Ralf Banken
Biographic Data
| ID | 1149841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralf Banken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralf |
| FAMILY NAME | Banken |
| SIGNATURE | BANKEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Helge Wendt, Kohlezeit. Eine Global- und Wissensgeschichte (1500–1900). Frankfurt am Main, Campus 2022
It Is Said That at Least 300,000 rt of Capital are Required for a Raft Trade’
Although the Dutch timber trade from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century has been the subject of many historical studies, the development of the capital-intensive timber wholesale trade has remained rather underexposed by economic historians with regard to the actors involved. This is surprising since a capital of up to 600,000 Reichstaler had to be raised for the Dutch timber trade; amounts that were hardly invested in any other commercial…
Hostile Takeovers of Large Jewish Companies, 1933-1935
Uwe Balder, Kleidung zwischen Konjunktur und Krise. Eine Branchengeschichte des deutschen Textileinzelhandels 1914 bis 1961. (Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Bd. 252.) Stuttg…
Article Uwe Balder, Kleidung zwischen Konjunktur und Krise. Eine Branchengeschichte des deutschen Textileinzelhandels 1914 bis 1961. (Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Bd. 252.) Stuttgart, Steiner 2020 was published on February 1, 2022 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 314, issue 1)
Nachruf Prof. Dr. Toni Pierenkemper (17. Oktober 1944 bis 19. Juli 2019)
Wolfgang von Hippel, Hermann Röchling 1872–1955. Ein deutscher Großindustrieller zwischen Wirtschaft und Politik. Facetten eines Lebens in bewegter Zeit. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2018
Article Wolfgang von Hippel, Hermann Röchling 1872–1955. Ein deutscher Großindustrieller zwischen Wirtschaft und Politik. Facetten eines Lebens in bewegter Zeit. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2018 was published on December 1, 2020 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 311, issue 3)
Der Ursprung der geräuschlosen Kriegsfinanzierung im „Dritten Reich“ 1935–1939
In addition to the well-known mefo bills and other types of state debts, National Socialist tax policy was also of great importance for the financing of armament before the war began. Nevertheless, the leaders of the Nazi regime could not agree on the general course of tax policy due to the already high tax burden since spring 1935. As the Reich Ministry of Finance was only able to push through a few small tax increases despite a stricter tax col…
Nichts weiter als ein großes Warenlager, welches unter dem holländischen steht“
The article investigates the economic links between the Italian trading companies Brentano, Guaita and Bolongaro, which migrated to Frankfurt on Main before 1700, and the Dutch trading centre Amsterdam. In the eighteenth century they operated branches in both cities and purchased mainly Italian goods and colonial goods from Amsterdam. However, the Amsterdam branches soon grew beyond the role of pure purchasing offices for goods for the German mar…
Introduction
Since the mid-1990s, questions about the role of private enterprises played during the ‘Third Reich’, including why – and the extent to which – they supported armament, exploitation, and crimes by the Nazis through 1945, have formed a central focus of German economic and business historiography. Numerous case studies of the most important German enterprises (including Krupp, BASF, Flick, and Degussa) have demonstrated that, despite the increasing…
Eva-Maria Roelevink, Organisierte Intransparenz. Das Kohlensyndikat und der niederländische Markt 1915-1932
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Knowledge Transfer in the Industrial Age
The question about how companies solved their existing information and knowledge problems is rarely examined for companies of the 19 th and 20 th century. Therefore the following contribution takes a closer look at the methods used by Gutehoffnungshütte in this period for obtaining the relevant information and how it ensured that the information would reach the particularly targeted employee. This case study of one of the most important pioneers …
Constructing an ‘industry’
Historically minded social scientists who analyse business and industrial development over time – including business historians – often deploy the term ‘industry’ as if its meaning were both self-evident and unchanging through time. This article uses the case of the international industrial gases industry over the course of 12 decades to demonstrate some ways in which a more critical and dynamic view of ‘industry’ – in combination with recognitio…
Die Entstehung des modernen Unternehmens
The article investigates two issues, currently widely neglected: the fact that enterprises did not become the dominant form of organisation for the production of goods and services in western economies until after 1800; and that these institutions did not play a major role in the Early Modern Age. It argues that the understanding of modern enterprises as industrial-technical organisations and the production of machinery as the sole cause for the …
The trauma of competition’
The British Oxygen Company (BOC) had a virtual monopoly on the supply of industrial gases (e.g. oxygen and acetylene) on the British market through the 1950s, when it was finally challenged by an American-based company, Air Products. Air Products Limited (APL) was able to undercut BOC's position, overcoming high barriers to entry to gain significant market share in this sector, which shares some features of network industries. Factors in this suc…
Swiss aluminium for Hitler's war? The history of the ‘Alusuisse’ 1918–1950
Entre avantages de localisation et avantages commerciaux
Fondée en 1836 à partir de la fusion entre deux entreprises de céramique sarroises, la firme Villeroy & Boch illustre l'étroitesse des relations entre des familles qui sont établies dans un même espace, celui de la Sarre, du Luxembourg et de la Lorraine septentrionale et ont pris l'habitude de coopérer à l'intérieur du grand marché résultant du rattachement de cet espace à l'Empire napoléonien. Face à la multiplication des barrières douanières, l…
No steel, no TV, and no burgers
Because of its centrality to all other industries, combined with its high levels of capital-intensity in its production and distribution networks which hinder market entry for competitors, the industrial gases industry which produces gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, and acetylene is of central importance to the industrial economy. The same characteristics make it simultaneously highly vulnerable to disruption. This article considers the causes, co…
Schneller Strukturwandel trotz institutioneller Stabilität. Die Entwicklung des deutschen Einzelhandels 1949-2000
Article Schneller Strukturwandel trotz institutioneller Stabilität. Die Entwicklung des deutschen Einzelhandels 1949-2000 was published on December 1, 2007 in the journal Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook (volume 48, issue 2)
Harold James. The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank
Die deutsche Goldreserven- und Devisenpolitik 1933-1939
Der Edelmetallsektor und die Verwertung konfiszierten jüdischen Vermögens im „Dritten Reich“. Ein Werkstattbericht über das Untersuchungsprojekt „Degussa AG“ aus dem Forschungsinstitut für Sozial- und…
Die Diffusion der Dampfmaschine in Preußen um 1830
Constructing an ‘industry’
Historically minded social scientists who analyse business and industrial development over time – including business historians – often deploy the term ‘industry’ as if its meaning were both self-evident and unchanging through time. This article uses the case of the international industrial gases industry over the course of 12 decades to demonstrate some ways in which a more critical and dynamic view of ‘industry’ – in combination with recognitio…
The trauma of competition’
The British Oxygen Company (BOC) had a virtual monopoly on the supply of industrial gases (e.g. oxygen and acetylene) on the British market through the 1950s, when it was finally challenged by an American-based company, Air Products. Air Products Limited (APL) was able to undercut BOC's position, overcoming high barriers to entry to gain significant market share in this sector, which shares some features of network industries. Factors in this suc…
Introduction
Since the mid-1990s, questions about the role of private enterprises played during the ‘Third Reich’, including why – and the extent to which – they supported armament, exploitation, and crimes by the Nazis through 1945, have formed a central focus of German economic and business historiography. Numerous case studies of the most important German enterprises (including Krupp, BASF, Flick, and Degussa) have demonstrated that, despite the increasing…
Die Diffusion der Dampfmaschine in Preußen um 1830
Der Edelmetallsektor und die Verwertung konfiszierten jüdischen Vermögens im „Dritten Reich“. Ein Werkstattbericht über das Untersuchungsprojekt „Degussa AG“ aus dem Forschungsinstitut für Sozial- und…
Die deutsche Goldreserven- und Devisenpolitik 1933-1939
Schneller Strukturwandel trotz institutioneller Stabilität. Die Entwicklung des deutschen Einzelhandels 1949-2000
Article Schneller Strukturwandel trotz institutioneller Stabilität. Die Entwicklung des deutschen Einzelhandels 1949-2000 was published on December 1, 2007 in the journal Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook (volume 48, issue 2)
Harold James. The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank
No steel, no TV, and no burgers
Because of its centrality to all other industries, combined with its high levels of capital-intensity in its production and distribution networks which hinder market entry for competitors, the industrial gases industry which produces gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, and acetylene is of central importance to the industrial economy. The same characteristics make it simultaneously highly vulnerable to disruption. This article considers the causes, co…
The trauma of competition’
The British Oxygen Company (BOC) had a virtual monopoly on the supply of industrial gases (e.g. oxygen and acetylene) on the British market through the 1950s, when it was finally challenged by an American-based company, Air Products. Air Products Limited (APL) was able to undercut BOC's position, overcoming high barriers to entry to gain significant market share in this sector, which shares some features of network industries. Factors in this suc…
Swiss aluminium for Hitler's war? The history of the ‘Alusuisse’ 1918–1950
Entre avantages de localisation et avantages commerciaux
Fondée en 1836 à partir de la fusion entre deux entreprises de céramique sarroises, la firme Villeroy & Boch illustre l'étroitesse des relations entre des familles qui sont établies dans un même espace, celui de la Sarre, du Luxembourg et de la Lorraine septentrionale et ont pris l'habitude de coopérer à l'intérieur du grand marché résultant du rattachement de cet espace à l'Empire napoléonien. Face à la multiplication des barrières douanières, l…
Die Entstehung des modernen Unternehmens
The article investigates two issues, currently widely neglected: the fact that enterprises did not become the dominant form of organisation for the production of goods and services in western economies until after 1800; and that these institutions did not play a major role in the Early Modern Age. It argues that the understanding of modern enterprises as industrial-technical organisations and the production of machinery as the sole cause for the …
Knowledge Transfer in the Industrial Age
The question about how companies solved their existing information and knowledge problems is rarely examined for companies of the 19 th and 20 th century. Therefore the following contribution takes a closer look at the methods used by Gutehoffnungshütte in this period for obtaining the relevant information and how it ensured that the information would reach the particularly targeted employee. This case study of one of the most important pioneers …
Constructing an ‘industry’
Historically minded social scientists who analyse business and industrial development over time – including business historians – often deploy the term ‘industry’ as if its meaning were both self-evident and unchanging through time. This article uses the case of the international industrial gases industry over the course of 12 decades to demonstrate some ways in which a more critical and dynamic view of ‘industry’ – in combination with recognitio…
Eva-Maria Roelevink, Organisierte Intransparenz. Das Kohlensyndikat und der niederländische Markt 1915-1932
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Nachruf Prof. Dr. Toni Pierenkemper (17. Oktober 1944 bis 19. Juli 2019)
Wolfgang von Hippel, Hermann Röchling 1872–1955. Ein deutscher Großindustrieller zwischen Wirtschaft und Politik. Facetten eines Lebens in bewegter Zeit. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2018
Article Wolfgang von Hippel, Hermann Röchling 1872–1955. Ein deutscher Großindustrieller zwischen Wirtschaft und Politik. Facetten eines Lebens in bewegter Zeit. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2018 was published on December 1, 2020 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 311, issue 3)
Der Ursprung der geräuschlosen Kriegsfinanzierung im „Dritten Reich“ 1935–1939
In addition to the well-known mefo bills and other types of state debts, National Socialist tax policy was also of great importance for the financing of armament before the war began. Nevertheless, the leaders of the Nazi regime could not agree on the general course of tax policy due to the already high tax burden since spring 1935. As the Reich Ministry of Finance was only able to push through a few small tax increases despite a stricter tax col…
Nichts weiter als ein großes Warenlager, welches unter dem holländischen steht“
The article investigates the economic links between the Italian trading companies Brentano, Guaita and Bolongaro, which migrated to Frankfurt on Main before 1700, and the Dutch trading centre Amsterdam. In the eighteenth century they operated branches in both cities and purchased mainly Italian goods and colonial goods from Amsterdam. However, the Amsterdam branches soon grew beyond the role of pure purchasing offices for goods for the German mar…
Introduction
Since the mid-1990s, questions about the role of private enterprises played during the ‘Third Reich’, including why – and the extent to which – they supported armament, exploitation, and crimes by the Nazis through 1945, have formed a central focus of German economic and business historiography. Numerous case studies of the most important German enterprises (including Krupp, BASF, Flick, and Degussa) have demonstrated that, despite the increasing…
Uwe Balder, Kleidung zwischen Konjunktur und Krise. Eine Branchengeschichte des deutschen Textileinzelhandels 1914 bis 1961. (Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Bd. 252.) Stuttg…
Article Uwe Balder, Kleidung zwischen Konjunktur und Krise. Eine Branchengeschichte des deutschen Textileinzelhandels 1914 bis 1961. (Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Bd. 252.) Stuttgart, Steiner 2020 was published on February 1, 2022 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 314, issue 1)
Helge Wendt, Kohlezeit. Eine Global- und Wissensgeschichte (1500–1900). Frankfurt am Main, Campus 2022
It Is Said That at Least 300,000 rt of Capital are Required for a Raft Trade’
Although the Dutch timber trade from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century has been the subject of many historical studies, the development of the capital-intensive timber wholesale trade has remained rather underexposed by economic historians with regard to the actors involved. This is surprising since a capital of up to 600,000 Reichstaler had to be raised for the Dutch timber trade; amounts that were hardly invested in any other commercial…
Hostile Takeovers of Large Jewish Companies, 1933-1935
Political science (13 works) · Economics (11 works) · Business (8 works) · European history and politics (8 works) · Humanities (7 works) · Economic history (6 works) · Economy (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 works)