Fried.Krupp Aktiengesellschaft, Essen, 1935 : Blast Furnaces at Essen - Borbeck
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 ; this plate shows the enormity of a series at the company's plant at Essen - Borbeck. This complex formed an important part of the production iron and steel for the company. After significant war damage the plant was dismantled in post-war years as part of the short lived de-industrialisation programme persued by the Allies.
Fried.Krupp Aktiengesellschaft, Essen, 1935 : Blast Furnaces at Essen - Borbeck
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 ; this plate shows the enormity of a series at the company's plant at Essen - Borbeck. This complex formed an important part of the production iron and steel for the company. After significant war damage the plant was dismantled in post-war years as part of the short lived de-industrialisation programme persued by the Allies.