Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: the business–government relationship
- Part I The business–politics paradigm
- Part II Banking finance
- Part III Business and politics in the National Socialist period
- 8 German business and the Nazi New Order
- 9 ‘Aryanisation’ in Central Europe, 1933–1939: a preliminary account for Germany (the ‘Altreich’), Austria and the ‘Sudeten’ area
- 10 The Gildemeester Organisation for Assistance to Emigrants and the expulsion of Jews from Vienna, 1938–1942
- 11 Deutsche Lufthansa and the German state, 1926–1941
- Part IV The business community and the state
- Appendix: Alice Teichova: a select bibliography
- Index
11 - Deutsche Lufthansa and the German state, 1926–1941
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: the business–government relationship
- Part I The business–politics paradigm
- Part II Banking finance
- Part III Business and politics in the National Socialist period
- 8 German business and the Nazi New Order
- 9 ‘Aryanisation’ in Central Europe, 1933–1939: a preliminary account for Germany (the ‘Altreich’), Austria and the ‘Sudeten’ area
- 10 The Gildemeester Organisation for Assistance to Emigrants and the expulsion of Jews from Vienna, 1938–1942
- 11 Deutsche Lufthansa and the German state, 1926–1941
- Part IV The business community and the state
- Appendix: Alice Teichova: a select bibliography
- Index
Summary
‘Airlines and politics have collided with each other from the beginning. The airlines, as they changed the shape of the world, were also locked into the ambitions of nations’
(Anthony Sampson).In its eighty-year history, the international airline industry has been funded by aircraft manufacturers, shipping companies, banks and starry-eyed entrepreneurs, but by far the largest and most consistent source of support has been national governments; airlines, to a degree unmatched by any other transport mode, are children of the state. The reason for this close relationship is that air transport has had a political importance independent of its commercial possibilities. Three prominent features have virtually guaranteed that the state takes an interest in airline activities. First, international air transport, in contrast to transport by land or sea, intrudes without hindrance into a nation's hinterland – enters, in the jargon of the trade, its ‘air space’ – and therefore airline operations have always had strategic implications. Second, because airlines rely on the most advanced technology in modern manufacturing, the state, owing to techno-nationalistic concerns, is highly prone to interfere in their management and aircraft procurement decisions. Third, there is the question of prestige. The major international airlines which were formed in the 1920s and early 1930s, i.e. KLM, Sabena, Imperial Airways, Deutsche Lufthansa, Pan American Airways, Swissair and Air France, were ‘flag-carriers’.
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- Business and Politics in Europe, 1900–1970Essays in Honour of Alice Teichova, pp. 246 - 266Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003