As an intellectual, industrialist, and minister as well as the author of numerous papers and letters, Walther Rathenau was an important figure of his times in business, politics, sociology, and art. The classical phase of the modern age in which he lived continues to have reverberations today. This volume examines Rathenau's positions as well as the modes of remembrance and attribution that have accompanied him ever since his violent death.

Sven Brömsel; Patrick Küppers; Clemens Reichhold, alle Walther Rathenau Kolleg, Potsdam.