Gottfried Feder Quotes

Gottfried Feder was a German civil engineer, a self-taught economist and one of the early key members of the Nazi Party. He was their economic theoretician. It was one of his lectures, delivered in 1919, that drew Hitler into the party. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. January 1883 – 24. September 1941
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Famous Gottfried Feder Quotes

“Usury and racketeering, as well as ruthless enrichment at the cost and harm of the people, will be punished with death.”

Source: The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation (1923), p. 54

“Nationalisation of the Reichsbank Pub. Ltd. Co., and the central banks.”

Source: The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation (1923), p. 54

Gottfried Feder Quotes about people

Gottfried Feder Quotes about money

“The only cure, the radical means to heal suffering humanity is the abolition of enslavement to interest on money.”

"Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money" (1919)

Gottfried Feder Quotes

“The introduction of a year of compulsory work for every German.”

Source: The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation (1923), p. 54

“Therefore we demand as a fundamental law of the state: …”

The obligation for interest is replaced by the obligation to repay the principal; thus after 20 or 25 years, depending on the interest-rate, the lent capital is repaid and the debt retired. ...
Through intensive enlightenment of the people, it is to be made clear to the people that money is and should be nothing other than a voucher for completed labor; that while every highly developed economy of course has need of money as a medium of exchange, the function of money also ends with that, and in no case should money be lent a supramundane power to grow of itself by means of interest, at the expense of productive labor.
"Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money" (1919)

“Suppression of all harmful influences in literature and the press, stage, art and cinema.”

Source: The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation (1923), p. 56

“All state revenues flowing from direct and indirect sources pour constantly into the pockets of big loan-capital.”

"Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money" (1919)

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