Ross, A. (2025) Ludwig Noé, shipping and the economic opportunities of international zones after the First World War. Contemporary European History. ISSN 0960-7773
Abstract
In 1920, the League of Nations implemented the first modern international zones in Europe. While historians have largely presented international zones as unworkable peace-making solutions devoid of resident support, this article draws attention to those figures who saw in zones an opportunity to cash in on the end of empire. It follows the case of Ludwig Noé–a preeminent industrialist in the Free City of Danzig–who was employed to run the city’s imperial shipyard. Noé’s transformation of the Danzig shipyard into a successful international concern demonstrated the economic advantages that internationalisation could facilitate and chimed with calls to exploit the zone further by converting it into a manufacturing free port. The article contributes, therefore, to a growing literature concerned with how abstract international visions were realized locally and independently, and who, ultimately, made internationalism work in the 1920s.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Except as otherwise noted, this author-accepted version of a journal article published in Contemporary European History is made available via the University of Sheffield Research Publications and Copyright Policy under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | League of Nations; peacekeeping; international zone; shipping; free port; Gdańsk |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AH/W002981/2 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Feb 2025 13:06 |
Last Modified: | 29 May 2025 14:42 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0960777325000219 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:223327 |