Occupation of the Ruhr important harbour in Duisburg-Ruhrort, ending French occupation of the Ruhr region on 25 August 1925. According to Sally Marks, the occupation of the Ruhr "was profitable and caused neither the German hyperinflation, which began in 1922 and ballooned because of German responses to the Ruhr occupation, nor the franc's 1924 collapse, which arose from French financial practices and the evaporation of reparations". Marks suggests the profits, after Ruhr-Rhineland occupation costs, were nearly 900 million gold marks. Despite his disagreements with Britain, Poincaré desired to preserve the Anglo-French entente and thus moderated his aims to a degree. His major goal was
University Hospitals of the Ruhr-University of Bochum University Hospitals of the Ruhr-University of Bochum The University hospitals of the Ruhr University of Bochum, German "Universitätsklinikum der Ruhr-Universität Bochum", abbreviated "UK RUB" is a syndicate of six university hospitals and associated facilities of the Ruhr University of Bochum. Founded in 2008 by the merger of formally independent hospitals the UK RUB is now a major provider of health in the Ruhr Metropolitan Region treating over 400,000 patients per year with a strong commitment to research and teaching. The "Universitätsklinikum der Ruhr-Universität Bochum" emerged from the Bochum Model, where several non state-owned hospitals in Bochum and the surrounding metropolitan