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II. Dismantling Action and German Steel Capacity 78 a. Pig !ron Capacity 78 b. Ingot Steel Capacity. 79 c. Rolling Mill Capacity. 79 d. Tube Capacity. 80 e. Capacity of Drop Forges 81 f. Wire Capacity. 81 g. High-Quality Steel Capacity 81 Part IV: Effects of Dismantlings on the Tra- portation and Building Trade 86 A Railway Traffic. 86 B Building Trade. 90 Part V: Economic Claims at the Present Stage of Dismantling. -. 94 1 A. S. = Number of American Dismantling List B. S. = Number of Brltish Dismantling List 5 PREFACE: Dismantling in Spite of the Authority for the Ruhr ("Ruhr-Kontrolle") Not long after the German edition of this pamphlet (end of November 1948) had been published, the London discussions of the Six Powers resulted 1 in the Ruhr Statute - Thc new situation arising through the creation of a Western Allied Ruhr Authority puts the old problems into the sharp relief again. There is need for an explanation of the relations between Ruhr Statute and dismantlings and so me fundamental observations are nc~essary. At present, Europe faces the problem of how a
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InhaltsangabeI: Introductory Remarks.- II: European Reconstruction - Dismantling of German Plants?.- A Morgenthau Doctrine and Marshall Plan.- B Dismantling or Economic Co-Operation?.- C Curtailing of Marshall Plan Quota as an Equivalent of a Dismantling Stop?.- D Benefits Arising from a Stop to Dismantling.- III: Ruhr Economy under the Influence of Dismantling.- A The Engineering, Economic, and Social Structure of the Ruhr District, a Compound System Reacting Sensitively to Arbitrary Interference.- B Brandies of Industry Listed for Dismantling.- I. Industries Indirectly Affected ("Secondary" Dismantling).- a. Coal Mines.- 1. The Ruhr Coal Mining Industry and Basis of its Capacity.- 2. Destruction of the Basis of Capacity by Earmarked Dismantling of Mining Supply Works.- 3. Intermediate Conclusion.- b. Coke-Oven Plants Used as a Basis for Refining Coal.- c. Power Trade.- 1. Gas Economy.- 2. Electric Power Trade.- II. Industries Directly Affected ("Primary" Dismantling).- a. Chemical Industry.- 1. General Problems of Curtailed Capacities in the Chemical Industry.- 2. Dismantling Problems and Prohibited Production in Coal Chemical, Industries.- a) Fischer - Tropsch Synthesis.- b) Hydrogenation Plants.- c) Production of Buna.- d) Dismantling of Ethylene Plants.- 3. Other Plants not Belonging to the Coal-Chemical Industry.- a) Dismantling of Oxygen Plants.- b) Dismantling of Soap Powder Plants.- 4. Intermediate Conclusions.- b. Iron and Steel Producing and Metal Working Industries.- 1. Preliminary Remarks.- 2. Large-Scale Dismantling in the Iron and Steel Sector.- a Completed or Advanced Large-Scale Dismantlings.- 1) Hüttenwerk Essen-Borbeck (B. S. 54, Metallurgical Plant).- 2) Harkort-Eicken, Edelstahlwerke GmbH ("Stahlwerk Hagen"), Wetter (B. S. 51).- 3) Bandeisenwalzwerk Dinslaken (B. S. 85, Plant for the Production of Cold and Hot Rolled Strip).- 4) Wagner & Co., Dortmund (B. S. 283, Machine Tool Builders).- 5) Ruhrstahl AG. Annener Gußstahl-Werke B. S. 58. (Steel Producing Plant, Foundry, and Forge).- b Plants Awaiting Dismantling.- 6) August Thyssen Hütte, Hamborn-Bruckhausen (B. S. 59, Plant Comprising Blast Furnaces, Steelworks, and Rolling Mills).- 7) Gusstahlfabrik Essen (B. S. 53, Cast Steel Plant).- 8) Bochumer Verein, Bochum (B. S. 10, 46, 88, 89).- 9) Henrichshütte, Hattingen (B. S. 57).- 10) Niederrheinische Hütte, Duisburg - Hochfeld; (B. S. 60).- 11) Hüttenwerk Hoerde (Metallurgical Plant Hoerde), formerly Dortmund-Hoerder Hüttenverein (B, S. 15, 63, 94).- 12) Hoesch AG., Dortmund (B. S. 66).- 13) Röhrenwerke (Thyssen Plant at Mülheim belonging to the Rheinische Röhrenwerke AG), B. S. 93.- 14) Dismantling in the "Allied Industries" (Example: Wire).- aa) Westfälische Drahtindustrie, Hamm (B.S.117).- bb) F. Meyer, Eisen- und Stahlindustrie, Dinslaken (B. S. 109).- 15) Deutsche Edelstahlwerke, Krefeld (B. S. 48).- 16) Dismantling. of Metal-Working Plants on the Periphery of the Ruhr.- C Steel Capacity and the Dismantling of Steel Works.- I. Introduction.- II. Dismantling Action and German Steel Capacity.- a. Pig Iron Capacity.- b. Ingot Steel Capacity.- c. Rolling Mill Capacity.- d. Tube Capacity.- e. Capacity of Drop Forges.- f. Wire Capacity.- g. High-Quality Steel Capacity.- IV: Effects of Dismantlings on the Transportation and Building Trade.- A Railway Traffic.- B Building Trade.- V: Economic Claims at the Present Stage of Dismantling.