{"title":"Charlotte Meentzen – Einblicke in ein Dresdner Naturkosmetik-Unternehmen der 30er und 40er Jahre","authors":"Alexandra-Kathrin Stanislaw-Kemenah","doi":"10.1515/zug-2024-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zug-2024-0001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In the early 1930s, the trained beautician Charlotte Meentzen founded a company in Dresden based on naturopathy with the three pillars of a cosmetics institute, production and school. The foundation, financed by her father Theodor Meentzen, a professional speaker and publicist as well as trade union and SPD member, took place at a time of upheaval that affected the prevailing image of women as well as economic and political conditions. Charlotte Meentzen and her sister Gertrud, who joined the company early on, belonged to a close circle of professional women who ventured into self-employment in an industry that was still controversial at the time. The essay focuses on Charlotte Meentzen as a person, the circumstances surrounding the founding of the company in terms of female entrepreneurship, the cosmetics industry in general and natural cosmetics in particular against the backdrop of the final years of the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era in the Saxon metropolis. At the time, Dresden was considered a stronghold of naturopathy and was proclaimed the «Stadt der Volksgesundheit» («City of Public Health») under the Nazi regime. Using (advertising) examples such as the guide published by Meentzen in 1941, «Heilkräfte im Dienste der Schönheit» («Healing powers in the service of beauty»), the actions of the company management between adaptation and self-assertion become clear. This applied not least to the years of reconstruction in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR, whereby the sisters always remained true to their convictions regarding individual health and beauty on the basis of natural remedies.","PeriodicalId":499161,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte","volume":"120 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140250209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ghassan Moazzin, Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China. Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870–1919, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2022, 334 S., $ 99,99.","authors":"Friederike Sattler","doi":"10.1515/zug-2024-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zug-2024-0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":499161,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140248690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geoffrey Jones, Deeply Responsible Business. A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2023, 431 S., € 34,95.","authors":"Hartmut Berghoff","doi":"10.1515/zug-2024-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zug-2024-0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":499161,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte","volume":"8 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140248744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Korrespondenzen mit Konrad Adenauer – ein Erfinder und seine Patentanwälte","authors":"Finni Jo Erdmann","doi":"10.1515/zug-2023-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zug-2023-0018","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Among German private inventors, former Federal Chancellor Dr. Konrad Adenauer is a peculiar case. Despite his (few) successful patents and his fame as a politician, hardly any aspects of his inventive activity have been studied scientifically so far. His correspondence with several patent attorneys lends itself to the following question: What functions could patent attorneys fulfil for private inventors in the first half of the 20th century? Using Adenauer as an example for this, it will be examined which roles his patent attorneys played for him and what added value resulted for Adenauer.","PeriodicalId":499161,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte","volume":"37 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140249904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Der Frankfurter «Auschwitz-Prozess», Peter Weiss und die I.G. Farben-Nachfolgefirmen","authors":"S. Lindner","doi":"10.1515/zug-2024-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zug-2024-0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":499161,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte","volume":"144 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140250192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Das unwahrscheinliche Überleben des Bankhauses Gebr. Bethmann, 1919 bis 1948","authors":"Andrea H. Schneider-Braunberger","doi":"10.1515/zug-2024-0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zug-2024-0013","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The long-term orientation of family businesses is particularly evident in crises. The example of the Gebrüder Bethmann bank in Frankfurt am Main, whose state of crisis began during the First World War and continued almost uninterrupted until the 50s, shows how far business families are prepared to go. The essay traces the developments and shows the measures taken by the bank and the banking family to counter the crises and their consequences. It shows that Baron Moritz von Bethmann made himself an instrument of the National Socialists and implemented their policies in associations, societies and companies – particularly with regard to the ousting of Jews from German economic and social life. However, his political role did not help him to run his business more successfully or to preserve his family property. In order to at least preserve Bankhaus Gebr. Bethmann – already almost 200 years old at the time – for the family, he sacrificed almost all of the real estate and land owned by the von Bethmann family. Despite this high price, the bank remained in the family for only one more generation.","PeriodicalId":499161,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte","volume":"55 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140250225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zur Rezension in der Geschäftsstelle eingegangene Bücher","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/zug-2024-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zug-2024-0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":499161,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte","volume":"53 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140250432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lars Bluma/Michael Farrenkopf/Torsten Meyer,\u0000 Boom – Crisis – Heritage. King Coal and the Energy Revolutions after 1945, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin/Boston 2022, 306 S., € 69,95.","authors":"Martin Baumert","doi":"10.1515/zug-2024-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zug-2024-0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":499161,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte","volume":"50 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140251148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}