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bound to use its influence to secure a just pay policy of the
corporation and to create healthy working conditions.
b. The
politico-economic duties [die volkswirtschaftlichen Pflichten].
The
Vorstand, in managing the corporation, is to take care of the common interests
of people and Reich (cf. also par. 1, of the AOG [Arbeitsordnungsgesetz]
concerning the enterprise leader [Betriebsfuehrer]). The corporation's economic
policy must fall in line [sich eingliedern] with the German political economy
[Volkswirtschaft] ; the interests of the corporation are to be subordinated to
those of people and Reich. The Vorstand is to make sure at all times, that the
assets entrusted to it do not only pertain to the interests of the stockholders
and creditors of the corporation, but that, at the same time, they are an
integral part of our national property [Volksvermoegen], with the maintenance
and growth of which the entire German nation is concerned. As trustee of the
most precious parts of the national assets, the Vorstand has an extremely great
responsibility.
The regard for the common interest of people and Reich,
which is most clearly demonstrated by the revised conception of economics on
the part of national socialism, and which is, in effect, the unwritten preamble
to the Stock Corporation Law, is especially expressed in several individual
provisions of the law (cf. particularly, par. 12, subpar. 2, concerning the
admissibility of additional voting rights; par. 112, subpar. 3, concerning the
refusal to impart information; par. 121, subpar. 3, covering the report by the
special auditors [Sonderpruefer] ; par. 128, subpar. 3, covering the annual
report; and par. 288, concerning the state's right of dissolution [staatliches
Aufloesungsrecht] ). The common interests of people and Reich thus have become
a rule of conduct [Richtschnur] for the interpretation of the whole law.
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