Investigation on the Documents of the Automotive Industry in the Archives of the former German Democratic Republic after the German Unification.

1.这份最终报告是作者为研究德国汽车工业发展而进行的三年研究工作的成果。这个行业在20世纪30年代和40年代试图采用美国的大规模生产体系，但在第二次世界大战后，他实际上通过引入福特的生产技术实现了自己的成功创新，他开创了西德主导工业的新时代。20世纪90年代，精益生产技术已经渗透到德国的汽车装配和零部件行业。另一方面，东德的汽车工业原则上在福特的生产方式上有所进步，但它被纳入中央集权化的工业组织，即所谓的工业联合体(“Kombinat”)，与西方国家的竞争社会隔绝。因此，本研究分为两大主题：一是德国汽车工业福特制度实施与修改的比较视角；二是东德汽车工业历史，包括东西德一体化后福特汽车工业转型过程的研究。这些部分借鉴了作者的最新研究成果，特别是研究的实证核心是研究前东德汽车工业自1990年以来在构成德国新的综合汽车工业的组装和零部件公司之间为生存而挣扎的工业史。同时，该项目非常重视调查和收集关于20世纪30年代以来德国汽车工业发展的各种文件，二战后东德保留了这些文件。

1. This final report is the result three years of research work arried out by the auther so as to study up on the development of the German automotive industry. This industry attempted to adopt the american mass production system during 1930s and 1940s, but after World War II he realized in fact his successful innovations by introducing the Ford's production techniques, and he ushered in a new era of leading industry in the West Germany. Durin 1990s the lean production echniques have permeated the vehicle assemblers and components industry in Germany. On the other side, the automotive industry of East Germany progressed, in principle, in the Ford' methods of Production systems, but it was integrated into the centralizae industrial organisations, the so called industrial complex ("Kombinat"), which was isolated from the competitive societies of the Western Countries.2. This researching work is therefore divided into two main subjects : Comparative perspectives on the implementation and modificatin of the Ford's system in the German automotive industry ; and the industrial history of the East German automotive industry, includes a researching on his transformation process after the integration of East-West Germanys. These sections draw on the latest research carried out by the auther, especialy the empirical core of the research is a study of the industrial history of the formar East German automotive industry struggling for survival going on among the assembler and components firms which constitute the new integrated automotive industry of Germany since 1990. At the same time significant attention in the project was given to investigate and to collect the various documents on the development of the German automotive industry since 1930s, which the achieves in the East Germany retained after World War II.