The tendency of the Reich’s economic administration to develop in this more interventionist direction had been pronounced ever since the end of World War I. The reformed Reichsbank, the Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Reich Labour Ministry and the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture were all products of World War I and its aftermath. 53 Many of the regulatory systems introduced after 1933 had been under discussion since the 1920s, including the electricity law and the new corporation law passed in 1937. However,
