1936-1950

Merger of Rheinmetall and Borsig into Rheinmetall-Borsig AG

Relocation of the company headquarters from Düsseldorf to Berlin

Increasing control of armaments production by the Reich via the "Commissioner for the Four-Year Plan".

Mass deployment of German and foreign forced labourers in all the factories of factories of Rheinmetall-Borsig AG

Damage and destruction of production facilities by air raids, therefore relocation of production to numerous locations in the later GDR and present-day Poland

Start of a less successful civilian production programme in Düsseldorf