Factory leader

thumb|Betriebsführer in a German Labour Front organigram

'''Factory leader''' (''{{langx|de|Betriebsführer}}'')<ref>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.</ref> was a term introduced by the Labour organization law of 20 January 1934<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hours of work provisions under the national industrial recovery act 1934 |url=https://labordoc.ilo.org/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=41ILO_INST:41ILO_V1&tab=Everything&docid=alma99507493402676&lang=en&context=L&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&query=sub,exact,automation,AND&mode=advanced&offset=20 |access-date=2017-06-08 |website=labordoc.ilo.org |language=en}}</ref> for the owner, entrepreneur or manager of a business or company. Factory leaders and their “followers” (''{{lang|de|Gefolgschaft}}'') formed the “factory community” (''{{lang|de|Betriebsgemeinschaft}}''), replicating the national community (''{{lang|de|Volksgemeinschaft}}'') in accordance with the leader principle (''{{lang|de|Führerprinzip}}''). The term was also applied to owners and tenants of farms.<ref>Cornelia Schmitz-Berning (2000): ''Volkabular des Nationalsozialismus'', s.v. ''Betriebsführer'', Berlin:de Gruyter, {{ISBN|3-11-016888-X}}, pp.95f. </ref>

==See also== *German labour law *UK labour law

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Category:Economy of Nazi Germany

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