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  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I Early years and rise of the company (1886-1932)
  • 1 Robert Bosch
  • portrait of a founder
  • 2 The difficult early years
  • 3 The period of rapid growth
  • The irresistible rise of the Bosch magneto
  • The first regional subsidiaries and the conquest of the U.S. market
  • The transition to a large-scale enterprise and the introduction of the eight-hour working day
  • The strike of 1913
  • The company on the eve of the First World War
  • 4 The First World War and its aftermath
  • The war
  • a turning point
  • Conversion to a stock corporation and establishment of VVB
  • Changing times: Robert Bosch AG and the aftermath of war
  • Organizational development and the evolution of a sense of identity
  • 5 The 1926 crisis, and diversification in the Great Depression
  • Causes, course, and repercussions of the great crisis of 1926
  • The restructuring of 1926-27 and the resolution of the crisis
  • Trial and tribulation on the way to the diesel injection pump
  • Building up a presence outside Germany and battling for the U.S. market
  • Between sackings and shorter working weeks: Bosch in the Great Depression
  • Power tools, refrigerators, radios, and gas-fired water heaters: the first phase of diversification and the rise of a conglomerate
  • II Bosch in the Third Reich (1933-1945)
  • 1 The Bosch Group in the economic upswing of National Socialism (1933-1939)
  • The development of the enterprise and its subsidiaries
  • The transformation of Robert Bosch AG into a GmbH
  • 2 "Corporate community" versus "people's community": Bosch, the NSDAP, and the National Socialist regime
  • Robert Bosch AG after the National Socialist assumption of power
  • Clashes and compromises with the NSDAP
  • Between "model company" and "state within the state": Bosch under wartime totalitarianism
  • 3 Bosch and the Jews
  • Jews and people of Jewish descent at Robert Bosch AG and GmbH
  • For the sake of justice and humanity: how the Bosch circle helped Jews
  • Aryanizations: acquiring equity interests and real estate from Jewish ownership
  • 4 Involvement in rearmament and arms production in the Second World War
  • Bosch and rearmament
  • Emergence and early years of Dreilinden Maschinenbau GmbH
  • From Elektro- und Feinmechanische Industrie GmbH to Trillke-Werke GmbH
  • Concealing operations outside Germany
  • Integration into Germany's wartime economy
  • The last year of the war
  • 5 Beyond the bounds of the ""Bosch community"": forced labor
  • 6 The Bosch circle and resistance to Hitler
  • 7 Death and legacy of Robert Bosch
  • The legacy: a family company
  • with reservations
  • III Adaptation and change between economic boom and economic crises (1945-1983)
  • 1 Reconstruction in the shadow of Allied decartelization policy and disagreements within the company
  • Continuities and breaks with the past: the struggle for positions of power within the company