The German works AG goes back on the establishment of the royal ones threw into Kiel in the year 1867. It 1871 renamed into imperial ones threw and was mainly busy with the building by warships for the imperial navy like their sister shipyards in Wilhelmshaven and Danzig. In particular it profited from the substantial fleet armament in the term of office of William II.

To the First World War it came to a substantial order break-down, since the fleet strength of the Weimar Republic was cut substantial by the Versailler contract. 1925 threw and in Kiel to German working the AG fused some other mechanical engineering and which lay completely in the possession of the German Reich. After one had produced at present the Weimar Republic mainly civilian ships such as tankers, freighters and Fischdampfer, one era of armament began again with the third realm, so that the German works concentrated again completely on naval shipbuilding. Acquaintance with the German works of the pile ships run were among other things the tank ship Germany (later renamed in ) and the battle ship Gneisenau. During the Second World War mainly submarines were built.

The German works were strongly destroyed by bomb attacks and partly dismantled after end of war. The range of the machine and Lokomotivbaus was summarized in the MaK, the throwing plants were taken over 1955 by the Howaldtswerke.

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