|
|
Nazi Germanisation and Settlement Policy in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 1942-1945
Hořejš, Miloš ; Kubů, Eduard (advisor) ; Jančík, Drahomír (referee) ; Hallon, Ľudovít (referee)
Titel of dissertation: Nazi Germanisation and Settlement Policy in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia This work focuses on land and settlement policies in the territory of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. They are treated as an integral part of a unified Germanisation policy which the Nazi regime had implemented within a broader territory of the German Reich. The aim of this study is to evaluate the structure and organisation of the settlement policy and mechanisms of its functioning on both lower and higher levels within the context of administration and implementation of the settlement process. Germanisation was, within the territory of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, one of the key aspects of German economic policy. Its implementation was based on a combination of assimilation, evacuation, and physical liquidation. In practice, Germanisation measures in the Protectorate took either of the three following forms: 1) transfer of share ownership, 2) Aryanisation of Jewish property, 3) a settlement of Germans on Czech-held land. This sequence more or less corresponded also to the sequence in which the individual measures were to be applied in practice. It was envisioned that Germanisation and settlement policy would be fully implemented and completed only after the end of the war...
|
|
|
Czech breweries 1869-1918, business strategies, carteles, sales
Pánková, Kateřina ; Kubů, Eduard (advisor) ; Jančík, Drahomír (referee)
This thesi s aims to capture the fundamental factors of developement of czech breweries in period 1869 - 1918. It analyzes three big companies, which repesent specific ways of orginazation. It analyzes especially the mechanisms of their business and financial results, technological level, organization of sales and coopearation in cartels. Cartels are discused separatly and mentioned is their importace for the developemnt of the field in the period.
|
|
|
Birth and function of foreign trade monopoly for textile goods
Roušar, Jan ; Kubů, Eduard (advisor) ; Jančík, Drahomír (referee)
This work treats of Centrotex Society in the interval from its creation in 1948 until realisation of Rozsypal's economic reform in 1958. Centrotex Society is an example of a company of a foreign trade in the era of central planned economy, which was being functional during a communist regime between 1948 and 1989. In my diploma theses I intended to explain commercial activities of Centrotex Society in this period, changes of its commercial strategy and reforms which it passed through. Centrotex Society was founded in 1948 after nationalization of foreign trade, it dealed with textile raw materials and products. In the sphere of textile raw materials it focused especially on import because in Czechoslovakia there were not (except for flax) suitable conditions for their production. On the other hand, in the sphere of textile products the primary function of Centrotex Society was their export which brought foreign currency to Czechoslovakia. The break of 1940s and 1950s could be called "an era of founding". This period is defined by searching the most suitable way of organising a foreign trade company, which meant often changes of plans and even organizational structure of the company. The situation was also complicated because of the atmosphere of stalinism. It caused that nobody was brave enough to call the...
|
|
|
Market for Construction Materials in Cisleithania and Czechoslovakia from 1873 till 1938. Formation, Trends of Development, Cartelization
Gecko, Tomáš ; Kubů, Eduard (advisor) ; Zářický, Aleš (referee) ; Jemelka, Martin (referee)
The aim of the dissertation is to understand the formation and development of the market for construction materials (cement, lime and bricks) in Cisleithania and Czechoslovakia. Emphasis is placed on market trends (changes in consumer habits, new technologies), market monopolisation, state interventionism and institutional changes in business activities (capital inputs of the banking sector and the spread of capital companies). The dissertation contentrates on the basic market conditions and market structure, as well as the strategies of the market players. The market performance (the impacts of the construction materials industry on the Cisleithanian and Czechoslovak economies) is also included. The research is limited by the period of the so-called Great Depression (construction materials began to be produced on the industrial basis) and the turn of 1938/1939, marking the instrumentalization of the Czech lands in favor of the German economy. The dissertation is based on methods of industrial economics (Structure-Conduct-Performance paradigm), economics, economic geography and traditional methodology of economic history (especially business history, hermeneutic and statistical method).
|
|
|
National administrations of the trades enterprises in Svitavy after the Second World War (Installation, their functions and end - a contribution to administration history)
Dvořák, Petr ; Kubů, Eduard (advisor) ; Šouša, Jiří (referee)
(in English): The bachelor thesis "The National Administration of Trades in Svitavy after World War II" deals with the issue of changes of ownership of trades in Svitavy in the Moravia as a consequence of retribution and transfer of most of local inhabitants, operation of their national administrations within the system of "limited economic democracy" during the time of the so-called Third Republic and successive process of their dissolution. In these particular cases through hitherto unused archive sources is researched the application of the relevant Presidential Decrees as well as subsequent regulations and directives. The subject of study is mainly the transformation of property law relations in the line of processes national administration - confiscation - (re-privatization or restitution) - nationalization. The introduction and dissolution of national administrations are interpreted in the context of the political, economic and social changes taking place in the period under consideration. An analysis of the implementation, operation, effectiveness and dissolution of national administrations demonstrates the dynamics of their development and, above all, bring the knowledge of the way and the time of their termination. The handling of confiscates is illustrated in full length. The total...
|
|
|
"Heimat in Ketten": Development of ideological construction of german borderland novel in the First Republic
Pípalová, Anna ; Kubů, Eduard (advisor) ; Štolleová, Barbora (referee)
(in English) The presented diploma thesis analyzes German borderland novels (Grenzlandroman) of the interwar period, namely Robert Hohlbaum's Grenzland (1921), Rudolf Haas' Heimat in Ketten (1924), Das Dorf an der Grenze (1936) by Bruno Nowak, writing under the pseudonym Gottfried Rothacker, and Die Brüder Tommahans (1937) by Wilhelm Pleyer. As a literary genre, the borderland novel took conflict between nations as its central theme, while addressing contemporary or recent social evolution. German borderland novels from interwar Czechoslovakia give evidence of how not only the authors but also the whole social groups reflected societal changes in the aftermath of 1918. An analysis of the narratives typical of this segment of literature confirms its relevance to the formation of the German population's identity in interwar Czechoslovakia. Stereotyping mechanisms play a crucial role in instilling abstract notions of nationality in the everyday perception of ordinary people. The borderland novels' narrative practices contribute to the reconstruction and fixation of this stereotypical perception of reality. This perception not only affects the way individuals and social groups view their surrroundings, but also interferes with the interpretation of events. Analysis of the selected texts enables us to...
|
|
|
Prof. JUDr. Cyril Horáček, politician and economist
Smutný, Zdeněk ; Kubů, Eduard (advisor) ; Jančík, Drahomír (referee)
7 The present work deals is a biography of Professor JUDr. Cyril Horacek, who was a prominent national economist, educator and politician during the turn of the century and especially in the first third of the 20th century. It examines his life stories and personal development with an emphasis on his career economist, educator and policy with regard to his private activities and interests. In several chapters, especially those concerning economics, he puts his expert view and work into the context of that time economic thinking and compares them with the work and ideas of others Czech national economists of that time.
|
|
|
From the Wold of Business to the World of Planned Distribution. A Look into Development of Czech Consumer Cooperatives: 1945-1956 (Ústí nad Labem Region)
Slavíček, Jan ; Kubů, Eduard (advisor) ; Jančík, Drahomír (referee) ; Kocian, Jiří (referee)
From the Wold of Business to the World of Planned Distribution A Look into the Development of Czech Consumer Cooperatives: 1945 - 1956 (Ústí nad Labem Region) The dissertation deals with changes in the content, forms and roles of the Czech consumer co- operatives in the years 1945 - 1956. This issue is a theme in four surveyed areas (territorially - organizational structure, the role of co-operatives in the Czechoslovak economy, relations with the Communist Party, economic activity of co-operatives). These are prerequisites of the transformation of consumer cooperatives from autonomous business entities in the subordinate sections of the state-organized distribution. The dissertation analyzes this transformation in its various stages and puts it into a broader context of Sovietisation, creation of a system of centrally planned economy and the economic, social and political development of Czechoslovakia during the researched period. Keywords: economic history, co-operatives, consumer co-operatives, Sovietisation, centrally planned economy, 1945-1956
|
|
|
The Emergence of Cartels in the Czech Lands Hop Production, 1890-38
Pojar, Vojtěch ; Kubů, Eduard (advisor) ; Šouša, Jiří (referee)
In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Czech lands were among the largest hop-growing regions in the world. Hop products became, in the interwar period, one of the crucial agricultural export goods of the Czechoslovak economy. This study aims to draw attention to the process of emergence of cartels in this particular branch of agricultural production. It traces the attempts to organize the industry by means of cartels from their very beginning in the late 19th century until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1938. As a point of departure, it takes the assumption shared by many theoreticians of industrial organization who argue that the given structure of the industry to some extent pre-determines the ways how the cartels emerge and the particular forms they assume. These institutions, however, might in turn reshape the structure of the industry. The analysis indicates that the cartels in the hop industry were essentially 'children of opportunity' and their emergence was rarely correlated with an economic crisis. Even though the industry gave rise also to international collusive structures, the cartels in the hop industry were essentially unstable and weak and in most cases, the attempts to create them failed. Present study challenges the belief, widely held in the scholarship on cartels in the Czech lands,...
|
|
|
Reflection of social experience in literary works of Ota Pavel
Vrchlavský, Tomáš ; Kubů, Eduard (advisor) ; Štolleová, Barbora (referee)
Bachelor thesis called Ota Pavel's Social experience reflection in his literature creation is about the personality and literature of Czech-jewish writer Ota Pavel. The goal of this thesis is to describe the picture of the social experience in a way how it was literary described by the Ota Pavel. In my thesis I observe following aspects. How it is the stance of the Jews to the major society reflected and vice versa. Further more on the example of the father of the Ota Pavel I follow up the relation of his family to the Czechoslovakia. I also describe an economy situation of the Ota Pavel and his family beginning with the first republic, following with the World War II, transitional period 1945-1948 up to the period of communism regime. Next part is about Ota Pavel's and his family experience with occupation power and anti-Semitic precaution during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. I also describe the Jew problematic in postwar Czechoslovakia in a way how the Ota Pavel reflected it based on his experience in his commemorative stories.
|
guest ::
