National Socialist Economic Policy

by Gottfried Feder, Daniel Zakal (Editor), Friendly Father (Cover Art)

Gottfried Feder born on January 27th, 1883, in Würzburg, Germany and died on September 24th, 1941, in Murnau. He was a German political activist who was the principal economic theoretician of the initial phase of German National Socialism. Feder, a civil engineer, gained notoriety in 1919 for his book 'Manifesto for Breaking the Thralldom of Interest, and his speech before a German Workers' Party meeting at Munich in September of that year provided the immediate inspiration for Adolf Hitler's entry into politics. Feder's socialist and anti-capitalist ideas subsequently found expression in Adolf Hitler's 25-point program for the National Socialist German Workers' Party (N.S.D.A.P.) in March 1920, as well as in Feder's own book, 'German State on the National Socialist Foundation', considered by Hitler to be "The catechism of the National Socialist movement." Between 1924 and 1936 Feder sat in the German Reichstag and served as chairman of the N.S.D.A.P. economic council in 1931, state secretary of the German Ministry of Economics in 1933, and state housing commissioner in 1934. With the general accommodation of National Socialist policy to the existing economic system. However, Feder's role in party affairs drastically diminished, and by 1936, he had been relegated to virtual obscurity.

392 pages, Hardcover

Published April 30, 2022

About the author

German economist and one of the key members of the German Workers Party, which later became the Nazi Party.

In 1917 he wrote an manifesto against intrest economics, which called for the nationalisation of the banks and bolishment of interest.

Feder also wrote the first 25 point programm for the NSDAP.

During the second world war he kept publishing newspapers and in 1934 he became a Reichskommissa. In 1939 he drafted a programm for German garden city building.

After the night of long knives, Feder withdrew from the government and became a professor at a technical university. Which he stayed untill his death in 1941.

Reviews

[Eduardo · Rating 5 out of 5]

National Socialist Economic Policy de Gottfried Feder es una obra fundamental que expone las bases económicas del nacional socialismo, proponiendo una economía que esté completamente subordinada al bienestar del pueblo y la soberanía nacional. Feder argumenta que el sistema económico liberal y capitalista ha esclavizado a las naciones, especialmente a través de la especulación financiera y la usura, y aboga por una economía basada en la producción y el trabajo nacional. El autor sostiene que el Estado debe intervenir de manera decidida para eliminar la usura, nacionalizar los recursos estratégicos y fomentar una economía autosuficiente que sirva a los intereses del pueblo y de la nación.

Feder rechaza el individualismo extremo y el capitalismo desenfrenado, proponiendo en su lugar un sistema económico en el que el Estado sea el garante de una distribución justa de los recursos y un motor para la creación de riqueza que beneficie a la comunidad nacional. La obra defiende la creación de un sistema económico cerrado que proteja los intereses nacionales y mantenga el control de la economía en manos del Estado, con el objetivo de evitar que el poder económico caiga en manos extranjeras o de un grupo financiero minoritario.

Esta propuesta resalta la importancia de un orden económico autoritario y centralizado, en el que se combinen el nacionalismo, la justicia social y el bienestar colectivo. Para aquellos que suscriben a la visión nacional socialista, la obra de Feder es clave, ya que ofrece un marco para construir una economía que priorice la unidad nacional, el trabajo, la producción y la autosuficiencia, alejándose de las influencias del mercado global y de las élites financieras internacionales.