At the end of the nineteenth century, August Thyssen and his brother Josef, both descendants of the famous Thyssen family, were eager to produce their own coal and process it into coke as fuel for their blast furnaces. That is why they acquired an increasing share in the 'Gewerkschaft Deutscher Kaiser' coal mine in Duisburg from the 1880s onwards.
Thyssen's mining empire was renamed Zeche Friedrich Thyssen in 1926, a tribute to their father, Thyssen, who founded the steel company named after him. The coal mine was expanded with coke ovens and mine sites throughout Hamborn, a sub-municipality of Duisburg. However, in 1976, Zeche Friedrich Thyssen's was closed down.
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