Editing ThyssenKrupp (section)

===Weimar Republic (1918–1933)===
'''Krupp'''
* 1919: After the [[Treaty of Versailles]], Krupp reverts to peace-time production focusing on the manufacture of locomotives, trucks, agricultural machinery, and excavators. The post-war circumstances of inflation, occupation, and dismantling of the company's industrial infrastructure led to a financial crisis in 1924/25. The company stabilizes by, among other measures, streamlining processing operations and expanding stainless steel production.
* 1926: Sintered tungsten carbide was developed by [[Osram]] as a material for machining metal. In 1925, Krupp buys the licence and launches sintered carbide onto the market, exploiting its exceptional hardness and wear resistance, which represents a breakthrough in tool engineering.
* 1929: A 15,000-ton forging press goes into operation in [[Borbeck-Mitte|Essen-Borbeck]]. It is at the time the largest worldwide.

'''Thyssen'''
* 1919: The company is renamed from Gewerkschaft Deutscher Kaiser to August Thyssen-Hütte; Gewerkschaft and mining operations are transferred to an independent company, Gewerkschaft Friedrich Thyssen. The company's foreign interests in the Allied and Soviet countries are expropriated.
* 1926: Major parts of the Thyssen group are transferred to a newly merged group, [[Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG]], bringing together several coal and steel companies in the [[Ruhr]] area to solve cost and production problems of excess capacities. August Thyssen dies at Schloss Landsberg near [[Essen]]. His sons Fritz Thyssen and Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza inherit the industrial enterprises. His other two children, Hedwig and August Jr., are compensated differently.