Ivan program
The Iwan program was the name of a program for the restarting of the Soviet heavy industry plants in Ukraine that were occupied during the German advance in the Soviet Union during the Second World War .
The program was started in mid-May 1942 by decision of the Armaments Minister Albert Speer . Edmund Geilenberg was entrusted with its implementation . As part of this program, all smelting works and associated companies in the Donets Basin and Dnieper bend should be put back into operation as soon as possible in order to be able to produce armaments close to the front, especially grenades for the Wehrmacht . German private companies in the coal and steel industry were involved to a considerable extent as part of the program. The Flick Group set up Dnjepr Stahl GmbH within a very short time , which took over a large number of former Soviet mining combines. In addition to Flick, other large German companies were also involved in the program:
- Klöckner (Konstantinovka ironworks)
- Hoesch ( steel works Krivoy Rog )
- Friedrich Krupp AG (New Kramatorsk Machine Works, Azov Steel 1 smelter and Azov Stahl 2 smelter, Kuibyshev pipe works, Taganrog Mannensmann pipe works)
- Mannesmann (Taganrog ironworks)
- Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH) (steel works Kramatorsk, old machine works Kramatorsk)
- United Steelworks (Stalinsky Plant, Ordshenikidze Plant, Drushkowka Plant)
The program came to an end with the German withdrawal in 1943. During the retreat, a significant part of the operations that had been set up shortly before were dismantled and the parts that could not be dismantled were made unusable by targeted explosions. The program’s production goals were never fully achieved at any point in its brief existence.
literature
- ↑ Norbert Frei : Flick: The company, the family, the power . Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 3-89667-400-5 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ http://www.ifz-muenchen.de/heftarchiv/1973_3_1_riedel.pdf
- ↑ http://www.ifz-muenchen.de/heftarchiv/1973_3_1_riedel.pdf
- ↑ a b Thomas Ramge: The Flicks. Campus Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-593-37404-8 , p. 123 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ http://www.ifz-muenchen.de/heftarchiv/1973_3_1_riedel.pdf
- ↑ http://www.ifz-muenchen.de/heftarchiv/1973_3_1_riedel.pdf
- ↑ Alexander Donges: The United Steel Works AG in National Socialism. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2014, ISBN 978-3-657-76628-4 , p. 392 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ Kim Christian Priemel: Flick - A corporate history from the German Empire to the Federal Republic . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0219-8 ( limited preview in the Google book search).