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Reichswerke Hermann Göring was an industrial conglomerate in Nazi Germany from 1937 until 1945. It was established to extract and process domestic iron ores from Salzgitter that were deemed uneconomical by the privately held steel mills.
In July 1937, the Reichswerke Hermann Göring was established under state ownership – though led by Göring – with the aim of boosting steel production beyond the level which private enterprise could economically provide.
Jan 12, 2000 · Hermann Göring is known for being one of the primary architects of the Third Reich Nazi police state (1933–45) in Germany. He established the Gestapo secret political police and concentration camps for the “corrective treatment” of difficult opponents.
- Hermann Göring was a leader of the Nazi Party and one of the primary architects of the Nazi police state (1933–45) known as the Third Reich in Germ...
- Hermann Göring was born in Rosenheim, Bavaria, in Germany and was brought up near Nürnberg, in the small castle of Veldenstein.
- Hermann Göring committed suicide by ingesting poison on October 15, 1946, after the International Military Tribunal at Nürnberg had condemned him t...
- He was born into an aristocratic family. Hermann Göring was born on 12 January 1893 to Heinrich Göring, a diplomatic consul to German South-West Africa (now Namibia), and his second wife Franziska Tiefenbrunn.
- He was a fighter pilot in the First World War. After a childhood of military interests, and an education at military academy, Göring entered the German Army as an infantry lieutenant in 1912.
- He was wounded in the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. Göring became a member of the National Socialists in 1922 after circulating the anti-Weimar and anti-reparations scene.
- He was Commander in Chief of the Luftwaffe. On 1 March 1935 Göring took on the leadership of the Luftwaffe. Without the knowledge or strategic understanding necessary, he overestimated the German force’s potential, and underestimated that of his enemies.
One example of this was the creation of the company Reichswerke Hermann Göring-Werke in 1937 to process low grade steel ore, deemed uneconomic by private companies. Historians such as Alan Milward support this view.
The chief instrument for industrial exploitation was the state holding company, the Reichswerke ‘Hermann Göring’, first set up in the summer of 1937 to exploit Germany's low-grade domestic iron ores.
Reichswerke Hermann Göring was an industrial conglomerate in Nazi Germany from 1937 until 1945. It was established to extract and process domestic iron ores from Salzgitter that were deemed uneconomical by the privately held steel mills.
