Heinrich Ehrhardt
1889 founder name. Policy or ancestor soil of Rheinmetall.
Darker cells mean a higher score for this topic on that metric.
Scale30
Intensity20
Duration72
Tech shift52
Political impact40
Cultural memory28
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Quick answers
Are the scores a ranking of nations or armies?
No. Scores are browsing aids inside an era-bounded atlas — not live league tables of countries.
Did the firm close in 1945?
Defeat ended the Nazi-era armaments economy. The defence revival is a 1950s West German rearmament story, not a seamless shop.
What is the Rh-120 in this file?
A public designation of a late Cold War tank gun associated with the firm and with Leopard 2. Named as history. Not a specification or a build guide.
How does Korea fit?
Industrial partnerships and competitions around K2 and K9 -- a 2010s-20s firm story. See Hanwha and the ROK military pages.
What is Zeitenwende here?
A 2022 German political slogan after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, used in budget and plant-expansion news. A late chapter, not a weekly tracker.
Why mention forced labour?
Because a Ruhr armaments firm in 1939-45 shares that ledger with peers. Skipping it is a brochure.
Historical works, Bundeswehr procurement offices, and named plants as past geography.
Not a current German ORBAT or a live ammunition-plant capacity tracker.
Systems
Rh-120
Late Cold War tank-gun designation in English hobby speech -- named, not specified as a build.
Bundeswehr return
1955-56 West German rearmament that legally restarted a defence contractor. A public signature type or programme -- named, not specified.
Heinrich Ehrhardt
The 1889 name -- a Ruhr industrialist, not a present executive.
Leopard 2 / Rh-120 public era
1979-80s: The poster types.
Works geography
Dusseldorf and Ruhr works; Bundeswehr procurement; later European and Korean partnerships is the industrial map of Rheinmetall (1889-present as a firm (defence revival after 1956 Bundeswehr rearmament)) -- plants and hearings, not a capacity leak.
Meters
Atlas scale (not a war)
30
Peak intensity
20
How long it defined a period
72
Tech or method shift
52
Borders, regimes, law, alliances
40
Film, school, ritual density
28
Hotspots
Founding to WW1
1889-1918: A Ruhr munitions works. Named as historical geography of Rheinmetall, not as a targeting list.
Contraction and crime
1919-45: Weimar to Nazi-era ledger. Named as historical geography of Rheinmetall, not as a targeting list.
Bundeswehr supplier
1956-90: Leopard generations. Named as historical geography of Rheinmetall, not as a targeting list.
Shrink and export
1991-2021: Korea footnotes thicken. Named as historical geography of Rheinmetall, not as a targeting list.
Zeitenwende chapter
After 2022: Budget and plant headlines. Named as historical geography of Rheinmetall, not as a targeting list.
Materials
Chronology (1889-present as a firm (defence revival after 1956 Bundeswehr rearmament))
Rheinmetall is bounded as 1889-present as a firm (defence revival after 1956 Bundeswehr rearmament). 1889 opens the usual narrative (Firm founded); 2022 closes it (Zeitenwende headlines).
Theatre: Dusseldorf and Ruhr works; Bundeswehr procureme.
Place is evidence. Dusseldorf and Ruhr works; Bundeswehr procurement; later European and Korean partnerships is where Rheinmetall happened -- a map for readers, not a guide for repeating it.
Human-cost band
not a war -- a firm; human cost sits in the wars that used the products Keep the figure as a range. Spectacle integers are not a census.
Bundeswehr return
1955-56 West German rearmament that legally restarted a defence contractor. A material of the Rheinmetall vocabulary, dated to 1889-present as a firm (defence revival after 1956 Bundeswehr rearmament).
A works town's employment is the honest force.
No gun-design content.