1936-1945   1936 Merger of Rheinmetall and Borsig into Rheinmetall-Borsig AG       1938 Company headquarters moved from Düsseldorf to Berlin      1940 German army gaining increasing control of arms production       1944 - 1945                                   Production facilities damaged and destroyed by air raids, hence production relocated to many other places in what was to become the GDR and what is today Poland       1945 End of WW II followed by production ban imposed by the military government     1950 Start-up in Düsseldorf of barely successful nonmilitary products		Contact cL historia Dr. Christian Leitzbach Hohenstein 150 42283 Wuppertal Germany Further information