Sudetenland mining company
The Sudetenländische Bergbau AG , shortly SUBAG was a lignite -Bergwerksgesellschaft in the Reich District of Sudetenland . The company was owned by the German state-owned Reichswerke Hermann Göring . The company headquarters was in Brüx .
history
The company was founded on June 10, 1939. From 1940, in connection with the Aryanization, it took over the majority of the lignite mines in the North Bohemian Basin near Komotau , Brüx and Dux and in the Falkenau Basin near Falkenau and Karlsbad .
After the Second World War , the company actually came into the ownership of the re-established Czechoslovakia . On August 15, 1945 the company received the new Czech company name Severočeské hnědouhelné doly (North Bohemian Lignite Works ).
By decree No. 100/45 of the Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš of October 24, 1945, the company was nationalized on January 1, 1946 and has since then been known as Severočeské hnědouhelné doly Most (SHD).
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Sudetenländische Bergbau AG in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .