European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Buying Ameri Aniseh doily Moo Ozine k by John Vinocur new times Arl hosts Tittle factory on Stalion Weg in to Rusdorf it just another smudge of Light in diary on the outskirts of there Are no revolutionary manufacturing pro or novel Money spinning utile iffy by Bra own definition he is physically Large and heavy set is building a f a toy in fill Case is symptomatic of the greatest wave of wot German investment in the since world a wave now Strong that it is taking n mass of Smalt along with my the trend is striking not Only because some germans see it As a Lack of Lon term Confidence in West but because of the picture of the that it often projected with it that of in arc conservative comm fitted to a kind of darwinist la capital ism that will protect private Enterprise to theres Tom due wrong Ham Frie told German friends All these null and the big Koran behaving Mara tymm the of but and this invest meat la american real Dale by private invest k note to in Wutte losing the Confidence of taste there Are the bit operations Daimler Benzs acquisition of Euclid and Siemens baying 90 percent of the electrical equipment but there Are Many hundreds of Small companies such As Franz Hermle Sohn of which clock or Hofmann of a manufacturer of wheel balancing or Spleth of stint a producer of Bowling who set up operations in the United on the there is the Clear logic of lower american production costs and the fall in the value of the Dollar o explain the investment but Here u an additional ii defies lock said Bart Mai Talna director of the european development office of the state of there an so Many very Small operations going u America from ii the Grandfather who Wanli the grandson to have a Plede to the pie in 20 years and thinks the German unions Are to take it away from no one dared talk about it few Yean 8m los great matter of the trend is clearly upsetting to German Trade which have won remarkable benefits for their members and a growing through a co Detent Lauon in worker participation in management of the mass circulation Magazine item calculated that recent German overseas most of it in the has brought More than Square Miles of real estate under German s total about As Large As the Eastern provinces severed from Germany after world War a gauge of the issues sensitivity came when managing editor was suspended after ill director found the article titled and tomorrow the whole world an allusion to a line in a nazi March ing song irresponsible both in title and the article questioned the foreign investment activities of Many leading businessmen and pointed out the tax advantages under United Law of american shopping centers and Oil weekend editions of West German newspapers Are packed with offers to invest in the Over maps of the charts of Oil and explanations of How to Purchase ranches and Poten tial buyers German Industry is Rife buying in America and its getting us moneys Are you the tone of the Adt is generally an Appeal to a German need Tor socialist ii still a dirty word in the said one and proposing assistance in finding a who is 48 and says he knows the talked about the country a if it was the last place in the world a Boss could Takt a Tough line with his own with a yearly turnover of about f i million would build a million Plant in he because we Trust More in your future than in the situation is an advantage but it is a temporary Host in u years in Germany i dont know if to be a private owner of Niy my business is not giving me the kind of return that would encourage me to invert at just about 10 Miles from rusts office is another Middle tiled Schmacher it manufacturer of  equipment with about ii million in sales last whose executive believe it will invest shortly in the Chicago there is less Fervour in the Lehmacher offices about the but the general Hans Gedrge voiced what a number of German businessmen Are i dont see terrorists and socialists behind every he but look at the every Loyee Here gets of working Days vacation a year we pay Marks in social benefits for every Mark we pay in and the unions have something More to say every year about How we run our Busi we  be getting involved with the United slates if the situation were promising but we see an Opportunity for and one for be when youre going into America youve got the feeling at least that its the one place where it int All going to blow hustling for the Yankee Deemark by David Minthorn associated press a West German invasion of the United Stales is under and american states Are competing furiously to get a piece of the Twenty two Stales or regions and 12 port authorities have established full time missions in West Germany to try to do Wrt some of the flood of Marks crossing the Atlantic to establish subsidiaries of German companies United Competition is said consular of Leer John West Germany  companies have been stung by the fall of the Dollar in which making their goods More expensive and less competitive in the their answer is to establish manufacturing or Assembly plants in German investment in real estate and securities were estimated at woo no icon last for the past three they Nave sur passed american investments in revers Post War my the up Ike a new More German Money moves la secretly Stuer Lair and other third the embassy holds Trade Day conferences on an we invite the German companies but keep toe names confidential until the Day of the said the state promoters try to beat the Competition by making offers the Competition Between Ohio and Pennsylvania for Volkswagen first Plant in the United states is a classic example of How germans can use the rivalry of Stales to their own the Magazine co Boj commented Pennsylvania did More to satisfy vow Boss tool Schmuecker de mands and got the the Sot Bem states like to Streu their cheap labor but those country boys cant Slack no to the highly dolled workers la be talk the representative of a mid Western North Carolina represent alive Hay Denney disputed laying one of the biggest surprises for German investors la our Pool of skilled there amazed at our vocational training pro he admitted that the 41 German firms that have located in his state were attracted by the lowest wage rate in the averaging an and the lowest Union Atlon Arm Burckhardt of twi West Pennsylvania Dis counted the unto notion the w German companies in our put of the state have avoided unions by of Fering workers some what better packages of benefits than unionized out fits i stress our German said Donald Burien of fifty percent of the january 197b states population claim German were looking for second tier the ones without big staffs to do development said John joint ventures which give germans Access to american sales organizations and proven markets Are the most popular Paul executive Secretary of the Ameri can chamber of Commerce in said the promoters sometimes makes claims their states cannot we perform he a German company comes to us and says and so promised i much electrical Power if Well locate our factory in their i happen to know there isl that much Mypta Power West of the i Tell get it in slates or regions with offices in West Germany in clude Mary new North southwestern puerto South Virginia and new England and Pennsylvania dosed their offices the port authorities represented Are the Delaware Massachi new new Yor knew Souh and Long Oakland and san the stars and stripes Poge 13