The Adolf-Hitler-Spende (from 1933) - the ad-hoc collection turned into a standing levy
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The one-off whip-round of February 1933 became a standing charge on German business once there was a state powerful enough to make it one.
Who they are
German industry and the new government, through a fund named after Hitler himself.
What they do
Shortly after the March 1933 election the regime set up the Adolf Hitler Fund of German Trade and Industry, a levy on business that became a major permanent source of party money.
How it works
This page is thin and says so. The founding document, the date, the rates and the sector totals were all marked unexamined in the research that came back, and the one per-firm figure offered carried no quotation behind it, so none of it is stated here.
Why it matters
The distinction worth keeping is between a donation and a levy. A company that gives money to a party has chosen something. A company paying a charge to a state that now licenses its existence has not.
The engine's record — word for word
[Report #202] **In plain terms:** the one-off whip-round of February 1933 became a permanent arrangement once the state had the power to make it permanent.
Scorecard #280 listed 'the Adolf-Hitler-Spende (from 1933)' among the items documented by Report #201's research and not yet minted. This record holds it, and holds it thin.
WHAT IS CARRIED: that shortly after the March 1933 election the regime established the Adolf-Hitler-Spende der deutschen Wirtschaft (Adolf Hitler Fund of German Trade and Industry) as a levy on business, and that it became a major standing source of party funds - the institutional successor to the ad-hoc fund raised at industrialists_meeting_1933_02_20.
HELD OPEN: the founding instrument and its date, the collection mechanism, the rates, and the totals by sector. The research pass marked these NOT EXAMINED and offered one per-firm figure (over 6,000,000 RM from Krupp) sourced to a single archive.org volume without a quote; it is not minted. The structural reading - a levy on private firms by the state that now licenses them, which is a different thing from a donation - is the reason the record is worth holding even thin, but it is held, not asserted. Held; name no holder.
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