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OPTIMIZING THE GERMAN WORKFORCE Labor Administration from Bismarck to the Economic Miracle David Meskill Berghahn Books New York • Oxford This open access library edition is supported by Knowledge Unlatched. Not for resale. Published in 2010 by Berghahn Books www.berghahnbooks.com ©2010, 2018 David Meskill Open access ebook edition published in 2018 All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Meskill, David. Optimizing the German workforce : labor administration from Bismarck to the economic miracle / David Meskill. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Monographs in German history ; 31) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-84545-631-3 (hardback : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-78533-664-5 (open access ebook) 1. Employees—Training of—Germany. 2. Labor market—Germany. I. Title. HF5549.5.T7M4675 2010 331.120420943—dc22 2009025422 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-1-84545-631-3 hardback ISBN: 978-1-78533-664-5 open access ebook An electronic version of this book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the Open Access version can be found at knowledgeunlatched.org This work is published subject to a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivatives 4.0 International license. The terms of the license can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. For uses beyond those covered in the license contact Berghahn Books. To John and Johanna Meskill, loving parents, exemplary scholars This open access library edition is supported by Knowledge Unlatched. Not for resale. This open access library edition is supported by Knowledge Unlatched. Not for resale. CONTENTS Abbreviations viii Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1 “Organizing” the Labor Market in the Dynamic Kaiserreich 9 2 Promoting a Skilled Workforce 42 3 Toward Totalerfassung: Creating the National Labor Administration 67 4 Toward the German Skills Machine: Establishing Vocational Counseling and Training 108 5 Th e Nazi Consolidation of the Human Economies 141 6 Th e Labor Administration in the Economic Miracle 183 Conclusion: Th e Age of Organization 225 Bibliography 232 Index 258 This open access library edition is supported by Knowledge Unlatched. Not for resale. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ADGB Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (All-German Trade Unions Congress, also Free Trade Union) ANG Arbeitsnachweisgesetz (Labor Exchange Law) BDA Bundesvereinigung deutscher Arbeitgeberverbände (Federation of German Industries) BDI Bundesverband der deutschen Industrie (Association of German Industry) CVDI Centralverband deutscher Industrieller (Central Association of German Industrialists) DAF Deutsche Arbeitsfront (German Labor Front) DATSCH Deutscher Ausschuss für technisches Schulwesen (German Committee for Technical Schooling) DHV Deutschnationaler Handlungsgehilfen-Verband (German National Union of Commercial Employees) DINTA Deutsches Institut für technische Arbeitsschulung (German Institute for Technical Labor Training) DNVP Deutschnationale Volkspartei (German National People’s Party) DGB Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (German Trade Unions Congress, also Free Trade Union) KPD Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (German Communist Party) LAA Landesarbeitsamt (State Labor Offi ce) LGA Landesgewerbeamt (Prussian State Industrial Offi ce) RKW Reichskuratorium für Wirtschaftlichkeit (National Productivity Board) SPD Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany) USPD Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische