Expansion of German Textiles in the 18th Century

German Textile Factories in the 18th Century

Bobby Backes

The very first textile factory built in Germany was in 1784.  It was built in Ratingen which is located near Dusseldorf. The first German textile factory was model after an English factory but it was its own factory in Germany. They also named it Cromford after the English factory that they modeled. Textile Manufacturing was the first industry to be mechanized. This was primarily established due to several trading centers in Germany. Some of the trading centers in Germany in the 18th century are Aachen, Krefeld, and Saxony.  The trading center of Aachen traded several types of threads needed for the textile factories. In Krefeld they also treaded thread along with silk which was highly sot after in the 18th Century. They also treaded the highly want silk in Saxony.  

The textile factories need spinning machines so the first German made spinning machine was built in 1782. It was developed in the town of Chemnitz. The development of this German made spinning machine helped the town of Chemnitz become a pioneer in engineering. The more people wanted textiles the more factories and workers were needed. With the unstoppable spread of these spinning machines workers were need and forced to work. In Upper Silesia hungry weavers began to rebel and the uprisings became a symbol of the epoch in contemporary literature.

The building of textile factories was just the beginning to the industrial revolution in Germany.  The factories brought work but at what cost. In the 18th century the workers at these factories did not have a very good life. They work hard and worked very long hours with no food to eat. The growth of these factories helped build the future of Germany.

http://www.erih.net/industrial-history/germany.html

18th Century Industry and Business

Robert Backes
Jacob Mackedanz
Tom Louiselle

Atached is a link that will bring you to the presentation we created for class.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzsUxLZTdzX1eUtPUnp0MVk5NjQ/edit

This is the hand out for the class

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5 Posts about "All Quite on the Western Front"

-         How the teacher persuaded the men to join the war.

-         How Paul’s generation is a lost generation because of the war.

-         The horrors that the men had to face on both sides of the front.

-         The struggles the men had to face when they were not fighting like, finding food, keeping their sanity in the trenches, and so on.

-         How the movies scenery was so close to the time period because it was filmed only a few years after the war.  

Chapter Five – All Quiet on the Western Front

Robert Backes

Jessica Hall

Jacob Mackedanz

Haitam Aldaij

 

Chapter Five – All Quiet on the Western Front

 

The chapter begins with Paul and his friends killing lice by using their fingernails.  One of Paul’s friends, Tjaden, makes a contraption out of the top of a boot-polish lid and a candle to burn the lice. Haie’s makes a joke about his lice because they have red crosses on their head so he says he must have got them at hospital where his lice attendee surgeon general.  Haie’s then also makes a joke saying he’s going to use the fat from the lice to polish his own boots.  This is the most funny to Haie, but not so much everyone else.  The arrival of Himmelstoss has dampened everyone’s mood. 

 

As everyone is spending hours talking and meditating, Albert shows up with a mess-tin of beans he’s scored for himself.  This prompts Muller to ask Albert what he’d do if we were suddenly in peace-time.  This brings Kat, Baumer and the rest into the topic.  Albert even awakes Haie to ask him what he’d do if it was peace time.  Haie eventually admits that he’d stay with the Prussians and serve out his time as a non-com.  During their conversation, Himmelstoss appears, but they act as though they really hadn’t noticed him standing there.  Himmelstoss engages them and is expecting respect as a superior officer, but instead, he and Tjaden get into a discourteous dialogue that ends when Tjaden moons Himmelstoss.  Himmelstoss disappears in the direction of the Orderly Room and all bust out in laughter.  Tjaden then makes himself scarce for when they come looking for him. 

 

Muller brings the conversation back to Albert and asks again what he’d do if it were peace time.  The discussion turns to their classmates and their teacher Kantorek.  Some poking fun of their teacher is in order and brings on more laughter.  Schooling and what to do after the war is talked about.  They conclude that nothing will be the same after war and that the war has ruined them. 

 

Soon the sergeant-major and Himmelstoss appear looking for Tjaden.  Noticing he’s not there and no one telling where he is, it is ordered that Tjaden should return to the Orderly Room in 10 minutes.   Tjaden is made aware of the order and disappears.  The rest gather to play cards.  That evening they each are called to the Orderly Room.  Paul explains the bed-wetting incident involving Tjaden.  In the end, Himmelstoss gets a lecture and Tjaden gets three days open arrest. 

 

After an hour, Paul and Kat sneak to Tjaden and Kropp and play cards.  When the card game has ended, Kat and Paul go off to get themselves a goose for roasting.  For two cigarettes they get a ride to their destination and Paul agrees to get the goose.  The getting of the goose didn’t go as smoothly as planned.  After quite a ruckus and the meeting of a bull dog, a goose is thrown over the wall.  The goose is roasted at once in a small deserted lean-to; this takes a long time and they take turns while the other sleeps.  Paul feels very close to Kat and feels peace with his presence.  Finally, the goose is done and they eat.  The remainder of the goose is wrapped up and brought to Tjaden and Kropp.  The feathers from the goose are kept too, and will be used to make pillows.  Dawn is approaching and Kat and Paul return to their huts.

The character ofPaul Baumer

Robert Backes

All Quiet on the Western Front

Role of the character Paul Baumer

 

                In the book All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul Baumer is the main character and narrator of this novel.  Paul had enlisted in the German army at the young age of 19. Paul states that if he lives through the war he will not know what to do with himself.  His entire manhood has been war and he does not know how he will be able to exist in a world without war.  Before the war Paul was a very sensitive, creative, and loving person who wrote poetry. He loved his family and was able to express himself by being able to share his true emotions.

                During the war his ability to be the man that he once was is lost.  With all the killing and death his ability to express his emotions is lost. He starts to separate himself from emotion and the hardships that he has faced.  One of the most powerful quotes that I felt was in this novel helps prove this. Paul stated “Parting from my friend Albert Kropp was very hard. But a man gets used to that sort of thing in the army.”  The war had changed Paul’s attitude and personality along with other aspects of his past life.

                By the end of the novel Paul is struggling with himself. He realizes that the war has destroyed his hopes and dreams. Paul feels like he will never be able to regain any of them.  Paul’s inner person was killed long before his true death.  He has no more emotion for anything. Paul comes to a conclusion that he will no longer know what to do with himself and decides that there is nothing else to loose.

                After years of fighting and the loss of his soul Paul is finally killed. He was killed in October 1918 on a very peaceful and alarmingly quiet day. Paul is finally free from the hardship of the war. The army report that day contains only one phrase: “All quiet on the Western Front.” As Paul dies, his face is calm, “as though almost glad the end had come.”