 In 1930, the "Rheinische Spritzguß-Werk GmbH" (today the Dynamit Nobel Kunststoff GmbH) was founded in Cologne.After the national-socialists took lead of the German government, and wished to develop a strong German defense industry, the Wehrmacht explicitly requested bigger ammunition manufacturing capacities.In order to do so, the "WASAG" and Dynamit Nobel founded the Deutsche Sprengchemie GmbH in 1934.