On 1 June 1933 the created film credit bank GmbH (FKB) served in National Socialist Germany as financing place for film projects.

The problem of the film financing was not already in the Weimar Republic well-known and the mechanism of a special film bank an idea of the National Socialist film politics, but the central organization of the Filmwirtschaft (SPIO), which the new ruling powers needed to only take up after 1933. The film credit bank represented on trust banks and other financial sources and carried in response their risk; the state did not need to supply own means. In the supervisory board of the film credit bank high representatives of the Filmwirtschaft and the major banks involved sat beside national functionaries from propaganda and Ministry of Economic Affairs. The film credit bank had on the one hand the purpose to arouse with the representatives of the film industry confidence and agreement on the other hand one it guaranteed the exclusion of politically unwanted contents and persons of the financial promotion. At first the film credit bank up to 70% of the manufacturing costs supplied, later credited it only to 30%.

Vice-president of the film credit bank was a Pressechef and undersecretary of state realm ministers of economics later in the propaganda Ministry and and realm bank president Walther radio.

After the buying up of the Ufa and by the National Socialist state the film credit bank at meaning lost.

Literature

• Gerd Albrecht, National Socialist film politics, Munich (Hanser) 1969
• Spiker, film and capital. The way of the German Filmwirtschaft to the National Socialist unit company, Berlin (Volker Spiess) 1975

Web left

• www.filmportal.de (financial security and political control: The film credit bank)

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