Interlocking Directorates of Bank’s Supervisory Board and Managing Board Members in Other Enterprises During National Socialism

Large business systems established on ties between industries and banks were the cornerstone of German capital accumulation and important for the process of German corporate development. Assignment of bank directors to industrial enterprises and interlocking directorates were two of the most important means of sharing information and coordinating the interests of industries and banks. During inflationary after World War I, numbers of companies in which banks built interlocking directorates and interlocking supervisory boards mandate in other enterprises increased than during the shift to a monopolistic capitalism in the early-twentieth century. How did conditions of interlocking directorates of members of top management organs on the supervisory board of other enterprise change during National Socialism? This chapter clarifies the actual conditions of such personnel connections between a bank and enterprises and between banks.