DISORDER AND DELUSION: AN ECONOMICS MINISTER FOR THE THIRD REICH

the relations between Allianz executives and the National Socialists appear to have been limited to a very few persons at the top of the concern, and there is no record of how many of the concern's personnel were sympathetic to the Nazis or involved with them. Schmitt's dealings with Göring and Hitler had been private, and Allianz apparently banned partisan political activity or the wearing or carrying of party uniforms, insignia, and the like at work before January 30, 1933, and for as long as it could afterward. The only evidence found so far of official favor to the Party came from Munich, where Barerstraße 15, a building owned by Allianz, was used on November 30, 1930, for a meeting of the SA leadership. The NSDAP later owned the building and probably was already renting offices there. There is also very little information available about National Socialist activities within the company. It certainly had its National Socialist factory cell organization (NSBO), as did many other leading insurance companies and banks in Berlin and elsewhere. Thus, the National Socialist Angriff reported in December 1930 that the factory cell had held its monthly meeting at which a Party comrade (Pg.) Pfister gave a “convincing” talk on the financial program of the Party that allegedly resulted in new memberships.