A Quest for Diversification? Norsk Hydro, IG Farben, and the German Light Metal Programme

Ketil Gjølme Andersen and Anette H. Storeide

Chapter 12 in Industrial Collaboration in Nazi-Occupied Europe, 2016, pp 299-329 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract While people on the southern coast of Norway were trying to enjoy the third summer of the German occupation the best they could, new factories for light metals drew close to completion at the Herøya peninsula a few kilometers outside of Porsgrunn town. Together with its German partners, Norsk Hydro, a world leading fertilizer producer, worked purposefully to finish production facilities for aluminium, alumina (aluminium oxide) and magnesium. The endeavour was organized within the framework of an independent Norwegian company called Nordisk Lettmetall, founded in Oslo in 1941. The company’s shares were equally distributed between Hydro, IG Farben and a company representing the German Luftwaffe, Nordag.

Keywords: Light Metal; Supervisory Board; Aluminium Production; Share Capital; Executive Board (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-53423-1_12

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