Conrad’s Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie, etc., III series, Vol. 49 (1915, January), p. 351.
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Small item (in “Miscellaneous”) by Waldecker on a book in Russian, by A. N. Zak, Germans and German Capital in Russian Industry (St. Petersburg, 1914)— (Zak director of the Central Bank of Mutual Credit Societies). |
Zak |
| Total Share Capital in Russia: | ||||||
| (million rubles) | ||||||
| Russian | Foreign | Σ | ||||
| (round figures) |
1903— | 41.7 | +16.8 | = | 58.5 | |
| 1904— — | 92.5 | 26.7 | 119.2 | |||
| 1905— — — | 64.3 | 8.0 | 72.3 | |||
| 1910— — — | 190.5 | 33.7 | 224.2 | |||
| 1912— — — | 371.2 | 30.3 | 401.5 | |||
| Number of Russian companies | ... | 1,237 | capital = 410.3 | |
| foreign | ... | 196 | (“operating” in Russia) |
| These companies have their head offices in: | |||||
| Germany | — — — | 24 | companies | Switzerland . . . . . . . . . | 6 |
| Sweden | — — — | 3 | ” | Italy . . . . . . . . . | 1 |
| Britain | — — — | 33 | ” | Austria . . . . . . . . . | 3 |
| Holland | . . . | 2 | ” | Turkey . . . . . . . . . | 1 |
| Belgium | . . . | 70 | ” | U.S.A. . . . . . . . . . | 6 |
| France. | . . . | 48 | ” | ||
| Branches of Industry | ||||
| German capital |
Its profit |
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| (million rubles) | ||||
| 1) Iron and steel . . . . . . . . . | 20 (1912) | 5.5 | ||
| 2) Machine building . . . . . . . . . | 11.5 | |||
| 3) Engineering . . . . . . . . . | 38.5 | |||
| 4) Soda . . . . . . . . . | ½ of total capital | |||
| 5) Electrical . . . . . . . . . | 50 | |||
| 6) Electrical engineering . . . . . . . . . | 57 | |||
| 7) Gas . . . . . . . . . | 12.5=71.8% of total capital; | |||
| +12.6% French | ||||
| + 7.4% Belgian | ||||
| + 8.2% Russian | ||||
| 8) Petroleum (Deutsche Bank) . . . . . . . . . | 20 | |||
| 9) Textiles . . . . . . . . . | (34-50% in Moscow Gubernia
and Baltic provinces) |
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| Σ not given by the author | ||
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