In the General Staff at Koenig Square, although it is now working hours, there are not many officers coming in and out.
Beneath the tall vaulted cupola, the footsteps of two men on the granite floor sounded like a line of soldiers walking in unison.
"Kurt, it's a little bit cold here," Hersman said, "but hopefully, at least we've got off to a good start." ” Hersmann was accompanied by Kurt Student, who had returned from Russia together and had a few days in Riga to inspect the factories there.
At the time of their departure from Riga, news of the Soviet-Polish peace talks in Riga and the establishment of diplomatic relations between Soviet Russia and the Baltic came from Moscow at the same time.
They walked through a rather large conference room, and through a long corridor, into an office full of photographs of various aircraft, and just by looking at the photographs, one could guess that this was the flight office of the General Staff.
"Oh, we've been a great success in Russia," Student said, gesturing to a somewhat worn armchair.
"But you also gave Junkers and Falkker a big problem, and I think Lenin must be very grateful to you."
"I'm not just embarrassed by Junkers and Falk for Russia's sake."
"Not for Russia" Student opened a cabinet, took out a thick stack of folders, and placed it on his desk and began to flip through it.
"Not only," Hirschman emphasized, "we need to walk on two legs, so we need to double the investment, and cooperation with the Russians will share the investment on one leg and we will work on the other." ” "Alright, I found it."
Student pulled out a folder from a pile of folders with the words "rotary engine" written on the skin.
"The strange engine of the French, the 14 cylinders of the Land God series that rotate together, can output 160 horsepower, and the power-to-weight ratio reaches 0667."
This was the ancestor of the star-type air-cooled engine, which was on a par with in-line liquid-cooled engines in World War II.
The French invented the rotary engine, which dissipates heat in a very strange way, by making the cylinders spin.
As a result, there is a huge inertia that makes the aircraft difficult to operate.
"Let BW improve and find a way to keep the cylinder from turning."
Hersman took the folder, opened it, and looked through it.
The information inside is very complete, not only with detailed drawings, but also with various test data.
The Germans captured a number of rotary engines during the war, and they copied them themselves.
"Let them copy the Land God 9N, and in 1923 they would have had the ability to come up with a 9-cylinder air-cooled engine with more than 400 horsepower and no rotation," Student said. ” Historically, the American company Pratt & Whitney came up with a similar product in 1925, the R1340 Wasp engine.
At that time, the Pratt & Whitney Company had just been founded, and it only had 20 employees, which was not comparable to BW.
Hersman hopes that BW will come up with the product before Pratt & Whitney so that it can patent the star engine.
"So be it," Hersman said, placing the folder that Studenter had given him into a handbag.
"I'll have no problem taking it away."
"It's okay, I still have it here."
Steudent said.
"And the one given to you is just a brief introduction, there are many more details, and there are samples."
Hersman said, "Send them to BW." ” "So should we bid for an in-line engine with the same horsepower?"
asked Steudent.
"Not for now," Hersman shook his head, "the funds are limited, so we need to save some money."
When our cooperation with the Russians starts to generate a lot of cash flow, it will not be too late to develop in-line engines. ” Compared with the star engine, the in-line engine is relatively widely used and can be applied to automobiles.
Therefore, Hersmann does not plan to finance the development of in-line engines for the time being, but wants to let German automobile companies and machinery companies do it themselves.
After all, cooperation with Soviet Russia requires a lot of investment.
Because the goods that the Russians could exchange with Germany were mainly oil.
The Russians could produce crude oil instead of refined oil, which required Germany to establish a corresponding oil processing and marketing industry.
To do this, the Industry Promotion Council has to provide substantial loans to BASF AG and Bayer.
In addition, the construction of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Facility will now begin.
According to Hersmann's plan, the future war would be extremely dependent on oil, so Germany would have to reserve at least 20 million tons of crude oil before the war broke out, which could sustain the war for at least two years.
Such a large scale of strategic oil reserves, not only requires a large number of reserve facilities, but also cannot be completed in the years before the outbreak of the war, and when the head of state comes to power, Britain, the United States, France and the Soviet Union will be vigilant, of course, they will not be open to selling oil to Germany, therefore, the reserve of oil can only start from the 20s, and it must be a long stream, with a reserve of one or two million tons per year, and it will be almost ready before the start of World War II.
In addition to oil reserves, research and investment in coal-to-oil have also been secretly proposed.
Hersmann hoped that by 1939 Germany would have a capacity of 5 million tons of synthetic fuel per year.
This, of course, also involves huge investments, not only in synthetic fuel plants, but also in coal mines.
If necessary, it is even necessary to invest in coal mines in Austria and the Czech Republic.
In addition, the reserve of non-ferrous metals also began in the 20s.
Like oil, non-ferrous metal resources were a shortcoming of Germany in World War II.
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Almost all non-ferrous metals were lacking in Germany, and without these non-ferrous metals, Germany's military industry would be in great trouble during wartime.
And the reserve of non-ferrous metals is not only a matter of spending money to buy, sometimes it is necessary to go abroad to find ores.
In Hersmann's memory, Austria has the largest tungsten mine in Europe, and the Czech Republic has a relatively rich manganese, graphite and uranium mine, and the uranium mine in the Czech Republic has long been discovered and mined, but not to make nuclear weapons, but to be used as a colorant for porcelain.
Hersman was going to look for an opportunity to buy uranium ore there, and then stock up on the uranium ore produced every year.
In addition, the Belgian Congo is also rich in uranium, and as far as Hirschman knows, the bituminous uranium mines there have been exploited since 1921.
The uranium mines in the Belgian Republic of the Congo also have to find a way to get their hands on them By the time Otto Hahn and Lize Meitner discovered the phenomenon of nuclear fission, these things would be of great use.
So, in the next few years.
The Industrial Promotion Council needs to invest a large amount of money, and it is definitely not rich in hand, so it can only invest limited funds in the sectors that need it most.
In the office of the chief of the Political Department of the General Staff in "Why1939", Colonel Kurt von Schleicher looked at the oil and non-ferrous metal reserve plan that Hersmann had just drawn up, which was to be adopted at the working meeting of the Industrial Promotion Committee in 1921.
And Colonel Schleicher is now a hot and powerful figure in the General Staff, and he has a share in the Industrial Promotion Committee, the Officers' Union, the Aviation Committee, and so on.
For Hersman's plan to be adopted, his support must be enlisted.
"What's so special about this year," Schleicher looked up at Hersmann, "the reserves of oil, aluminum, manganese, ferrochrome, zinc, lead, copper, etc., and the reserves of uranium, and the artificial gasoline plant, were required to be completed by August 31, 1939."
Can you tell me what September 1, 1939 is?"
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