Die Süddeutsche Zucker-AG und ihr Standort Stuttgart-Cannstatt im Nationalsozialismus. Zuckererzeugung, Nazifizierung, Zwangsarbeit, Kontinuität

Book presentation and discussion with Prof. Dr. Manfred Grieger (University of Göttingen)

Nutrition was an important component of National Socialist policy, which after 1933 and the economic upswing also aimed to prepare German society for the coming war. The food industry, and thus also Süddeutsche Zucker-AG, which was founded in 1926, played an important role in these plans. The company was well aware of this. By 1937, the Mannheim sugar group had gradually removed Jewish shareholders, board members and supervisory board members from its committees without any major resistance, thereby following the policy of the Nazi regime.

The decentralized sugar factories brought in large numbers of foreign forced labourers. German Jews, Sinti and Roma were also exploited at individual sites. The lecture also establishes links to the city's history via the Stuttgart sugar factory located in the Münster-Cannstatt district.

Manfred Grieger, born 1960, historian, member of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. From 1998 to 2016 he was Head of Historical Communication at Volkswagen AG, since 2018 Honorary Professor at the Institute for Economic and Social History in Göttingen. Publications include: Die Geschichte des Hauses Bahlsen (2024); Die Süddeutsche Zucker-AG im Nationalsozialismus (2025); Voll auf Strom. The Tyrolean electricity industry in the field of tension between politics, Nazi rule and society's hunger for energy 1919-1975 (2025)

In cooperation with the initiative Lern- und Gedenkort Hotel Silber e.V.