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to weld, but also nothing to laugh about. There would be
no thin film evaporators and no krill fishing ship Juvel.
(Which should make the krill very happy, at least.)
There would be no DSI at Thailand, no MWB shipyard
in Bremerhaven, and not even a single, last – oops!
I almost wrote Mohican instead of – which leads me to
the inspiring thought: The last steel worker. – Doesn’t
sound so bad after all. I’ll keep it in mind as a novel
idea. The core of the plot: the long-term preservation
of Germany’s steel industry base in the face of rapidly
emerging, underground competition from Russia, India
and China, which are forming themselves into modern
economical powers.
Back to the facts: Steel is of elementary importance.
Not only for Germany or Europe. For the entire
world. Especially for that of men. Because in a man’s
world without steel, we could neither steel ourselves nor
become as hard as the steel cast at Friedrich Krupp AG
in Essen. Instead of such personality development – from
youth to iron man – we would have to find our way in
the classic male role: as a real German oak. Which, however,
is female by its word type, i.e., its gender word in
traditional German grammar: the oak. Moreover, it has
34 fewer chromosomes than a human being. So why
become a real German oak? To regress in the course of
becoming a man? From 46 chromosomes back to 12? –
Anyway, doesn’t matter.
The main thing is to be a guy like a typical German
heraldic tree. Single-sex, with a strong, towering trunk
and rough bark; a wide-spreading crown that defies
every storm; bearing pendulous inflorescences in spring
and dense deciduous foliage in the middle of the year;
easily recognizable by its fruit: the acorn. Throughout
its long life, the German oak remains faithful to its
God-ordained place in life. With increasing age, it
reverently bends its branches down to its roots. To the
place from which the crown once sprouted. What a real
German oak has to do until someone comes along, cuts