Reichskraftsprit
| Reichskraftsprit-Gesellschaft mbH
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1925 |
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The Empire force fuel -Gesellschaft mbH ( RKS , even Rks ) was in 1925 Germany was founded society to promote the use of "alcohol" than petrol .
history
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| Brief description | Super gasoline of the 1920s and 1930s | ||||||
| origin |
mainly fossil, partly biogenic |
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| Characteristic components |
Petrol (≥ 75%), "alcohol" (≤ 25%) ("potato fuel", agricultural alcohol , bio-ethanol ) |
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| Physical state | liquid | ||||||
| Octane number |
between 56 RON and 70 RON |
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| As far as possible and customary, SI units are used. Unless otherwise noted, the data given apply to standard conditions . | |||||||
1925 founded Reich Spirits Monopoly Administration and the recovery Association of German alcohol factories , the kingdom power fuel company to the of potatoes produced agricultural alcohol (today bioethanol called) as a gasoline fuel market to support agriculture.
RKS sold its car fuel with up to 25 percent “ alcohol ” under the brand name Monopolin . The gasoline-benzene mixture with the corresponding alcohol addition was called Albizol .
In 1927, the city of Berlin signed a contract with Reichskraftsprit for the construction of public gas stations . 1927–1928 the architect Hans Poelzig designed pre-assembled prefabricated petrol stations for the Reichskraftsprit.
1930 came into force in Germany the purchase regulation for alcohol for fuel purposes for all fuel companies. 2.5 percent by weight of the amount of fuel produced or imported was to be obtained from the Reich Monopoly Administration. This quota increased gradually to 10% by October 1932.
At the end of October 1930 51% of the company shares in Reichskraftsprit went to the member companies of the Fuel Convention , above all the DAPG . The participants in the takeover undertook to use at least 20,000 tons of alcohol as an admixture for Monopolin by the end of 1934.
Since agriculture had difficulties in delivering the agreed sales quantities, IG Farben later used this to force it to add the synthetic methanol that it produces as a by-product .
In 1935 Reichskraftsprit had 365 tapping points in Germany and a market share of 4.3% in sales.
See also
literature
- Joachim Kleinmanns: Great, full! A brief cultural history of the gas station . Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2002, ISBN 3-89445-297-8 .
- Rainer Karlsch, Raymond G. Stokes: Factor Oil. The mineral oil industry in Germany 1859–1974. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50276-8 .