List of the largest companies in Germany, 1907

The list of the 100 largest employers in Germany in 1907 . The list includes both private and public companies .  

rank	Surname	Employee	SIC code
1	Prussian-Hessian State Railway	486.318	22nd
2	German Reichspost	314,300	22nd
3	Prussian mine administration	94.210	2
4th	Friedrich Krupp	64,354	6th
5	Bavarian State Railway	55,295	22nd
6th	Saxon State Railways	40,000	22nd
7th	Siemens	34,324	9
8th	Reichseisenbahn Alsace-Lorraine	32,545	22nd
9	Phönix AG for mining a. Smelting operation	32,000	6th
10	Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG Rhein-Elbe	31,261	6th
11	General Electricity Company (AEG)	30,667	9
12	Harpen mining	26,317	2
13	Baden State Railways	25,709	22nd
14th	North German Lloyd	25,000	22nd
15th	United King's and Laura's Hut	24,885	6th
16	Good Hope Hut	21,657	6th
17th	Mansfeld's copper slate building weight.	21,283	2
18th	Württemberg State Railways	20,324	22nd
19th	Hibernia Mining Company	19,109	2
20th	Union of German Emperors (August Thyssen)	18,931	6th
21st	Hamburg-America Line (Hapag)	17,000	22nd
22nd	Gebrüder Stumm GmbH	17,000	6th
23	Mining company from Giesche's heirs	13,291	6th
24	de Wendel'sche Berg- u. Steel mills	12,500	2
25th	Hohenlohen-Werke Hohenlohenhütte	12,367	6th
26th	Kattowitzer AG for mining a. Smelting operation	12,218	6th
27	Bochum Association	12.173	6th
28	Felten & Guilleaume-Lahmeyer	11,848	9
29	Union for Mining Eisen- u. Steel industry	11.605	6th
30th	Upper Silesian Railway Supply Company	11,500	6th
31	German-Luxembourgish mining and Huts	11,038	6th
32	Ludwig Loewe & Co.	11,000	7th
33	United machine factory Augsburg-Nuremberg	10,908	7th
34	Big Berlin tram	10,391	22nd
35	Borsig	10,000	11
36	Alsatian mechanical engineering company	10,000	7th
37	Schlesische AG for mining and Zinc smelters	10,000	6th
38	Ferdinand Schichau GmbH	10,000	10
39	Eschweiler Mining Association	9,648	2
40	Upper Silesian iron industry	9,500	6th
41	Rheinische Stahlwerke	9,435	6th
42	Rhine Prussia Union	9,277	2
43	Iron u. Steelworks Hoesch	9,183	6th
44	Count Henckel v. Donnersmarck'sche Verw.	9.122	6th
45	Badische Anilin & Soda-Werke (BASF)	8,877	5
46	Princely Pless coal mines	8,560	2
47	Dyckerhoff & Widmann	8,400	20th
48	Donnersmarckhütte	8,000	6th
49	Henschel	8,000	11
50	North German wool combing	8,000	13
51	Röchling'sche Eisen- u. Stahlwerke GmbH	8,000	6th
52	Villeroy & Boch KG	8,000	16
53	Paint factories Bayer, Elberfeld	7,811	5
54	Mathias Stinnes, Essen	7,700	2
55	Hamburger Vulkan AG	7,600	10
56	Bismarckhütte	7,505	6th
57	Georgs-Marien-Bergwerks- und Hüttenverein	7,296	6th
58	Rombach ironworks	7.120	6th
59	Schalke Gruben- u. Hut Association	7.091	6th
60	Szczecin mechanical engineering «Vulcan»	6,748	10
61	Ewald union	6,500	2
62	Imperial shipyard Kiel	6,500	10
63	Thyssen & Co., Mülheim (Ruhr)	6,489	7th
64	Arenberg'sche AG f. Mining and Smelting operation	6,297	6th
65	Consolidation, mining company	6,000	2
66	Farbwerke Hoechst	6,000	5
67	Zollverein union	5,985	2
68	Gerresheimer Glassworks	5,800	16
69	Concordia mining	5,741	2
70	Union ver. Constantine the Great	5,583	2
71	Leopold Engelhardt & Biermann cigar factory	5,523	3
72	Ilseder Hütte (together with Peiner Walzwerk)	5,400	6th
73	German-Austrian Mannesmannröhrenwerke	5,200	6th
74	Continental Caoutchouc Company	5,185	19th
75	Union of King Ludwig	5,157	2
76	Count von Ballestrem's property administration	5,000	2
77	Graflich Schaffgotsch'sche Werke GmbH	5,000	2
78	Mülheim Mining Association	4,933	2
79	Ilse Bergbau AG	4,920	2
80	Julius Pintsch AG	4,918	7th
81	Essen coal mines	4,840	2
82	Thale ironworks	4,795	6th
83	Lothringer Hütten-Verein Aumetz-Friede	4,700	6th
84	Blohm + Voss	4,630	10
85	Breslau AG for railway wagon construction	4,600	11
86	Weight of the Neumühl coal mine	4,600	2
87	Street Railway Company in Hamburg	4,500	22nd
88	Württemberg metal goods factory	4,500	12
89	Deutsche Bank	4,439	24
90	Buderus'sche Eisenwerke	4,400	6th
91	United Rubber Goods Factory, Harburg	4,320	19th
92	Oberschles. Coke Works & Chemical Factories	4,259	2; 5
93	Graf Bismarck union	4.234	2
94	Green & Bilfinger	4,200	20th
95	Riebeck'sche Montan-Werke, Halle	4,104	5
96	Union of Frederick the Great	4,076	2
97	AG «Weser» in Bremen	4,059	10
98	AG for mining, lead u. Zinc manufacturing	4.025	6th
99	Rheinische Metallwaren- u. Machine factory	4,000	12
100	Chemical factory Griesheim-Elektron	4,000	5

The companies were classified according to the British Standard Industrial Classification of 1968. The following main categories are used: 1 Agriculture and forestry, fishing • 2 Mining and quarrying of stones and earth • 3 Food and beverages • 4 Coal and petroleum products • 5 Chemistry and related professions • 6 Metal production • 7 Mechanical engineering • 8 Appliance technology • 9 Electrical engineering • 10 shipbuilding and marine engineering • 11 vehicles • 12 other metal (metal goods not mentioned) • 13 textiles • 14 leather goods • 15 clothing and shoes • 16 bricks, pottery, glass and cement • 17 wood, furniture • 18 paper, printing and publishing • 19 Other Manufacturing • 20 Construction • 21 Gas, Electricity and Water • 22 Transportation and Communication • 23 Commerce • 24 Insurance, Banking, Finance and Business Services • 25 Professional and Scientific Services • 26 Miscellaneous Services • 27 Public Administration and Defense

literature

• Martin Fiedler, Howard Gospel: The Top 100 Largest Employers in UK and Germany in the Twentieth Century. Data (ca.1907, 1935/38, 1955/57, 1972/73, 1992/95) . In: Carsten Burhop (Ed.): Cologne Economic History Paper . No. 3 (2010). online (PDF; 444 kB)

References and comments

1. ^ Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities 1968. In: UK SIC: Archive. Central Statistical Office, 1968, accessed December 5, 2017 .