History of the Inventory Designer: NDB 10, p. 10 ff - Dankwart Guratzsch, Macht durch Organisation. The foundation of the Hugenberg Press Empire, Düsseldorf 1974 economic leader, member of the National Assembly, Member of the German Parliament (DNVP, 1919-1933, guest of the NSDAP 1933-1945), Reich Minister (1933) Description of the holdings: Personal documents, speeches, material collections, general and political correspondence as well as fact files on activities in the following functions: Board member of the General German Association (since 1891), member of the Settlement Commission in Poznan (1894-1899) and of the High Council in Kassel (1899-1900), director of the Raiffeisen cooperatives (since 1900), the Landesgenossenschaften (since 1900), the Landesgenosenschaftsbank GmbH and the Deutsche Lagerhaus GmbH in Poznan, unskilled worker and lecturer at the Prussian Ministry of Finance (1903-1907), Member of the Executive Board of Berg- und Metallbank in Frankfurt (1908), First Chairman of the Executive Committee of Friedrich Krupp AG (1909-1918), Head of the Hugenberg Group (since 1914), member of the Weimar National Assembly and the Reichstag (1919-1945), Party Chairman of the DNVP (1928-1933), Reich Minister of Economics and Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture (1933); Documents worth mentioning on the establishment of the press group, denazification and activities after 1945, as well as some fragments from the estates of the economic leader Hans von Loewenstein zu Loewenstein, Wilhelm Hirsch, member of the Reichstag, and Otto Meesmann, lawyer, and documents from the DNVP press office. Group management documents, mainly hand files and replacement records of lost registration parts due to the effects of the war: general business correspondence, correspondence and files relating to August Scherl GmbH (since 1937: August Scherl Nachf.) and August Scherl Handels- und Verwaltungs-KG (since 1944: Opriba Handels- und Verwaltungs-KG) with documents on the development and expansion of the Hugenberg Group from the founding of Ausland GmbH (Essen) in 1914 to the gradual dismantling during the Nazi era, in particular information on committees and advisory councils, shareholders' meetings, annual reports, audit reports, balance sheets, shareholdings, tax and personnel matters. (Status: 1977) - Special terms of use - Citation method: BArch, N 1231/...