ABSTRACT
In the reigns of Frederick William I and Frederick II of Prussia the house of Splitgerber and Daum rose to the position of one of the leading mercantile, financial and industrial undertakings in Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg. The firm was engaged in a variety of enterprises and it played an important part in promoting the expansion of the production of metal goods, cutlery and refined sugar in Prussia. It was, however, as armament manufacturers and army contractors that Splitgerber and Daum made their greatest contribution to the rise of Prussia in the eighteeneth century. 1
