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The prominence of the Essen site to the overall Krupp conglomerate was diminished in the 1920s. The number of employees fell in 1926 to 25,000 people working in Essen, a third of the company's overall workforce. Weapons production resumed in 1933. Hitler visited in 1934, 1936, and 1937; Benito Mussolini was his guest for the 1937 tour.
Essen is seat to several of the region's authorities, as well as to eight of the 100 largest publicly held German corporations by revenue, including three DAX-listed corporations. Essen is often considered the energy capital of Germany with E.ON and RWE , Germany's largest energy providers, both headquartered in the city.
In 1934, the German Army High Command (Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH)) commissioned Krupp of Essen to design a gun to destroy the forts of the French Maginot Line that were nearing completion. The gun's shells had to punch through seven metres of reinforced concrete or one full metre of steel armour plate, from beyond the range of French ...
The Krupp family is a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, noted for its production of steel, artillery, ammunition and other armaments. The dynasty began in 1587 when trader Arndt Krupp moved to Essen and joined the merchants' guild. He bought and sold real estate, and became one of the city's richest men.
1886 – Photographische Genossenschaft von Essen (photography group) founded. [7] City centre with factories in the background in the 1890s. 1892 – City Theatre opens. [8] [9] 1893 Electric tram begins operating. Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate headquartered in Essen. 1898 – Krupp's Essener Hof (hotel) built.
Tyler Perry has dedicated the past quarter-century of his career to giving voice to Black women on stage and screen. With “The Six Triple Eight,” the self-made mogul — who leveraged his ...
The Essen Stadtbahn (German: Stadtbahn Essen) is a 19.6-kilometer (12.2 mi) [1] light rail network in Essen and the two neighbouring towns of Mülheim an der Ruhr and Gelsenkirchen in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia. It forms part of the Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn.
The Six Triple Eight, as the battalion was nicknamed, was tasked with sorting through 17 million pieces of undelivered mail in Europe and ensuring it was delivered to U.S. soldiers. At the time ...