Talk:Alfred Hugenberg

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Re STEIGBÜGELHALTER. The authors of the article are to be highly recommended for holding out against an army of slanderers intent upon blackening the name of this great man. This is all the more remarkable as even the German Wikipedia has meanwhile succumbed to the onslaught, calling Hugenberg a Steigbügelhalter i.e. a man who helped put Hitler in the saddle. Others go even further, claiming e.g. that Hugenberg and his friends thought they were so smart that they could control the Nazis and use them for advancing their own interests. This, of course, is out and out nonsense. People like Hugenberg know their history. They would have known that in real life Dr Frankenstein's stupid monster always comes out on top. Hugenberg and his friends therefore would never have embarked on such a scheme. They wouldn't even have thought of it. Let us hope that the people here will not be misled like their German colleagues to present these unfounded allegations in the article.--BZ(Bruno Zollinger) 12:23, 19 August 2006 (UTC)


 * some support @ Bruno Zollinger.
 * On March 17th 2005, the Federal Administrative Court of Germany (AZ: 3 C 20:04) in Leipzig confirmed Hugenbergs role as a forerunner of Nazi domination.
 * http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugenberg#Rechtsstreit_um_Entnazifizierung_und_Anspruch_auf_Entsch.C3.A4digungszahlungen
 * as well in this artikel here is not mentioned, that Hugenberg was for more than 10 years the finance CEO of Krupp AG -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Krupp_von_Bohlen_und_Halbach, today -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThyssenKrupp . No sooner the first world war in 1918 was terminated and the Friedrich Krupp AG was not allowed to produce weapons ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles#Military_restrictions ), there Hugenberg finished in 1918 his mandate as finance-CEO at Krupp and founded in the same year a right party and bought amongst others with krupp-funds neuralgic points of the german press landscape and was so in the position to tune the germans for 15 years to 1933 and the following disasters. May be you skroll down this artikle and learn more... -> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugenberg
 * - 01:06 (CEST) | 05-08-2009 | fromGermay  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.182.73.152 (talk) 23:08, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

His media
I generally liked the article. It could need more structuring. What I missed was a mentioning of which newspapers, etc. he actually controlled, i.e. an indicator of how important his influence was. --Ben T/C 00:21, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Later life
The article badly needs more information on his life between 1933 and 1951. The book "For the Survival of Democracy" notes that he became a non-person after his party was forced to disband and he resigned from the cabinet, which probably accounts for the limited information readily available, but somewhere there must be some fascinating details of how he made it through the War. Off2Explore 22:57, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

I can't believe this guy survived the war, and the wrath of the allies. He seems to have managed to avoid offending anyone after 1933. 63.155.161.60 (talk) 11:34, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Too little source variety
For an article 13000 words long, there is a severe lack of variety in the sources. The over-reliance on Leopold is particularly egregious and leaves the article more a summary of the source than an encyclopedia's overview. Viddog (talk) 22:53, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Volkskonservatismus
I can't really find this term anywhere on the internet. Regardless, I changed the spelling from "volkkonservatismus". MAKreler (talk) 11:05, 14 April 2023 (UTC)