Dnieper steel

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The Dnjepr Stahl GmbH was a large company in the coal and steel industry in the German occupied territories of the Soviet Union during the Second World War . This company was founded as a sponsor company as part of the Iwan program . The name of the company refers to the Dnieper river .

history

Dnjepr Stahl GmbH was founded on January 14, 1943. Its 50% shareholders were Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke AG (then a subsidiary of the Flick Group ) and Stahlwerke Braunschweig GmbH (then a subsidiary of Reichswerke Hermann Göring ). The share capital was 50,000 Reichsmarks (RM). The Flick Group took over the leadership role in the newly founded company. Flick confidante Herbert Monden became technical director .

Several large-scale combines and other operational parts of the former Soviet heavy industry in Ukraine were assigned to the new company as a sponsored company . However, ownership of this company remained with the Reich's own Berg- und Hüttenwerkgesellschaft Ost mbH

The following large companies were leased to Dnieper Stahl GmbH for operation:

  • Röhrenwerk Komintern 1 (renamed Nordmarkhütte )
  • Röhrenwerk Komintern 2 (renamed to Anhaltwerk )
  • Comintern 3 pipe works (renamed Lothringerhütte )
  • Kamenskoje Ironworks (renamed Kurmarkhütte )
  • Petrowski Hüttenwerke (renamed Preussenhütte )
  • DSMO plant (renamed Frankenwerk )
  • Rolling mill Lenin (renamed Elbewerk )
  • Rolling mill Karl Liebknecht (renamed Donauhütte )

The incorporated Soviet companies together had around 100,000 employees before the German invasion and produced 2.8 million tons of crude steel in the year before the war.

literature

  • Johannes Bähr, Axel Drecoll, Bernhard Gotto, Kim Christian Priemel, Harald Wixforth: The Flick Group in the Third Reich: Published by the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin on behalf of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation . Walter de Gruyter, 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-70856-1 , p. 427 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Kim Christian Priemel: Flick (=  Modern Time . Band 17 ). 2nd Edition. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-2091-8 , p. 465 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Norbert Frei, Ralf Ahrens, Jörg Osterloh, Tim Schanetzky : Flick: The group, the family, the power . Karl Blessing Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-641-02794-0 , p. 335 ( limited preview in Google Book search).