BANKA DISCONTOGESELLSCHAFT I BALKAN 1914-1918. GODINE
THE BANK DISCONTOGESELLSCHAFT AND THE BALKANS 1914-1918

Summary/Abstract: In the activity of Discontogesellschaft (DG) the wills of a big bank and the aspirations of a superpower within the frame of the programme of making the political and economic interest sphere of the German Reich were connected. At the Balkans Bulgaria was the primary object of such a programme, and through it other regions were supposed to be taken over by using the annexationist plans of Ferdinand I, Radoslavov and Tončev and Bulgarian difficult financial problems. A German big business gave the initiative (DG„ Friedrich Krupp AG, Max M. Warburg), but from the crisis in July 1914 the decisive role was taken by the Reich’s political leadership. The capital then became a means of state politics, tout it also it gained a possibility of building its aspirations into the official German war objectives.

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