I: Introductory Remarks.- II: European Reconstruction Dismantling of German Plants?.- A Morgenthau Doctrine and Marshall Plan.- B Dismantling or Economic Co-Operation?.- C Curtailing of Marshall Plan Quota as an Equivalent of a Dismantling Stop?.- D Benefits Arising from a Stop to Dismantling.- III: Ruhr Economy under the Influence of Dismantling.- A The Engineering, Economic, and Social Structure of the Ruhr District, a Compound System Reacting Sensitively to Arbitrary Interference.- B Brandies of Industry Listed for Dismantling.- I. Industries Indirectly Affected (Secondary Dismantling).- a. Coal Mines.- 1. The Ruhr Coal Mining Industry and Basis of its Capacity.- 2. Destruction of the Basis of Capacity by Earmarked Dismantling of Mining Supply Works.- 3. Intermediate Conclusion.- b. Coke-Oven Plants Used as a Basis for Refining Coal.- c. Power Trade.- 1. Gas Economy.- 2. Electric Power Trade.- II. Industries Directly Affected (Primary Dismantling).- a. Chemical Industry.- 1. General Problems of Curtailed Capacities in the Chemical Industry.- 2. Dismantling Problems and Prohibited Production in Coal Chemical, Industries.- a) Fischer Tropsch Synthesis.- b) Hydrogenation Plants.- c) Production of Buna.- d) Dismantling of Ethylene Plants.- 3. Other Plants not Belonging to the Coal-Chemical Industry.- a) Dismantling of Oxygen Plants.- b) Dismantling of Soap Powder Plants.- 4. Intermediate Conclusions.- b. Iron and Steel Producing and Metal Working Industries.- 1. Preliminary Remarks.- 2. Large-Scale Dismantling in the Iron and Steel Sector.- a Completed or Advanced Large-Scale Dismantlings.- 1) H?ttenwerk Essen-Borbeck (B. S. 54, Metallurgical Plant).- 2) Harkort-Eicken, Edelstahlwerke GmbH (Stahlwerk Hagen), Wetter (B. S. 51).- 3) Bandeisenwalzwerk Dinslaken (B. S. 85, Plant for the Production of Cold and Hot Rolled Strip).- 4) Wagner & Co., Dortmund (B. S. 283, Machine Tool Builders).- 5) Ruhrstahl AG. Annener Gu?stahl-Werke B. S. 58. (Steel Producing lÓ/