Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG, Düsseldorf, 1930 - main works

A beautifully produced "Allegemeiner Führer" or General Guide to the United Steelworks published in 1930. Printed at their own Press the cover and title pages exhibit a very modern and contemporary approach to the typography and design.

 

Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG had been formed in 1926 to create a major industrial conglomeration of German coal, iron and steel producers and it included some famous concerns such as Thyssen AG, Phoenix AG für Bergbau und Hüttenbetrieb, Rheinische Stahlwerke, Rhein-Elbe-Union GmbH, Deutsch-Luxemburgische Bergwerks- und Hütten-AG, Bochumer Verein, and the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG. Several equally famous companies declined to join, most notably Krupps, Hoescht and Mannesmann. In the post-war years the concern was broken up with several of the older concerns reappearing.

 

Here several aerial views of some of the company's largest concerns appear.

 

Hüttenwerk vor 50 jahren,

Hütte Vulkan in Duisburg,

Dortmunder Union Verwaltungsgebäude,

Bochumer Verein,

Dortmunder Union,

August Thyssen-Hütte Hamborn.

 

Smelting works 50 years ago,

Hütte Vulkan in Duisburg,

Dortmund Union administration building,

Bochum Association,

Dortmund Union,

August Thyssen Hütte Hamborn.

Done