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[Grafen …] staden, which had previously been sold by the
commissioners). The production of the ELMAG A.G. was to be continued while the
Krawa from Essen, with its motor vehicle production, also moved to the premises
of the firm. For simplicity’s sake the old production of the ELMAG AG. was
called machine construction (“MaBA”) and the vehicle manufacture
“Krawa.”
The MaBA production, at the time that the plant was
taken over by the ELMAG G.m.b.H., thanks to the switch-over already undertaken
by the commissioners, comprised at most 40 percent of the old machine
production, of which only a fraction was the manufacture of the traditional
textile machines. Otherwise the MaBA production consisted in the manufacture of
war material. In keeping with the contractual obligations undertaken in the
lease agreement, the ELMAG G.m.b.H. administered the whole of the enterprise
with the care of a good merchant “while taking the greatest
possible care to safeguard the stocks of the ELMAG A.G. and its structure up to
that time.”
Naturally the production of textile machines decreased
even more, not only because the German officials allocated raw materials for
such peacetime production only to a very limited extent, but also because the
former export market for those Alsatian textile machines had been lost as a
result of wartime conditions.
For guaranteeing the interests of the
ELMAG A.G., provision had already been made by the fact that Mr. Dalmer
remained in Mulhouse in Alsace and that the Frenchmen, Jacquemin and Perdrizet,
who had already held leading positions in the SACM, offered their services as
Prokurists to the ELMAG G.m.b.H. The second commissioner of the ELMAG A.G., Dr.
Schumacher, was now working as manager, in particular for the MaBA production
within the ELMAG G.m.b.H.
The plants of the whole enterprise were
modernized and extended at great expense by the Krupp ELMAG G.m.b.H., so
that this was bound to result in great commercial advantages for the firm.
Here, among other things, the following should be mentioned: The conversion of
the entire obsolete accounting procedure to new accounting methods, the
installation of modern telephone equipment valued at more than 220,000
Reichsmarks, the extension of the winch-production in the plant at Jungholz,
the extension of the foundry in the Masmuenster shops, and considerable
investments for economic and social welfare purposes in the main works in
Mulhouse. For the repair of the buildings and installations of the ELMAG A.G.,
more than 3 million Reichsmarks were spent — for the works kitchen, fire
brigade, etc., more than one million Reichsmarks; and all that during a lease
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