Walther Rathenau im Netzwerk der Moderne

The series European-Jewish Studies reflects the international network and competence of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish studies (MMZ). Particular emphasis is placed on the way in which history, the humanities and cultural sciences approach the subject, as well as on fundamental intellectual, political and religious questions that inspire Jewish life and thinking today, and have influenced it in the past.

As an intellectual, industrialist, and minister as well as the author of numerous papers and letters, Walther Rathenau was an important figure of his times in business, politics, sociology, and art. The classical phase of the modern age in which he lived continues to have reverberations today. This volume examines Rathenau s positions as well as the modes of remembrance and attribution that have accompanied him ever since his violent death.