Article ID: CBB195786976

Vom Röhren-Manager zum Verteidigungs-Staatssekretär und zurück: Der mehrfache Seitenwechsel von Ernst Wolf Mommsen (Revolving Doors: Ernst Wolf Mommsen’s journey from a Tube Manager to Under-Secretary of State for Defence and back) (2023)

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Hesse, Jan-Otmar (Author)


Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte
Volume: 68
Issue: 2
Pages: 227-254


Publication Date: 2023
Edition Details: Issue theme: "Revolving Doors" – Manager in Politics and Politicians in Business
Language: German

Ernst Wolf Mommsen (1910–1979) was one of the best-known steel managers of the old German Federal Republic. In 1970 he was recruited as an under-secretary of state by the Federal Ministry of Defence with responsibility for armaments and procurement and returned to industry in 1973 as Chairman of Friedrich Krupp GmbH. Based on extensive archival research, the article examines the background to this twofold switch through the «revolving door». The focus is on the question of whether Mommsen’s entrepreneurial activity could be used successfully in the state administration. Furthermore, the meaning of this revolving door phenomenon with respect to the entanglement of politics and industry in the German Federal Republic of the 70s will be discussed.

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Authors & Contributors
Peter Smithurst
Flachowsky, Sören
Neufeld, John L.
Wessel, Horst A.
Wright, Robert E.
Nina Kleinöder
Journals
Business History Review
Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte
Arms and Armour Society Journal
TG Technikgeschichte
Acta Historica Leopoldina
Ferrum
Publishers
Princeton University Press
University of Chicago Press
Yale University Press
Concepts
Business history
Political economy
Steel and steel industry
Management; administration
Armaments Industry
Regulation
People
Krupp, Friedrich Alfred
Kendrick, John W.
Hauttmann, Hubert (1895–1982)
Boulware, Lemuel R.
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Africa
Ottoman Empire
Austria
Institutions
Krupp AG
Thomas Firth
General Motors Corporation
United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
International Monetary Fund
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