Fried.Krupp Aktiengesellschaft, Essen : brochure cover 1935 - Zeche Hannibal, Bochum
The cover from a publicity brochure, dated 1935, and in French entitled "coup d œil d'ensemble sur l'entreprise" and that describes the massive, vertical integrated company of Fried.Krupp Aktiengesellschaft, Essen. Krupp's have a long history, dating back to 1811 in Essen where they were foremost in the industrial development of the Ruhr and indeed, now merged with Thyssen, their HQ is still in Essen, a city once regarded as a company town.
By 1935 this vast company, manufacturing iron and steel as well as armaments, machinery, locomotives, shipbuilding and vehicles, was already thoroughly enmeshed in the economy of the National Socialist state and they, along with the family members who ran the concern, would be active participants in Germany's rearmament and complicit the country's conduct of the Second World War.
The brochure was gifted to a visiting French businessman ; the rear cover shows one of the company's collieries, one of the shafts and pitheads of the large Zeche Hannibal in neighbouring Bochum. Krupp was a vertically integrated company in that it owned collieries to ensure its own supplies of coal and coke for its iron and steel works. Hannibal dated from the period 1848/54 and the complex closed in 1973. These are the headstocks of Hannibal 1.
Fried.Krupp Aktiengesellschaft, Essen : brochure cover 1935 - Zeche Hannibal, Bochum
The cover from a publicity brochure, dated 1935, and in French entitled "coup d œil d'ensemble sur l'entreprise" and that describes the massive, vertical integrated company of Fried.Krupp Aktiengesellschaft, Essen. Krupp's have a long history, dating back to 1811 in Essen where they were foremost in the industrial development of the Ruhr and indeed, now merged with Thyssen, their HQ is still in Essen, a city once regarded as a company town.
By 1935 this vast company, manufacturing iron and steel as well as armaments, machinery, locomotives, shipbuilding and vehicles, was already thoroughly enmeshed in the economy of the National Socialist state and they, along with the family members who ran the concern, would be active participants in Germany's rearmament and complicit the country's conduct of the Second World War.
The brochure was gifted to a visiting French businessman ; the rear cover shows one of the company's collieries, one of the shafts and pitheads of the large Zeche Hannibal in neighbouring Bochum. Krupp was a vertically integrated company in that it owned collieries to ensure its own supplies of coal and coke for its iron and steel works. Hannibal dated from the period 1848/54 and the complex closed in 1973. These are the headstocks of Hannibal 1.