Controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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1933
Association with Nazi industrial financing
Fritz Springorum represented Hoesch at the 20 February 1933 meeting of prominent industrialists associated with fundraising for Adolf Hitler's Nazi movement.
1933
Wartime armaments production and forced labor
After the Nazi takeover, Hoesch produced armaments-related materials and extensively used forced labor during the Second World War. By December 1944, forced laborers made up more than one-third of the workforce at the Hoesch steelworks.