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  Walther Rathenau - Definition, explanation
Walther Rathenau (September 29, 1867–June 24, 1922) was a German industrialist and politician who served as Foreign Minister of Germany.
Rathenau was born in Berlin, the son of Emil Rathenau, a prominent Jewish businessman and founder of the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) electrical-engineering company.
Rathenau was a leading proponent of a policy of assimilation for German Jews: he argued that Jews should oppose both Zionism and socialism, but should instead integrate themselves into mainstream German society.
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  Walther Rathenau
Walther Rathenau (September 29, 1867 -- June 24, 1922), German industrialist and politician, was born in Berlin, the son of Emil Rathenau, a prominent Jewish businessman and founder of the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) electrical-engineering company.
Rathenau was a leading proponent of a policy of assimilation for German Jews: he argued that Jews should oppose both Zionism and socialism, but should instead integrate themselves into mainstream German society.
After the war Rathenau, a moderate liberal in politics, was one of the founders of the German Democratic Party (DDP).
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 Walther Rathenau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Walther Rathenau (September 29, 1867–June 24, 1922) was a German industrialist and politician who served as Foreign Minister of Germany.
Rathenau was born in Berlin, the son of, a prominent Jewish businessman and founder of the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) electrical-engineering company.
Rathenau is thought to be the basis for the German industrialist character Arnheim in Robert Musil's novel.
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Walther Rathenau was born in Berlin on 29 September 1867 and died there on 24 June 1922, assassinated by a member of the recently founded National Socialist (Nazi) party.
Rathenau was fully aware that industrialization had changed the way that people lived, and that it was in the process of destroying traditional family life.
Rathenau was opposed to monopolies, and despite his wealth believed business should be owned by the worker but managed only by the most competent of managers.
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 Walther Rathenau Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The German industrialist and statesman Walther Rathenau (1867-1922) pioneered the public management of raw materials in his country during World War I. As postwar foreign minister, he inaugurated a new policy of reconciliation with Germany's former enemies.
Walther Rathenau, born in Berlin on Sept. 29, 1867, was the son of the famed German-Jewish entrepreneur Emil Rathenau (1838-1915), founder (1883) and president of AEG, the mammoth German General Electric Company.
After the war Rathenau was brought into the government by Finance Minister Joseph Wirth in March 1920 as a member of the Socialization Committee and subsequently attended the Spa Conference on Disarmament as a technical assistant (July 1920).
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 Walther Rathenau - Encyclopedia.com
In his writings, Rathenau contended that the days of unfettered capitalism were over and argued that technological change and industrialization were pushing civilization toward a stage of extreme mechanization, in which the human soul would be lost.
Jewish industrialist made his mark in politics; Walther Rathenau was a key figure in the Weimar Republic.
Walther Rathenau, the foreign minister of the Weimar Republic and a leading Jewish industrialist, was assassinated in a place two...
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Walther Rathenau (September 29 1867 - June 24 1922, assassinated) was a (Jewish) German industrialist and politician.
In spite of his desire for economic and political cooperation between Germany and Soviet Russia, Rathenau remained skeptical of the Russian Bolsheviks' methods.
On June 24 1922, a group of extreme right-wing youths shot Rathenau in his car, near his house in Berlin, on the way to the ministry.
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 Walther Rathenau - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Rathenau, Walther (1867-1922), German political economist and government official, born in Berlin.
Nernst, Walther Hermann (1864-1941), German physical chemist and Nobel laureate, best known for his contributions to the field of thermodynamics....
Walther Rathenau (September 29, 1867 – June 24, 1922) was a German industrialist, politician, writer, and statesman who served as Foreign Minister of Germany during the...
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 Biographie: Walther Rathenau, 1867-1922
September: Walther Rathenau wird als Sohn des jüdischen Industriellen Emil Rathenau und seiner Frau Mathilde (geb.
Rathenaus Vater gründet die Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft, die 1887 in Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) umbenannt wird.
Rathenau studiert Physik, Chemie und Philosophie in Berlin und Straßburg.
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Walther Rathenau valued these links with the intellectual life and culture of an older generation, and he was never to lose his veneration for the world of Goethe, who always remained for him 'one of the four evangelists of German culture' (the others were Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Bach).
Rathenau's own austerity was to be imposed on everyone; and he was particularly severe on women's extravagances and the whole apparatus which caters for their addiction to irrational and changing fashions.
Rathenau was one of its early supporters, and he was anxious to be a candidate in the elections for the National Assembly which was to launch the new republic.
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 H-Soz-u-Kult / Rezensionen / Rez. NEG: Chr. Schölzel: Walther Rathenau
Walther Rathenau war eine der schillerndsten, aber auch widersprüchlichsten Persönlichkeiten des späten Kaiserreichs und der Weimarer Republik.
Schölzel sieht in Walther Rathenau einen Mann, der die verschiedenen Zeitebenen, in denen er lebte, zu vereinen wußte.
Rathenau habe den Weg einer — in ihrer Formenvielfalt überaus kreativen — Anpassung gesucht.
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 Walther P5 Compact   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Stephan was initially the religious leader (and self-proclaimed bishop) of the new settlement, but he soon became embroiled in charges of corruption and sexual misconduct, and was expelled from the settlement, leaving Walther as the senior clergyman.
Walther's view that they could consider themselves a new church prevailed, and in May 1841 he became Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, a position he held until his death.
Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe (January 8, 1891 – February 8, 1957) was a German physicist, mathematician, chemist, and Nobel Prize winner.
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 Joseph Wirth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Along with his foreign minister, Walther Rathenau, Wirth set out to follow a policy of "fulfillment" with respect to Germany's reparations in order to show that Germany was incapable of payment.
May 29, 1921 - Walther Rathenau (DDP) enters the cabinet as Reconstruction Minister.
February 1, 1922 - Walther Rathenau (DDP) succeeds Wirth as Foreign Minister.
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 Walther Rathenau Biography
Walther Rathenau (September 29, 1867 - June 24, 1922) was a German industrialist and politician, whose Jewish capitalist background was like a red flag to the post-war right-wing bulls.
After World War I he concluded a rapprochement between the German Weimar Republic and Bolshevist Russia, and his assassination may have significantly influenced the long-term political and economic development of Europe.
In spite of his desire for economic and political cooperation between Germany and Russia, Rathenau remained skeptical of the Russian Bolsheviks' methods.
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 Walther Rathenau - Die Geschichte der Wahrheit - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
Walther Rathenau, geboren 1867 in Berlin, war ein deutscher Industrieller, Politiker (Deutsche Demokratische Partei) und kurzzeitig Außenminister der Weimarer Republik.
Walther Rathenau war einer der Mitgründer der linksliberalen Deutschen Demokratischen Partei.
Walther Rathenaus (1867-1922) berühmte Essays von "kommenden Dingen" handeln vom Menschen und davon, wie er zu einem guten, erfüllten Leben kommt.
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 Walther Rathenau
Walther Rathenau, the son of Emil Rathenau, a successful Jewish businessman who founded Allgemeine-Elektrizitats-Gellellschaft (AEG), was born in Berlin on 29th September, 1867.
After university Rathenau joined AEG and by the outbreak of the First World War he was head of the company.
Walther Rathenau was assassinated by two right-wing army officers on 24th June, 1922.
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 Writings on Economics and Management   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Walther Rathenau (1867—1922) was an industrialist and politician who played a leading role in the reconstruction of Germany after the First World War.
As head of the electrical goods corporation AEG, Rathenau was Germany's wealthiest man. He was appointed Minister for Reconstruction in 1921 and then in 1922 he became Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Even so, followers of Rathenau and his ideas continued to be prominent in German government circles through the rest of the decade; and, ironically, the Nazis would later adopt many of his ideas on the relationship between government and the state.
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 Judaism: The murder of Walter Rathenau
In August 1922, a Thuringian farmer assured his American train-mate that Rathenau had been killed simply "because he was a Jew." The trial of Rathenau's murderers confirmed that two of his assassins were fanatic anti-Semites who believed that they were eliminating a "pernicious influence," an "international Jew" who aimed to introduce bolshevism into Germany.
The reactions to the murder of Walther Rathenau foretold not only the destruction of the Weimar Republic but also the threat to the existence of the Jews of Germany and Europe.
Rathenau's private papers, which disappeared during World War II, were recently discovered in the former Special Government Archive in Russia: See Ernst Schulin, Rathenau in Moskau," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 29, 1992.
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 Remember Walther Rathenau, by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. (Jun. 10, 2005)
Once again, today, threats of the type which felled Rathenau and others are being delivered, or are messages being prepared to be sent soon to leading political figures around the world.
Rathenau was neither the first nor the last German to be assassinated by forces similarly motivated.
Directly parallel to the strategic implications of the assassination of Walther Rathenau is that of the Nov. 30, 1989 assassination of Deutsche Bank head Alfred Herrhausen.
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 Rathenau, Walther --  Encyclopædia Britannica
After World War I, Bothe was a professor at the University of Berlin from 1920 to 1931, a professor at Giessen University from 1931 to 1934, and researcher and administrator at the Max Planck Institute from 1934 to...
Considered the greatest German lyric poet of the Middle Ages, Walther von der Vogelweide wrote verse emphasizing the virtues of a balanced life, in the social as in the personal sphere.
American denominational branch of Lutheranism; founded 1849 in Chicago by German immigrants; first president was C.F.W. Walther; based in St. Louis, Mo.; strong emphasis on education, with large system of parochial schools, colleges, and seminaries; conservative stance often separates it from other Lutheran bodies; underwent internal strife beginning in 1969 over...
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 Manfred and Anne Lehmann Foundation
The case of Walther Rathenau, the German foreign minister after World War I, was, however, quite a different case.
Walther’s genius extended beyond science, he was also a deep-thinking philosopher and author.
Once of his assassins upon being released from jail joined the French Foreign Legion, and in a gesture of atonement, is said to have helped a large number of Jews escape from the Germans in Marseilles in 1940.
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 Erinnerungsorte
hatte Rathenau 1909 aus Hohenzollernbesitz erworben und ihm bei der Restaurierung bis in das Interieur den frühklassizistischen Stil zurückgegeben, in dem es von der preußischen Königin Friederike Luise gegen Ende des 18.
Heute steht das Schloss, das nach Rathenaus Tod erst Gedenkstätte, dann 1933 Hohenzollernmuseum und nach 1945 "Puschkin-Haus" wurde, in der Ruhe des es umgebenden Parks als ein stilles Symbol des besonderen deutschen Weges in die Moderne.
In ihm befindet sich 1991 wieder eine Rathenau-Gedenkstätte, die eine ständige Ausstellung "Walther Rathenau und Schloss Freienwalde" beherbergt.
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 Joseph Wirth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
May 29, 1921 - Walther Rathenau (DDP) enters the cabinet as.
March 10, 1922 - (Bavarian Peasants' League) succeeds Hermes as Food Minister.
This page was last modified 07:22, 8 May 2005.
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 Joseph Wirth
Ich glaube, ich war es Dr. Rathenau schuldig, noch einige Worte hierin die Debatte einzuflechten.
Minister Dr. Rathenau hat am Abend vor seinem Tode mit einem Herrn ausIhrer Fraktion, meine Herrn von der Deutschen Volkspartei, bei einem Diplomatenbis 1 Uhr nachts zugebracht, nicht etwa, wie man da und dort vermuten könnte,um sich zu ergötzen.
Rathenau war wie kaum einer zu dieser Aufgabeberufen.
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 Walther Rathenau
Walther Rathenau zählt wie Max Weber, Friedrich Naumann und Gustav Stresemann zu den herausragenden Persönlichkeiten der Geschichte der deutschen Demokratie in der ersten Hälfte des 20.
Unter ihnen war er zweifellos der Umstrittenste und Widersprüchlichste, und gerade dies hat das seit Jahrzehnten ungebrochene Interesse an ihm immer wieder neu entfacht.
Selten traten in einer Person Wechselbeziehungen und Widersprüche zwischen Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Politik und Kultur in Deutschland so deutlich in Erscheinung wie im Leben und im Werk Walther Rathenaus.
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