Friedrich Thyssen, a former steel company owner,
invests in the steel company of his son August
in order to keep the number of shareholders small
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After some years as a limited partner of the Thyssen-Fossoul company,
August Thyssen starts
up the Thyssen company. His brother Joseph joins the company, so that they can sharethe management.
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Before the start-up of the company, August Thyssen founds a health insurance. Then he creates a factory order, which describes the working conditions. |
Here the Thyssen brothers August und Joseph, Franz Wilke
and Albert Killing manage the group.
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After the divorce from his wife Hedwig, August Thyssen has to find a way to keep the Thyssen group together. |
The Thyssen company accumulates capital for a pension fund
in order to attract qualified personnel. To improve the social
conditions for their staff, the Thyssen group build flats for
their workers and open a company bank.
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Fritz Thyssen takes the company over and his nightmare begins... |
After the August Thyssen group had been closed after the war,
it started again in 1953. |
In 1969 the cooperation with Mannesmann started. |
After the rapid growth of the concern the take over of
Rheinstahl and its renaming into Thyssen Hütte AG
took place |
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