Kehrl set up four ‘voluntary’ syndicates, one for each of the major textile-producing regions of Germany: Silesia, Saxony, Thuringia and the Rhineland. Each syndicate subscribed 4 million Reichsmarks of capital towards the construction of a new synthetic fibre plant, each with a minimum capacity of 7,000 tons per annum. There can be no doubt that political pressure played an important role in this subscription drive.
