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Industry & Business 20th Century

David Colbert

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Industry Early 1900’s

  • Most efficient agricultural producer in Europe

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  • Leader in European steel
    • American & Germany dominated world market

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  • Great Depression

1929 led to

Industrial

crash

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Pre-WWII

  • Nazi Rise
    • “World history teaches us that no people has become great through its economy but that a people can very well perish thereby”
        • Adolf Hitler

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  • "Reinhardt Program"
    • ‘Great Expansion’ of German construction industry

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  • 1930s automotive industry boom

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WWII

  • 1936 Military spending increased “First Army”
    • Luftwaffe

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  • Germany preparation for war

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  • 1943 full-war economy

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Post WWII

  • Struggle

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  • Ludwig Erhard

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  • Rise in Productivity
    • Marshall Plan

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Post War Boom

  • 1950 Growth Rate growth rate of industrial production was 25.0

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  • By 1960 industrial production had risen 2.5 times the level of 1950

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  • Unemployment fell from 10.3% in 1950 to 1.2% in 1960

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Latter 20th Century

  • Saw fluctuations in German economies and industry, strayed in a positive direction

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  • Reunification in 1990

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Modern Major Industries

  • Sustainable industry Revolution

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  • Automotive
    • 4th largest world producer

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  • Chemicals and Plastics
    • European Leader

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Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_BMW

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Schindler

http://www.larswindhorstpress.com/about.html

http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/germany-country-profile.html

http://www.gtai.de/GTAI/Content/EN/Invest/_SharedDocs/Downloads/GTAI/Industry-overviews/industry-overview-machinery-equipment.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_German_reunification

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Germany#20th_century

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