The Krupp works at Essen was the original plant in the Krupp steel, armaments,
and shipbuilding empire, which had been founded in 1811 by Friedrich Krupp.
The AEG is the Allgemeine Elektricitats Gesellschaft, or General Electric Com
pany, founded in Berlin in 1833 by the industrialist Emil Rathenau; it was
largely responsible for building the electrical infrastructure of modern Germany.