WIFO (Nazi company) explained

WIFO
Foundation:August 24, 1934
Defunct:1945

Wirtschaftliche Forschungsgesellschaft mbh (WiFo, English: Economic Research Company) was a Nazi Germany-owned company "charged with the construction and operation of solid fuel (natural and synthetic) storage depots."[1]

Chronology

1935 summer: At the suggestion of IG Farben, the Wirtschaftliche Forschungsgesellschaft (Wifo, Economic Research Ltd)[2] investigated the Kohnstein mine to centralize a fuel and chemical depot.[3] [4]

References

Wirtschaftliche Forschungsgesellschaft

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Strange . Anthony N . 2003 . Germany's Synthetic Fuel Industry 1927-45 . Fischer-Tropsch.org . 2009-10-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924013711/http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/presentations/AIChE%202003%20Spring%20National%20Meeting/Paper%2080a%20Stranges%20germany.pdf . 2015-09-24 .
  2. Book: Neufeld, Michael J. The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. 1995. The Free Press. New York. 0-02-922895-6. 202, 209, 230, 264. registration.
  3. Book: Ordway, Frederick I III. Sharpe, Mitchell R . The Rocket Team. Apogee Books Space Series 36. 1979. 75, 76, 79, 88.
  4. Book: Garliński, Józef . Józef Garliński. Hitler's Last Weapons: The Underground War against the V1 and V2. 1978. Times Books. New York. 105.