1920年代におけるライン・ヴェストファーレン電力株式会社の発展 : 公私混合企業としての蓄積を中心に

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The Rheinisch-Westfalisches Elektrizitatswerk AG (RWE) is the biggest electric company in Germany. This paper deals with the Integration, Competition, and Ownership of RWE in the 1920s. In this period RWE operated the largest-capacity coal-fired power plant, the Goldenberg plant, and extended a 220-kv. line 250 kilometers southward from Koln to a hydroelectric plant in the Alps. RWE thus began operating an economic mix of energy - brown coal, hard coal, and the water-power. At that time, the coordination of interconnected power plants supplying a large area was defined as the essence of rationalization. RWE negotiated cooperative arrangements with local governments that not only enlarged the area of supply but also provided expansion capital. By 1927, cities such as Koln, Dusseldorf, Bonn, and districts such as Osnabruck, Trier, Cochem were purchasing RWE stock and taking electric supply from RWE. Stock ownership brought the local governments membership on the company's advisory committee (board of directors). RWE thus evolved into the mixed-ownership enterprise with about half of its shares in the hands of local governments and the other half in the hands of private capitalists, such as H. Stinnes, A. Thyssen. The local governments often opposed the policy of the electric supply which the private capitalists enforced. The important function of the mixed-ownership enterprise was to conceal the opposition.
1999-01-20