Reborn Xiangjiang Tycoon Growth

Everyone knows that among these people, Bao Zixuan is the most difficult person. He wants to exchange soil for German industrial equipment. This is very difficult. He may be regarded as a fool by others, and he may cause trouble if he is not careful.

Make a big joke.

However, Bao Zixuan knew that the only way to resolve this matter was by himself. Others did not understand the value of rare earths, and he would never be able to bear the price of rare earths.

Bao Zixuan also understood that it was impossible to achieve his goal with one German steel company. So he set his target on three German companies. They are Rheinmetall, Thyssen and Krupp, the three most important heavy industries in Germany.

enterprise.

Thyssen and Krupp currently belong to two different companies and have not merged yet. However, they have many private exchanges and can be said to have a very good relationship.

This time, Oliver Lehard from Rheinmetall called the heads of the other two companies to negotiate. I don’t know why, but every time Bao Zixuan comes to Germany, he wants to take advantage of Rheinmetall. This time

It was no exception. It seemed that Rheinmetall owed him money in his previous life, and he had to repay it in this life.

August Thyssen made his fortune in the steel industry at the end of the 19th century and was known as the "King of the Ruhr." Fritz Thyssen, a German monopoly capitalist, inherited his father's industry in 1926 and merged seven companies into Europe's largest

United Steel Company, serving as president.

He has funded the Communist Party since the early 1920s and officially joined the party in 1931. Since then, he has actively arranged and organized German industrial giants to financially support the Communist Party and support the Communist Party politically, which played a huge role in Hitler's rise to power in 1933. **

After the party took power

, was a member of the Friends of Himmler and an adviser to the Prussian state government. In the late 1930s, he had disagreements with Hitler. He fled to Switzerland in 1939. He immigrated to France the next year. In 1941, he was arrested by the French Vichy government, extradited to Germany, and put into prison

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Zhongying. After the war, he was interrogated by the German Decriminalization Court and ordered to hand over 15% of his property as a compensation fund for victims of rape. He moved to Argentina in 1950 and is the author. His company is now a Fortune 500 company.

One of ThyssenKrupp AG.

The current president of Thyssen AG is Rehagel Thyssen, the grandson of Fritz Thyssen. He is 50 years old this year, which can be said to be the golden age of an entrepreneur.

In 1812, Alfred Krupp Sr. was born into a Jewish family in Essen. The cannons he produced enabled Bismarck to defeat Austria and France in the mid-19th century. Alfred Jr.'s mother Bertha was

The marriage of Bertha, the granddaughter of Alfred Sr., was personally arranged by Kaiser Wilhelm II. He asked the diplomat Gustav to marry Bertha and add "Krupp" to his surname in order to run this prominent business.

Family business to prevent it from falling into the hands of political opponents.

The Krupp family has always been the pillar of the German Communist Party and is favored by the country's highest authorities. It is the tradition of this family to abide by time, obey discipline, and execute orders. Taking meal times as an example, breakfast is at 7:15 and 7:00.

People who arrive at 16 minutes will find that the restaurant is closed and others are open.

In addition, even in the dead of winter, Gustav Krupp refused to turn on the fireplace and deliberately made the office chilly to avoid becoming listless. Alfred grew up in such an environment.

The older one. He has been specially cultivated by his parents since he was a child and has the right to dine with them.

Germany's defeat in World War I was the first pain he experienced in life: the Kaiser bid farewell to Essen, the Allies came to demolish the factory, his father was declared a war criminal, the Weimar Republic was established, the workers revolted and occupied Essen, and the French occupied Lu

These mental insults in Erzhi's childhood became the reason why he would become unswervingly loyal to Hitler in the future.

After the war, the Krupp family was still focused on developing their family business. They established new companies, built new factories, and bought new coal mines. Their products were mainly sold to the Soviet Union. Soon, at the request of the German General Staff, the Krupp family secretly participated in

Germany's rearmament saw the production of its first armored vehicles in 1926, and production of artillery resumed two years later.

At this time, Alfred Krupp Jr. had grown up. As the eldest son, he had all the rights of the family heir. In Hugel's villa, he lived alone on the first floor, with five servants around him. He studied at the university

Physics and chemistry, and interned at the Dresdner Bank.

In 1930, he joined the German Communist Party and became a member of the SS the next year. He regarded Hitler as the main figure to clear up the humiliation of 1918 and revive Germany. On October 1, 1936, the 29-year-old Krupp was officially

Appointed as deputy manager in charge of rearmament. In 1939 he succeeded his father at the helm of the Krupp Empire, and the era of Alfred Krupp began.

In the following five years, he devoted himself to playing the role of the Third Reich's armorer. At the beginning of the war, he built another small building near Hugel's villa, surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by armed sentries. Every day

At 9 o'clock in the morning, he arrived here by car and worked until late at night. A portrait of Hitler hung in the office, with the words "With the Führer until victory!" written underneath. He worked alone inside, drinking whiskey and smoking at night.

Camel brand cigarettes. He only had servants and no friends to accompany him. If he was not working here, he would travel around Germany-occupied France, Ukraine, Poland, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia and other places. He favored the confiscation of industrial and mining enterprises in occupied countries, so he controlled

Many mines, blast furnaces. By 1943, the Krupp Empire directly or indirectly employed 200,000 people, manufacturing cannons, armored vehicles, tanks, submarines and various small arms for the German army.

After the war began, the German workers at the Krupp factory went to the front line, and they were replaced by prisoners of war from various European countries, including 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war. From 1943, Krupp began to use a large number of exiled

Jews built factories near the concentration camps. At the end of the war, there were as many as 100,000 "Krupp slaves". These people

The situation was miserable. In Essen, they were beaten with steel whips to go to work. Even if Allied planes came to bomb, they could not leave the factory. In the subsequent Nuremberg trial, Krupp confessed to this, and he also

He brazenly told his interrogator: "In the huge inheritance of the Krupp family, this cell belongs to me."

He was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 1948 on charges of "anti-humanity, plundering occupied areas and conspiracy against peace", and his factory was taken over by the British army.

After the Cold War began, the United States and Britain wanted to rearm Germany and "make it a new sword." Krupp therefore became a beneficiary of this new "realpolitik." On January 31, 1951, Krupp

He was released along with 60 other prisoners. He had been in prison for less than 4 years.

As soon as he returned to Essen, he reorganized the family business. In October 1952, he signed an agreement with the occupation authorities to resolve the fate of Krupp. All of his heavy industry, mining and steel production enterprises were transferred to one company.

It was responsible for the sale; Krupp retained its equity interests in the shipbuilding, truck manufacturing and locomotive manufacturing sectors; as compensation for the transfer of its property rights, Krupp received a compensation of 250 million francs.

Within 10 years, the Krupp Empire re-emerged. By the early 1960s, it had as many as 110,000 employees and an annual turnover of US$1.5 billion, making it one of the top ten companies in Europe. Its business scope included shipbuilding, complete sets of equipment,

Bridge construction, chemicals, textiles, plastics, water treatment, oil refining and nuclear reactors.

Although Andert Krupp was unwilling to inherit the family business, he was good friends with Oliver Lehard. Hearing that Heiyun Bao Zixuan wanted to negotiate with several German industrial giants, out of concern for this young man

Out of curiosity, he came to the negotiation site. Although he didn't care about any specific matters in the company, his surname had already determined his fate, and he couldn't just ignore everything.