From beacon of hope to scapegoat. The Trust Agency between economic expectations and political constraints (1989-1991)

从希望的灯塔到替罪羊。

• 批准号: 286641648
• 负责人: Dr. Andreas Malycha
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Forschungsabteilung Berlin
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-31 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/286641648?language=en
• 关键词: beacon; hope; scapegoat.; Trust; Agency

The objective of the study is to conduct an empirical analysis of the origins, working methods and significance of the Trust Agency (Treuhandanstalt, THA), which will allow the historicisation of an institution that remains controversial to this day. The study addresses the expectations and economic-political ideas that were connected with the foundation of the Trust Agency, casts an analytical glance at the interior life of an institution that was charged with organising the privatisation of the state-controlled collectives and operations of the GDR, and gauges the scope for action and the predicament of the THA in the political force field that existed between the two Germanys. The analysis of the scope for action of the THA produces a differentiated picture of this central authority in its political, social and economic context. Thus this study makes a genuine contribution to research into the historical phase of upheaval between dictatorship and democracy, and analyses the transition from a Soviet-style centrally-organised economy to a social market economy. The study therefore aims to contribute to the economic history of the post-Socialist reconstruction of society 1989-1991, and at the same time initiate an academic discussion about the historical position of the THA. The history of the THA is examined primarily at the institutional and personal levels, concentrating on its origins and process of professionalization. Accordingly, the period of analysis ranges from autumn 1989, when the THA was created during Hans Modrows and Lothar de Maizieres terms in government, through the phase of the restructuring and reorientation of the THA after the economic, currency and social union under Detlev K. Rohwedder, to the beginning of Birgit Breuels term in office in April 1991. The study analyses the organisations profile, the working methods and the personnel structure of the THA. At its core is the institutional transformation of the THA after its foundation on 1 March 1990. The focus of the personnel policy was determined in the context of the substantial reorientation of the THA after July 1990. Of particular interest here are the initiatives by Rohwedder to recruit qualified staff, which were very successful after September 1990, compared to the foundation phase.Due to a lack of access to sources, but also in light of contrary political interpretations and media-effective attributions, there has been very little research into the history of the Trust Agency, 25 years after its foundation. This intended analysis of the initial phase from 1989 until 1991 serves as an entry to historical research on the THA.

这项研究的目的是对信托机构（Treuhandanstalt，THA）的起源，工作方法和意义进行实证分析，这将使一个至今仍有争议的机构历史化。该研究解决了与信托机构的基础相关的期望和经济政治思想，对负责组织国家控制的集体和民主德国运营的私有化的机构的内部生活进行了分析，并评估了THA在两德之间存在的政治力量领域的行动范围和困境。对临屋区行动范围的分析，显示出这一中央权力机构在其政治、社会和经济背景下的不同情况。因此，本研究对研究独裁与民主之间的剧变的历史阶段做出了真正的贡献，并分析了从苏联式的中央组织经济向社会市场经济的过渡。因此，本研究旨在为1989-1991年后社会主义社会重建的经济史做出贡献，同时发起关于THA历史地位的学术讨论。THA的历史主要在机构和个人层面进行审查，集中在其起源和专业化过程。因此，分析的时间范围从1989年秋季开始，当时THA是在汉斯·莫德罗斯和洛塔尔·德迈齐埃的政府任期内创建的，一直到THA在德特勒夫·K领导下的经济、货币和社会联盟之后的重组和重新定位阶段。Rohwedder，到1991年4月Birgit Breuels任期开始。研究分析临屋署的组织架构、工作方法及人员架构。其核心是临屋区在1990年3月1日成立后的体制改革。人事政策的重点，是在一九九零年七月后临屋区大幅调整方向的背景下决定的。特别令人感兴趣的是Rohwedder在1990年9月之后招募合格工作人员的举措，与成立阶段相比，这一举措非常成功，由于缺乏来源，而且由于相反的政治解释和媒体的有效归因，在信托机构成立25年后，对信托机构的历史研究很少。本文拟对1989年至1991年的初期阶段进行分析，作为临屋区历史研究的一个切入点。