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...yourselves." Erhard received such an ovation in Socialist Nürnberg that he raced off across his native Franconian countryside singing Ins Land der Franken fahren from his Mercedes' windows. He outdrew Socialist Boss Erich Ollenhauer three to one in the Saarland's industrial Völklingen. Heckled by Volkswagen workers in Wolfsburg over his plan to sell their state-owned plant, he sent 35,000 letters to their homes explaining that the whole idea was to sell "people's shares" to small investors like themselves. Wolfsburg, like Nürnberg and Vঝklingen, went C.D.U...
...week France admitted the defeat of its hopes for economic control of the Saar, which will be incorporated into West Germany Jan. 1. France handed back to the Röchlings, several of them alumni of French jails as war criminals, the iron and steel works at Völklingen, employing 14,000 workers and producing 1,000,000 tons of steel a year...
Divesting the Dismantler. Völklingen, the Saar's biggest single industrial operation, is the base of the Röchlings' 250-year-old empire, which spills into West Germany with a coal field near Aachen, a steel business at Mannheim, an iron works at Wetzlar. The family's real rise to power began under sword-scarred Hermann Röchling, prime mover of the Saar's vast industrial buildup of the early 1900s. As a war mobilizer in the Kaiser's army in World War I, Captain Röchling ordered the scrapping...
Died. Hermann Röchling, 82, head of the Röchling Iron and Steel Works in Völklingen through World Wars I and II, sometime Nazi industrial boss of the Saar; in Mannheim, Germany. The first industrialist to be convicted of waging aggressive war (1948), Röchling had his seven-year sentence boosted to ten by a French appeals court, was later released in 1951, and barred with his family from entering the Saar or his factories, now French...
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