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Industrialization in Germany was the phase of the breakthrough of industrialization in Germany, beginning at the time from around 1815 to 1835. [1] [2] This period was preceded by the periods of pre-industrialization and early industrialization. In general, the decades between the 1830s and 1873 are considered the phase of industrial take off.
In 1914 German steel output was 17.6 million tons, larger than the combined output of Britain, France and Russia. [68] Germany's coal production reached 277 million tons in 1914, not far behind Britain's 292 million tons and far ahead of Austria-Hungary's 47 million tons, France's 40 million tons and Russia's 36 million tons.
German industrial output dropped to 3.6% in September vis-à-vis August. [79] [80] In January 2009 the German government under Angela Merkel approved a €50 billion ($70 billion) economic stimulus plan to protect several sectors from a downturn and a subsequent rise in unemployment rates. [81]
In July 1937, the Reichswerke Hermann Göring was established as a new industrial conglomerate to extract and process domestic iron ores from Salzgitter, as the first step in a general effort to increase German steel production in preparation for war. [116]
Country/Economy Total GDP (USD$) Agricultural (%) Industrial (%) Service (%) Agricultural (USD$) Industrial (USD$) Service (USD$) – World 104,480
Feldman, Gerald D. Army, Industry and Labor in Germany, 1914–18 (1966) Gross, Stephen. "Confidence and Gold: German War Finance 1914-1918," Central European History (2009) 42#2 pp. 223–252 in JSTOR; Karau, Mark D. Germany's Defeat in the First World War: The Lost Battles and Reckless Gambles That Brought Down the Second Reich (ABC-CLIO, 2015).
It’s a dramatic shift in import-export dynamics across the continent, particularly for Germany’s industrial powerhouse. It’s also a shift that might remind history buffs of the U.S. Rust Belt.
Borders of post-World War II Germany (1949). West Germany is shown in blue, East Germany is shown in red, The Saar protectorate under French economic control is shown in green. The Ruhr Area, the industrial engine of West Germany, is shown in brown as it was to some extent under the control of the International Authority for the Ruhr.