Nitrogenous Fertilisers in Germany – Paths of Distribution from Chile Saltpetre to Haber-Bosch-Ammonia and Cyanamide (ca 1914–1930)
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Christine Strotmann
Christine Strotmann (M.A.) is a PhD-student at the History Department at Humboldt University Berlin (Thesis “Brot oder Bomben? Stickstoffbewirtschaftung im Zeitalter der Weltkriege”; forthcoming, English translation of title: Bread or bombs? Government control of the nitrogen industry in the era of the World Wars). Prior publications include: The Revolutionary Program of the German Empire: The Case of Ireland, in:
G. Barry/E. Dal Lago/R. Healy (Eds.), Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I, Leiden 2016, pp. 19-36.
Abstract
This paper focusses on nitrogenous fertilisers in Germany and how they were distributed from the First World War into the 1930s. Since the availability of the fertilisers kept changing at a fast pace in the period under discussion here, the focus lies on policies concerning the production of nitrogen and the markets for nitrogenous fertilisers. The paper discusses the impact of the development of a (nearly) entirely new domestic nitrogen industry during the First World War on the market for nitrogenous fertilisers during the war and interwar period, up until the foundation of an international nitrogen cartel in 1930.
About the author
Christine Strotmann (M.A.)
is a PhD-student at the History Department at Humboldt University Berlin (Thesis “Brot oder Bomben? Stickstoffbewirtschaftung im Zeitalter der Weltkriege”; forthcoming, English translation of title: Bread or bombs? Government control of the nitrogen industry in the era of the World Wars). Prior publications include: The Revolutionary Program of the German Empire: The Case of Ireland, in: G. Barry/E. Dal Lago/R. Healy (Eds.), Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I, Leiden 2016, pp. 19-36.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Abhandlungen
- Fertilisers in the Long 19th Century and Beyond: Usage, Commercialisation and Production (c 1800–1939)
- Management of Soil Fertility and Agricultural Intensification in NW Iberia, 1750–1900
- The Price of Nitrogen at the End of the Nineteenth Century
- The British Fertiliser Manufacturers’ Association: Struggle for Survival 1870‒1930
- The Super State: The Political Economy of Phosphate Fertilizer Use in South Australia, 1880–1940
- Oilseed Cakes in Italy and France: Opportunities and Difficulties of a Market (late 19th and first half of the 20th Century)
- Nitrogenous Fertilisers in Germany – Paths of Distribution from Chile Saltpetre to Haber-Bosch-Ammonia and Cyanamide (ca 1914–1930)
- The French Nitrogen Industry during the Interwar Period: The Ambiguous Relationship between the State and Manufacturers
- Forschungs- und Literaturbericht
- Die Gauwirtschaftsberater der NSDAP
- Schools of Empiricism
