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| APPENDIX A | ||
| The term "Flick Concern", as used in
this indictment refers to the business enterprises controlled, influenced, and
in substance largely owned, by Friedrich Flick. Many additions and changes took
place during the years 1933 to 1945, both in the physical plants included in
the concern and in the legal structure in which they were contained. Corporate
reorganizations within the concern were almost constantly in progress. From
1940 to 1945 the general nature of the corporate structure was not
fundamentally changed, although certain changes took place in intercorporate
stockholdings and companies were added to operate plants in occupied
territories. The Flick Concern constituted the largest privately owned and controlled enterprise in Germany for the production of iron, steel products, and armaments. It was surpassed in productive capacity in the industry only by the state-owned Hermann Goering Works and by Vereinigte Stahlwerke A.G. (United Steel Works), in which the government held a substantial interest. The concern owned and operated soft [brown] coal, hard [soft] coal, and iron mines;* blast furnaces and smelting, coking, and chemical plants, including plants for production of synthetic fuel, rolling mills, and fabricating plants for manufacture of finished products, such as ammunition, armor plate, gun carriages, armored cars and trucks, and other Panzer materials; airplanes and airplane parts; and railroad cars, parts, and locomotives. From at least 1937 until April 1945, the Flick Concern was largely owned, directly or indirectly, by a parent holding company known as Friedrich Flick Kommanditgesellschaft (FKG), a limited partnership of which Friedrich Flick was the only personally liable partner. At first, Flick was the sole owner of FKG. In form most of the ownership of FKG was subsequently transferred to Flick's sons, but it was in substance treated by Flick as his own property, and, as the only general partner, he was in complete control of FKG at all times from 1937 to 1945. The most important of the companies of the Flick Concern are listed below. Unless otherwise indicated, Flick interests owned a majority of the stock of each. Their designation as companies in the form of A.G. or G.m.b.H. (both of which designations describe limited liability companies) is not exclusive; several of the companies were changed from one form to the other. The Flick Concern comprised, among other interests, the following: |
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| NAME AND LOCATION | NATURE OF COMPANY | |
| Anhaltische Kohlenwerke A.G. (AKW) | Brown coal mines in central Germany. | |
| ATG (Allgemeine
Transportanlage) Maschinenbau G.m.b.H., Leipzig |
Aircraft. | |
| Brandenburger
Eisenwerke A.G., Brandenburg, near Berlin |
Panzer materials.
[Armored vehicles e.g., tanks, armored cars]. |
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| Chemische Werke Essener Steinkohle, A.G., Essen | Chemicals; owned by Essener Steinkohle. | |
* Concerning the usage of "soft coal" and "hard coal" in the trial, see footnote to paragraph 15 of the indictment, this section.
