Hoesch AG

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Entrance to the Hoesch headquarters in Dortmund

The Hoesch AG was an important steel and mining company with locations in the Ruhr area and Siegen. At the time of its sale by the Nordmann family to Krupp in 1991 it was the third largest steel manufacturer in Germany.

Nazi involvement

Fritz Springorum represented Hoesch AG at the Secret Meeting of 20 February 1933 at which prominent industrialists met with Adolf Hitler to finance the Nazi Party.[1]

References

  1. ↑ recording of Martin Blank for Paul Reusch printed in: Dirk Stegmann (1973). Zum Verhältnis von Großindustrie und Nationalsozialismus 1930-1933. Bonn-Bad Godesberg. p. 477. 
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