Ideology and Business Strategy: Assessing Nazi Germany’s Different Approaches to the Supply of Light Metals for the Luftwaffe

Lutz Budrass

Chapter 2 in Industrial Collaboration in Nazi-Occupied Europe, 2016, pp 37-61 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the autumn of 1940, Heinrich Koppenberg, director general of the state owned Junkers combine, by then the largest German producer of aircraft and one of the largest German enterprises, presented a light metal programme for Norway to Hermann Göring. A number of facilities should be erected and expanded in order to use hydroelectric power from Norway’s waterfalls to boost the country’s aluminium production to 180,000 tons in 1943. With this, the shortage of aluminium in the German aircraft industry would be eliminated and in turn enable it to win the air war against the Western Allies. The Leichtmetallausbau Norwegen was an epitome of the Nazi Grossraumwirtschaft (Greater Economic Area) for Europe. At first, a domestic aluminium ore, labradorite, was to be used; at a later stage a much richer ore, bauxite, should be transported from France, Hungary and Croatia to Norway.

Keywords: Light Metal; Aircraft Industry; Secondary Aluminium; Aircraft Producer; Aluminium Scrap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-53423-1_2

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