tragically assassinated in 1922; and of Chaim Weizmann, chemist, Zionist, and first president of Israel, whose close relations with his German colleagues is here for the first time recounted. Stern examines the still controversial way that historians have dealt with World War I and Germans have dealt with their nation's defeat, and he analyzes the conflicts over the interpretations of Germany's past that persist to this day. He also writes movingly about the psychic cost of Germany's reunification in 1990, the reconciliation between Germany and Poland, and the challenges and prospects facing Germany today. At once historical and personal, provocative and accessible, Einstein's German World illuminates the issues that made Germany's and Europe's past and present so important in a tumultuous century of creativity and violence.
Download or read book Walther Rathenau written by Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walther Rathenau and the Weimar Republic the Politics of Reparation written by David Felix and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elites Against Democracy written by Walter Struve and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of the current era of imperialism in the late nineteenth century, there has been a striking contrast between bourgeois political thought in Germany and the West. Walter Struve demonstrates how German political culture went through a phase in which great emphasis was placed on the establishment of a new political elite recruited on the basis of merit and skill, but ruling in an authoritarian way, and not controlled by the populace. He suggests that this type of elitism, many aspects of which were vital to the political culture of Nazi Germany, seems today to be widespread in the West. The development of this concept of an open-yet-authoritarian elite is approached through the analysis of the political ideas and activities of nine elitists, among them Max Weber, Walther Rathenau, and Oswald Spengler. The author relates biography to intellectual, political, social, and economic history, so that his work becomes a study in the political and social context of intellectual history. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book The New Society written by Walther Rathenau and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walther Rathenau, author of Die neue Gesellschaft and other studies of economic and social conditions in modern Germany, was born in 1867. He was German of Jewish origin. The present study, with its wide outlook and its resolute determination to see facts as they are, should have much value for all students of latter-day politics and economics in Europe; for though Rathenau is mainly concerned with conditions in his own land the same conditions affect all countries to a greater or less degree, and he deals with general principles of human psychology and of economic law which prevail everywhere in the world. It is not too much to say that "The New Society" constitutes a landmark in the history of economic and social thought, and contains matter for discussion, for sifting, for experiment and for propaganda which should occupy serious thinkers and reformers for many a day to come. His suggestions and conclusions may not be all accepted, or all acceptable, but few will deny that they constitute a distinct advance in the effort to bring serious and disinterested thought to the solution of our social problems, and in this conviction we offer the present complete and authorized translation to English readers.
Download or read book Briefed dt Walther Rathenau written by Walther Rathenau and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walther Rathenau written by Christian Schölzel and published by Brill Schoningh. This book was released on 2006 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Schölzel legt jetzt die umfassende neue Biographie des Politikers, Unternehmers und Philosophen Walther Rathenau vor. Er kann sich auf einen außergewöhnlichen Quellenfund stützen - sein Buch ist das erste seit 1928, das auf den mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert verschollen geglaubten Privat-Nachlaß Rathenaus zurückgreifen kann: auf rund 900 Aktenbände, die lange versteckt im einstigen Sonderarchiv des KGB in Moskau ruhten. Sie und Quellen aus über 80 weiteren Archiven zwischen Los Angeles und Moskau bilden die Grundlage für die weitgespannte Darstellung von Leben und Werk einer faszinierenden Persönlichkeit an der Schnittstelle zwischen Politik, Wirtschaft und Geistesleben.
