Konfiskace průmyslového majetku sudetských Němců po roce 1945 na příkladu firmy Knäbel

In my bachelor thesis I try to find out how evacuation of German minority and confiscation of property was conducted. I examine an impact of this process on the Czechoslovak economy. I also analyze the legal requirements for confiscation and nationalization of industrial property and describe the specifics, the conduct and results of industrial property confiscation in Czechoslovakia. The aim of this work is to demonstrate and evaluate critically the process of confiscation and installation of the national management between 1945 and 1947, by a case study on the example of the company Knabel et al. I want to answer by retrieval of archival sources following questions: How was the installation of national managers. How was changed the structure and prosperity of the company. My hypothesis is that the transfer of company to national managers was chaotic and managers were not able to ensure the functioning of the company in the prewar quality and scope. I try to verify the thesis that the main motivation of national managers was to enrich themselves at the expense of confiscated property.