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Visions of Socialization and Political Reality—the Position of Labour Minister Heinrich Brauns

In: The First Socialization Debate (1918) and Early Efforts Towards Socialization

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  • Daniel Eissrich

    (Deutsche Bundesbank)

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The paper highlights the role of Heinrich Brauns, Reich Minister of Labour from 1920 to 1928, in the conflict over socialization efforts at the beginning of the Weimar Republic. It becomes clear that Brauns was quite willing to make limited concessions to the advocates of socialization, for example on the question of the socialization of the coal industry, but rejected a comprehensive shift away from the capitalist system. The disunity of the socialists and workers in respect of socialization efforts led to a more and more negative attitude of Heinrich Browns concerning the topic of socialisation. It was this disunity which allowed industry and industry representatives in politics to apply a delaying tactic until ultimately the threat of using nationalized companies for reparation payments provided an opportunity to finally bring an end to the socialization debate.

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  • Daniel Eissrich, 2019. "Visions of Socialization and Political Reality—the Position of Labour Minister Heinrich Brauns," The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences, in: Jürgen Backhaus & Günther Chaloupek & Hans A. Frambach (ed.), The First Socialization Debate (1918) and Early Efforts Towards Socialization, pages 31-44, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:euhchp:978-3-030-15024-2_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15024-2_3
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