Fried.Krupp Aktiengesellschaft, Essen, 1935 : Friedrich-Alfred-Hütte, Rheinhausen
Some pages 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 and describes the company's largest steel production plant the Friedrich-Alfred Hütte plant, the principal steel producing facility of the Krupp combine, that was situated on the west bank of the Rhine River at Rheinhausen, directly across the river from Duisburg at the western end of the Ruhr industrial district. The site was chosen in preference to Essen due to better transport access via the Rhine.
The first blast furnaces were constructed in 1896-8 and by 1913 there were ten in operation. The works produced many high grade specialist steels and used, as the text notes, both the Martin and Thomas conversion processes. The lower photo shows one of the rolling mills for rails and beams - hardened steel rails having been one Krupp's early specialist success stories.
Fried.Krupp Aktiengesellschaft, Essen, 1935 : Friedrich-Alfred-Hütte, Rheinhausen
Some pages 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 and describes the company's largest steel production plant the Friedrich-Alfred Hütte plant, the principal steel producing facility of the Krupp combine, that was situated on the west bank of the Rhine River at Rheinhausen, directly across the river from Duisburg at the western end of the Ruhr industrial district. The site was chosen in preference to Essen due to better transport access via the Rhine.
The first blast furnaces were constructed in 1896-8 and by 1913 there were ten in operation. The works produced many high grade specialist steels and used, as the text notes, both the Martin and Thomas conversion processes. The lower photo shows one of the rolling mills for rails and beams - hardened steel rails having been one Krupp's early specialist success stories.