Collecting society for the coal and steel industry

The Verwertungsgesellschaft für Montanindustrie mbH , also shortened to Montan GmbH, was a German company founded in 1916 in the legal form of a limited liability company , which only acted as a shell company without any operational business . The coal and steel scheme , which described the practice of disguised state intervention by the Third Reich in the German armaments industry, was named after him.

history

The Montan GmbH was from 1922 owned by the Maxhütte , later 95% of the share capital of 4,800 Reichsmarks to the appliance and apparatus-Handelsgesellschaft mbH ( Gerap ) gave what the Army Ordnance Department was controlled (HWA), and levels of the HWA in trust held.

The Verwertungsgesellschaft für Montanindustrie mbH acted as an allegedly private landlord of industrial companies owned by the army. The tenants included B. Eibia GmbH for chemical products .

After the National Socialists came to power and their efforts to establish a strong German armaments industry, the Wehrmacht demanded greater ammunition production capacities . In order to achieve this, WASAG and Dynamit AG founded Deutsche Sprengchemie GmbH in 1934 , which, with the support of the state-owned Verwertungsgesellschaft für Montan-Industrie mbH, built new explosives and ammunition plants on state land.

From 1933 the seat of the Verwertungsgesellschaft für Montanindustrie mbH was the so-called Georgsburg in Hamburg-Hammerbrook . In October 1944 the SS set up a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp in the building .

Max Zeidelhack , Odilo Burkart and Hans Henrici , among others, were involved in the company's activities .

1951 was renamed the company in industry Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH to today IVG Immobilien AG.

Holdings

Montan was a partner in the following operating companies:

Altmark chain works (Alkett) in Berlin-Borsigwalde - 40% ( Rheinmetall - Borsig AG 60%)
Elektro- und Feinmechanische Industrie GmbH (ELFI) in Hildesheim ; founded at the end of 1937; by Bosch GmbH Robert leased in December 1942 in Trillke GmbH -Werke renamed in April 1952 as Robert Bosch GmbH, Hildesheim plant taken over by the tenant
Fasstoff- und Spinnerei Fürstenberg AG - 100% (see also Max Zeidelhack )
Feinmechanische Werke GmbH (FEIMA) in Erfurt - 100% (see also Maschinenfabrik Geipel )
Hanseatische Kettenwerk GmbH (HaK) in Hamburg-Langenhorn - 100%
Monturon GmbH in Falkenhagen (Mark) ( N-Stoff -werk) - 50%
Ostmarkwerke GmbH in Vienna - 100%
Ostmarkwerke Prag GmbH - 100%
Paltenstahlindustrie GmbH in Rottenmann (Styria) - 100%
Paraxol GmbH with four locations
Spandauer Stahlindustrie GmbH - 50%
Sprengstoffwerke Blumau AG in Felixdorf (Lower Austria) - 100%
Warschauer Vereinigte Maschinenfabriken AG - 100%

literature

Barbara Hopmann: From Montan to Industrial Management Company (IVG), 1916–1951 . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-515-06993-3 . ( limited preview of Google Books )

Individual evidence

↑ Johannes Bähr, Bernhard Gotto: The Flick Group in the Third Reich. Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58683-1 , p. 142. ( limited preview of Google books )
^ Carola Sachse (ed.), Bernhard Strebel , Jens-Christian Wagner : Forced labor for research institutions of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society 1939–1945 . Research program “History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism” , Berlin 2003 (PDF; 635 kB).

[Gotto-1] Johannes Bähr, Bernhard Gotto: The Flick Group in the Third Reich. Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58683-1 , p. 142. ( limited preview of Google books )

[2] Carola Sachse (ed.), Bernhard Strebel , Jens-Christian Wagner : Forced labor for research institutions of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society 1939–1945 . Research program “History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism” , Berlin 2003 (PDF; 635 kB).