factory community

{{Short description|Business structure of Nazi Germany}}

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A community of factory workers or a business community ({{langx|de|Betriebsgemeinschaft}}) comprised the owner, management and work force in businesses and companies in Nazi Germany in accordance with the leader principle ({{lang|de|Führerprinzip}}). The owner/manager was called “main leader” while the employees were considered to be followers ({{lang|de|Gefolgschaft}}). In order to promote a climate of mutual trust and understanding a Council of Trust had to be established under the Labour organization law. This council was elected from a list of candidates set up by the main leader for the factory workers or business community and the German Labour Front overseer ({{lang|de|Betriebsobmann}}). In accordance with Nazi ideology, foreigners and members of minorities considered unworthy of trust, could not be part of the factory community.Labour organization law, cited in: Tim Mason (1993): Social Policy in the Third Reich. The Working Class and the ‘national community’. Translated by John Broadwin, Berg: Oxford, New York, {{ISBN|0-85496-410-X}}, pp.103f.Cornelia Schmitz-Berning (2000): Volkabular des Nationalsozialismus, s.v. Betriebsgemeinschaft, Berlin:de Gruyter, {{ISBN|3-11-016888-X}}, pp.96f.