Did technical managers have to join the Nazi party?
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This was true of government, not so much of technical managers. However it is likely that a technical manager would have been a Party member because technocrat types tended to be attracted to the NSDAP because of its ideology of applying "science" to society and government, and its willingness to give power to "experts" to formulate and implement policies. (Sources: Jeffrey Herf, "Reactionary Modernism", Goetz Aly, "Vordenker der Vernichtung")
Because it was helpful to a career to be a Nazi Party member, it was also something the party guarded against. They meant it to be a privilege. Hence never more than 10% of the population were party members, and that only at the very end when they had to spread the joy widely in order to keep the younger adult population engaged in the war effort.
Between the years 1933 and 1937 it was not even possible to join the NSDAP if you were eligible as of 1933, which most adults were. Only on November 5, 1937 did they admit those who had applied in the gold rush of late 1933 when it became obvious that the Nazis were going to stay in power for a while. (Source: Michael Burleigh, Third Reich; Richard Evans, The Third Reich in Power)
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No--in fact, many people even near the top of the hierarchy, such as Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Amt Ausland/Abwehr secret intelligence service, never joined the Party at all. Same with those who weren't military, such as Ernst Heinkel, who was one of the Third Reich's most famous aircraft manufacturers and designers.
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I've never heard of any such requirement, and I guess it would have been listed in one of the many books I've read about the era (including German ones from WW2 and the 1930s).
I doubt it would even be needed to set such a requirement. The Partei was extremely popular, especially among the well educated, and seeing more government contracts coming the way of competitors who were Partei members would be enough incentive to persuade the rest (and seeing totalitarian regimes through the decades it is the norm to send contracts the way of your supporters, so it's no great leap to assume the Nazis did the same).
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