I have ears in Kiel and in Berlin but no one’s been particularly forthcoming.” “All I know of your task is what I’ve gathered from your staff’s inquiries about our capacity, and what rumblings I’ve heard from Germaniawerft.
“I was very sorry to hear of Vitzeadmiral von Motz passing,” Krupp replied.
After a moment he said, “You’re aware, Herr Chairman, that I’ve been given a nearly impossible task, and those mills just may hold the key to achieving it?” Von Posen didn’t respond, pondering the pall of smoke that hung over the sprawling steel works. “To be sure, my mother never did,” answered Friederich Alfred Krupp, “No matter what mansions my father designed, she spent most summers in the Bavarian Alps and winters on the Italian coast.” Vitzeadmiral Alexander von Posen turned to his companion, a large, bespectacled younger man, and asked, “Does one ever get used to the smoke and grime?” January 1890 – Essen, Provinz Westfalen, Deutsches Kaiserreich
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