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By Shulamit Volkov
Published January 24,
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“Incisive and probing” —The Washington Times

This deeply informed biography of Walther Rathenau (–) tells of a man who—both thoroughly German and unabashedly Jewish—rose to leadership in the German War-Ministry Department during the First World War, and later to the exalted position of foreign minister in the early days of the Weimar Republic. His achievement was unprecedented—no Jew in Germany had ever attained such high political rank. But Rathenau’s success was marked by tragedy: within months he was assassinated by right-wing extremists seeking to destroy the newly formed Republic.

Drawing on Rathenau’s papers and on a depth of knowledge of both modern German and German-Jewish history, Shulamit Volkov creates a finely drawn portrait of this complex man who struggled with his Jewish identity yet treasured his “otherness.” Volkov also places Rathenau in the dual context of Imperial and Weimar Germany and of Berlin’s financial and intellectual elite. Above all, she illuminates the complex social and psychological milieu of German Jewry in the period before Hitler’s rise to power.

Rathenau, Walther

By Christian Schölzel

Walter Rathenau ()
Walther Rathenau was one of Germany’s most influential entrepreneurs before the First World War, one of the main organizers of Germany’s war economy during the First World War, and German Minister of Foreign Affairs after the First World War.
Unknown photographer: Walter Rathenau, black-and-white photograph, n.p., ; source: Bundesarchiv, Bild L, via Wikimedia Commons, :Bundesarchiv_Bild_L,
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Rathenau, Walther

(Hartenau, Walter)

German Entrepreneur, philosopher, and politician

Born 29 September in Berlin, Germany

Died 24 June in Berlin, Germany


Summary

Walther Rathenau was one of the most influential entrepreneurs before the First World War. In / he became one of the main organizers of Germany’s war economy. After World War I he supported the “policy of fulfilment”. As German Minister of Foreign Affairs he signed the Treaty of Rapallo with Soviet Russia in

Introduction

Walther Rathenau () was born into the grand-bourgeoisie in Berlin as the first child of Mathilde Rathenau () and Emil Rathenau (). The J

RATHENAU WALTHER ()

Homme d&#;affaires et homme d&#;État allemand. Séduisant par son ambiguïté, Walther Rathenau fut d&#;abord un magnat de l&#;industrie où il succéda à son père, fondateur du konzern Allgemeine Elektrizitäts Gesellschaft (A.E.G.). D&#;abord ingénieur, il joue un rôle non négligeable dans l&#;expansion technique de la firme ; puis, après quatre ans passés à la direction d&#;une société commerciale, il prend en sa place à la direction de l&#;A.E.G., qu&#;il préside à la mort de son père en , mais qu&#;il dirige en fait dès

En même temps, Rathenau mène une vie intellectuelle très active, participant à la rédaction de la revue Die Zukunft où il prend des positions très marquées sur le sionisme, défendant des thèses intégrationnistes. D&#;autre part, il devient un collaborateur officieux du gouvernement impérial, participant à des voyages d&#;études dans le Sud-Ouest africain. Par ailleurs, Rathenau publie plusieurs essais de qualité, généralement favorables à la « mécanisation » et à l&#;industrialisation du monde qui permettront le « règne de l&#;âme ».

En , Rathenau devient le directeur de l&#;Office des matières premières, ce qui lui per

 

Walther Rathenau Biography

Walther Rathenau (September 29, - June 24, ) was a German industrialist and politician, whose Jewish capitalist background was like a red flag to the post-war right-wing bulls. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Weimar Republic in , prior to his assassination. 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.

Rathenau is thought to be the basis for the German industrialist character Arnheim in Robert Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities.

In spite of his desire for economic and political cooperation between Germany and Russia, Rathenau remained skeptical of the Russian Bolsheviks' methods. In his Kritik der dreifachen Revolution ("Critique of the triple revolution"), he noted:

"We cannot use Russia's methods, as they only and at best prove that the economy of an agrarian nation can be leveled to the ground; Russia's thoughts are not our thoughts. They are, as it is in the spirit of the Russian city intelligence, unphilosophical and highly di

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