Rheinmetall AG is a German
automotive and
arms
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manufacturer, headquartered in
Düsseldorf
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,
Germany
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. Its shares are traded on the Frankfurt stock exchange.
History
Rheinmetall was founded in 1889. Banker and investor
Lorenz Zuckermandel
Lorenz Zuckermandel (18 February 1847 – 6 January 1928) was a German banker, investor, founder and translator, among other things, of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Thanks to his many talents, he worked his way from being the poor son of a ...
(1847–1928) was one of the founders and the first chairman of the supervisory board. It manufactured steel products, including armaments. During the post-WWI
disarmament of Germany, the company diversified, but by the 1930s armament manufacture resumed. In 1933, it acquired A. Borsig GmbH, which manufactured locomotives.
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