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Jutting out of the clutter of Hamburg's docks is a giant rooftop sign that pinpoints the location of the big, busy Schliekerwerft. The yard is named after its owner, tough Willy Schlieker, who operates a worldwide complex of 15 shipyards, steel mills and trading companies with a yearly gross of $150 million. At 45, Moneymaker Schlieker is the youngest of postwar Germany's Wirtschaftswunder-knaben (economic wonderboys...
Last week he was busy filling orders for 15 ore carriers, bulk carriers, tankers and escort vessels for U.S. companies and the German navy. His ultramodern yard sends ships down the ways so fast that Schlieker does not even bother to take down tents and grandstands used for launching ceremonies. The 300,000-sq.-ft. yard has the biggest (capacity: 100,000 tons) drydock in Europe, an optical tracing device that projects cutting patterns on steel plates. Overseeing all is an electronic brain named "Big Brother" that tells Schlieker which machines have not worked at full capacity and why. From...
...West Germany's comeback, many a new name besides Nordhoff's has bobbed to the top of industry, e.g., Steelman Willy Hermann Schlieker, whose mills turned out $12 million worth of goods last year; Wilhelmshaven's typewriter king, Joachim Wussow, who exports portables to 139 countries...
WILLY HERMANN SCHLIEKER is the outstanding example of this type. Only 37, Schlieker is one of the Ruhr's ablest, richest (total 1950 business: $24 million) operators in the steel business. Son of a poor Hamburg ship fitter, he started work at 16 as an SS typist, joined the Nazi Party in 1941. He has twice reorganized the German steel industry: once for Hitler's war production boss, Albert Speer, later for the Allies. With similar impartiality, he shipped $12 million worth of goods to the Soviets in 1949-50. Then, when Bonn clamped down on this trade...