Economic Reconstruction Union

Economic Reconstruction Union

Wirtschaftliche Aufbau-Vereinigung
Economic Reconstruction Union Wirtschaftliche Aufbau-Vereinigung
Leader	Alfred Loritz
Founded	1945
Dissolved	1953
Preceded by	Reich Party of the German Middle Class (unofficial)
Ideology	Right-wing populism

The Economic Reconstruction Union (Wirtschaftliche Aufbau-Vereinigung or WAV) was a German political party that was active immediately in Allied-occupied Germany after the Second World War. Although usually translated into English as the Economic Reconstruction Union^[1]^[2]^[3] it is also sometimes known as the Union for Economic Reconstruction,^[4]^[5] the Economic Reconstruction Association,^[6]^[7] or the Economic Reconstruction Party.^[8]

^ Gilad Margalit, Guilt, Suffering, and Memory: Germany Remembers Its Dead of World War II, Indiana University Press, 2010, p. XI
^ Frank Biess, Mark Roseman, Hanna Schissler, Conflict, Catastrophe and Continuity: Essays on Modern German History, Berghahn Books, 2007, p. 227
^ David F. Patton, Out of the East: From PDS to Left Party in Unified Germany, SUNY Press, 2011, p. 17
^ Alfred Grosser, Germany in Our Time, Penguin Books, 1971, p. 252
^ Noel D. Cary, The Path to Christian Democracy: German Catholics and the Party System from Windthorst to Adenauer, Harvard University Press, 1998, p. 288
^ Cite error: The named reference guilt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Jose Raymund Canoy, The Discreet Charm of the Police State: The Landpolizei and the Transformation of Bavaria, 1945-1965, BRILL, 2007, p. 65
^ Mark S. Milosch, Modernizing Bavaria: The Politics of Franz Josef Strauss and the CSU, 1949-1969, Berghahn Books, 2006, p. xiv

[1] Gilad Margalit, Guilt, Suffering, and Memory: Germany Remembers Its Dead of World War II, Indiana University Press, 2010, p. XI

[Biess-2] Frank Biess, Mark Roseman, Hanna Schissler, Conflict, Catastrophe and Continuity: Essays on Modern German History, Berghahn Books, 2007, p. 227

[3] David F. Patton, Out of the East: From PDS to Left Party in Unified Germany, SUNY Press, 2011, p. 17

[Grosser-4] Alfred Grosser, Germany in Our Time, Penguin Books, 1971, p. 252

[5] Noel D. Cary, The Path to Christian Democracy: German Catholics and the Party System from Windthorst to Adenauer, Harvard University Press, 1998, p. 288

[guilt-6] Cite error: The named reference guilt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[7] Jose Raymund Canoy, The Discreet Charm of the Police State: The Landpolizei and the Transformation of Bavaria, 1945-1965, BRILL, 2007, p. 65

[8] Mark S. Milosch, Modernizing Bavaria: The Politics of Franz Josef Strauss and the CSU, 1949-1969, Berghahn Books, 2006, p. xiv

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