German war-economy leaders regained control of their corporations within a few postwar years

Evidence

So it was with Mannesmann as well. Wilhelm Zangen, Leader of the War Economy' (Wehrwirtschaftsführer), who had been classed as incriminated after the war and sentenced to a prison term, became chairman of the board of directors in one of his own former Mannesmann factories at the beginning of 1949, against the protests of the works council, and the trustee administration also put him in charge of liquidating the old Mannesmann company. He immediately began to put the old corporation back together. By 1960 the reconstruction’ of Mannesmann Ltd was complete. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2056

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to broader postwar German denazification literature and to the contrast with the Frankfurt School’s own return to Germany. — connects to: A convicted Nazi war-economy leader reassembled his old corporation despite works-council protests.; Occupation authorities’ stabilization efforts preserved Nazi-era economic elites’ positions — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1639; MPS members moved between academia and corporate governance in postwar Germany — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1009 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• MPS members moved between academia and corporate governance in postwar Germany #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1009