Weimar Republic Golden Years - Jews
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- Created on: 02-06-19 15:32
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- Politics
- Prominent in SPD and KPD.
- Walter Rathenau - foreign minister in 1922 and was leading member of the DDP.
- Well established in politics before 1914.
- Media
- Producers and directors dominated theatre.
- Publishing firms were powerful. Two in particular - Berliner Tageblatt and Frankfurter Zeitung.
- Influence on the publishing of books and newspapers.
- Theodor Wolff - editor of the Berliner and driving force behind liberal DDP.
- Economy
- Families such as the Rothschilds owned about half of private banks.
- 1920s role of Jewish banks were declining
- Firms dominated mining and steelworks.
- considerable wealth, influence in industry (extent was exaggerated in propaganda).
- Professions
- More than half the doctors in 1930 were Jewish
- Significant impact on academic life, with 9 out of 38 Nobel Prizes.
- Very successful in law (16%) and medicine (11%).
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