ABSTRACT
The First Czechoslovak Republic was created on 28 October 1918 in the face of determined Austrian opposition. Three case studies of different types of Czechoslovak company reveal how far the policy of 'nostrification' succeeded. Czechoslovak citizenship was granted on the basis of birth, residence and ownership of property, but it was not compulsory to be a Czechoslovak citizen in order to live in Czechoslovakia. Without this survey, it would have been impossible to formulate any policy, since the only data that had already been collected was in Vienna. After the Oderberge Chemische Werke had been established, it had applied to the Viennese cartel office for an official saccharine cartel price. The main feature of this company is the way that the directors were able to draw on a wide variety of contacts in the Viennese Jewish community for capital, ideas and entrepreneurial expertise.
