Poems in steel : national socialism and the politics of inventing from Weimar to Bonn

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Poems in steel : national socialism and the politics of inventing from Weimar to Bonn

Kees Gispen

(Monographs in German history, ; v. 6)

Berghahn Books, 2002

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-347) and index

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The role of National Socialism in the development of German society remains a central question of historical inquiry. This study presents original answers by examining the politics of inventing, a crucial but long ignored problem at the intersection of the history of technology, legal, political, and business history. The analysis of conflicts over the rights of inventors and the meaning of inventing from the 1920s to the 1950s reveals a deep chasm, reaching back to the late nineteenth century, between the forces of capital and big business on one hand and the exponents of intellectual capital - inventors, engineers, industrial scientists - on the other.

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Tables and Figures Abbreviations Epigraph Acknowledgements Introduction PART I Chapter 1. The Inventor in German Law and History: A Comparative Perspective PART II Chapter 2. Charting Survival: The Chemists' Contract of 1920 Chapter 3. Struggles and Setbacks, 1920-1924 Chapter 4. Compromise Found and Lost, 1925-1929 Chapter 5. Rationalization, National Socialism, and Inventors at IG Farben, 1925-1933 Chapter 6. The Great Depression and the Origins of Nazi Patent Reform, 1928-1932 PART III Chapter 7. Heinrich Jebens and the Reich Inventor Office Chapter 8. Nazi Revolution: The 1936 Patent Code Chapter 9. Inventor Trusteeship in the Making, 1936-1940 Chapter 10. Inventor Trusteeship and the "Production Miracle", 1941-1944 Chapter 11. German Technological Culture and the Inventor Ordinances of 1942 and 1943 Chapter 12. "Appropriate Compensation" PART V Chapter 13. The Politics of Inventing after 1945 Works Cited Index

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