Part view of the Bruckhausen iron and steel works of August Thyssen-Hütte, Gewerkschaft, ca. 1920. View of the works and the August-Thyssen bridge.
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To minimize the impact of attempted socialization in the coal and steel industry, in 1919 Gewerkschaft Deutscher Kaiser is renamed "August Thyssen-Hütte, Gewerkschaft" and the mining operations transferred to an independent company, Gewerkschaft Friedrich Thyssen, named after August Thyssen's father. Thyssen's foreign interests in the countries of the victorious allies and the Soviet Union are expropriated.
Workers in protective clothing while tapping a blast furnace at August Thyssen-Hütte, Gewerkschaft, ca. 1926.
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