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In conformity with the principles of the national government, and at
the same time in the interests of a uniform and rigorous execution —
excluding any future individual action — of the tasks facing the Reich
Association, the leadership principle [Fuehrerprinzip] will be put into
practice in the following form for the over-all organization of the industrial
associations:
In accordance with the resolution of the Praesidium, made
on 6 April, by which the chairman, Dr. Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, was
unanimously authorized to prepare and carry out the measures for the
simplification and reorganization of the industrial associations, Herr von
Bohlen will use the extraordinary power conferred on him to —
1.
bring the existing economic factors in the field of the organization of
industrial associations into line with political necessity;
2. bring
the new organization into agreement with the political aims of the Reich
Government and to mold it at the same time on such rational and vigorous lines
that, corresponding to the importance of industry, it can be an effective
instrument of industrial economy within the framework of national, social, and
economic reconstruction in every field.
This twofold task extends not
only to the reorganization of the Reich Association of German Industry itself
(i. e., in particular, the carrying out of all necessary measures concerning
organization and personnel), but it embraces also the whole gamut of questions
arising from the division of the economy according to professions. The primary
aim of economy and industry must be to eliminate excessive organization while
adhering as closely as possible to the existing state of affairs and preserving
the precious possession of free self-administration, and to mold the
organization in as simple and effective a manner as possible. The
impoverishment of our nation compels us not only to simplify drastically the
machinery of government but also to eliminate all overlapping in the
association system which has arisen more or less accidentally as a result of
historical development and has led to a frequently inorganic division.
In carrying out these tasks, which have already been taken up
energetically with the cooperation of the Reich Commissioners appointed by the
Reich Minister of Economics, the Chairman of the Reich Association will refer
to wishes and lines of thought already cherished and expressed by himself.
Special advisory committees will be appointed to deal with individual
current questions; for instance, the organization and division according to
professions, the ethical basis indispensable also for economic life, the
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