He was instrumental in rebuilding the bomb-damaged Opel factories in Germany before returning to the finance staff as treasurer in 1951.
In addition to the advantageous geographic situation, an Opel factory was opened in 1982 in Figueruelas, a small village nearby.
Germany: Bochum, Eisenach, Kaiserslautern and Rüsselsheim (Opel factories), employed 25,103 workers.
The camp was quite near an Opel factory dismounted in East Germany and now slowly rusting.
The company further rankled workers by not dispatching an executive to the Opel factory in Bochum to explain its decision.
General Motors's long-held view has been that because the German government took command of Opel factories in the war, compensation was its responsibility.
A good number of the employees found work in the newly created Opel factory, opened in Eisenach in 1992.
He graduated in June 1921 and took a job with the Opel factory.
Initial production of the Astra will take place at the Opel factory in West Germany, with production set to be transferred to Britain by 1981.
Ypsilanti grew up in Rüsselsheim as the daughter of a worker at the local Opel factory.