This is a list of the largest companies of Nazi Germany by employees in 1938.
Companies by employees
The list is based on Fiedler (1999a, 1999b), who compiled data from a variety of sources. Given the shortage of historical employment data some employment numbers are only estimates and some companies might be missing from this list. Employment numbers are including all subsidiaries as long as the parent company is the majority shareholder, that is, holds more than 50 percent of the stock. An exception is Telefunken, which is included in the list as it was a joint venture of Siemens and Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft which each company holding 50 percent of the shares of Telefunken. Employee numbers are not including those employed in foreign subsidiaries. The only three companies in 1938 with large foreign subsidiaries were Siemens with 11.2 percent of the workforce employed abroad, Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft with less than 20 percent and Mannesmann with 10 percent. In 1938 seven of the 100 largest German companies were subsidiaries of foreign companies, all of them included in the list. The seven foreign-controlled companies were the subsidiaries of Luxembourgish Arbed (Felten & Guilleaume, Eschweiler Bergwerksverein and Burbacher Hütte), American General Motors (Adam Opel), American International Telephone & Telegraph (Deutsche I.T.& T.-Gruppe), American Singer Corporation (Singer Nähmaschinen), French de Wendel group (de Wendelsche Berg-und Hüttenwerke), Belgian Solvay (Deutsche Solvay) and Dutch-British Royal Dutch Shell (Rhenania Ossag Mineralölwerke).
Rank Company Employees Industry 1. Deutsche Reichsbahn 703,546 Railway 2. Deutsche Reichspost 397,890 Postal administration 3. I.G. Farbenindustrie 218,000 Chemicals 4. Vereinigte Stahlwerke 197,000 Mining and steel 5. Siemens (Siemens & Halske and Siemens-Schuckert) 165,975 Electrical engineering 6. Friedrich Krupp 123,408 Mining and steel 7. Gutehoffnungshütte 75,781 Mining and steel 8. Vereinigte Elektrizitäts- und Bergwerks Aktiengesellschaft 72,345 Mining and utilities 9. Friedrich Flick KG 71,408 Steel 10. Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft 65,000 Electrical engineering 11. Reichswerke Hermann Göring 63,000 Mining and steel 12. Saargruben AG 48,448 Mining 13. Daimler-Benz 47,095 Vehicles 14. Junkers Flugzeug-und Motorenwerke 44,015 Aircraft 15. Klöckner-Werke 43,409 Steel and mechanical engineering 16. Mannesmannröhrenwerke 43,000 Steel 17. Metallgesellschaft 41,000 Metals 18. Otto Wolff-Konzern 33,000 Steel 19. Arbed 32,000 Steel 20. Salzdetfurth AG 31,131 Mining 21. Hoesch 30,993 Steel 22. Adam Opel 27,000 Vehicles 23. Schering 26,665 Pharmaceuticals 24. Vereinigte Industrieunternehmungen AG 25,000 Metals, mining and utilities 25. Robert Bosch GmbH 23,233 Electrical engineering 26. Auto Union 22,673 Vehicles 27. Deutsche I.T.& T.-Gruppe 21,000 Electrical engineering 28. Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG 21,000 Shipbuilding and aircraft 29. Philipp Holzmann 20,800 Construction 30. Hochtief 20,425 Construction 31. Rudolph Karstadt 20,000 Retail 32. Deutsche Erdöl AG 20,000 Oil 33. Deutsche Werke Kiel 20,000 Shipbuilding 34. Hugo Schneider AG 19,200 Arms and ammunition 35. Deutsche Reichsbank 18,931 Banking 36. Christian Dierig 18,834 Textiles 37. Zellstofffabrik Waldhof 18,402 Paper 38. Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke 18,297 Aircraft 39. Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk 17,754 Utilities 40. Deutsche Bank 17,462 Banking 41. Deutsche Continental-Gas-Gesellschaft 17,400 Utilities 42. Bayerische Motoren-Werke 16,968 Vehicles 43. Continental Gummi-Werke 16,606 Rubber
See also Economic history of Germany Economy of Nazi Germany List of companies by employees List of German companies by employees in 1907
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References
External links Big Business webpage by Peter Wardley