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German industrialists
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The list German industrialists includes
Karl Benz, Gunther Quandt, Karl Rapp, Gottlieb Daimler and August Horch.
The list consists of 151 members.
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Karl Benz
German engine designer
Overview: Carl Friedrich Benz ( 25 November 1844 – 4 April 1929), was a German engine designer and automotive engineer. His Benz Patent Motorcar from 1885 is considered the first practical modern automobile and ...Date of birth: 25 November 1844Date of death: 4 April 1929Age: 84 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: InventorGender: Male
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Günther Quandt
German businessman
Overview: Günther Quandt (28 July 1881 – 30 December 1954) was a German industrialist who founded an industrial empire that today includes BMW and Altana (chemicals).Date of birth: 28 July 1881Date of death: 30 December 1954Age: 73 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: BusinessGender: Male 0
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Karl Rapp
German engineer
Overview: Karl Friedrich Rapp (24 September 1882 in Ehingen (Danube) – 26 May 1962 in Locarno) was a German founder and owner of the Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH in Munich. In time this company became BMW AG. He ...Date of birth: 24 September 1882Date of death: 26 May 1962Age: 79 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: Engineer 0
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Friedrich Alfred Krupp
German manufacturer and politician
Overview: Friedrich Alfred Krupp (17 February 1854 – 22 November 1902) was a German steel manufacturer and head of the company Krupp. He was the son of Alfred Krupp and inherited the family business when his father ...Date of birth: 17 February 1854Date of death: 22 November 1902Age: 48 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: BusinessGender: Male 0
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Harald Quandt
German businessman (1921–1967)
Overview: Harald Quandt (1 November 1921 – 22 September 1967) was a German industrialist, the son of industrialist Günther Quandt and Magda Behrend Rietschel. His parents divorced and his mother was later ...Date of birth: 1 November 1921Date of death: 22 September 1967Age: 45 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: BusinessGender: Male 0
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Reinhold Würth
German businessman
Overview: Reinhold Würth (born 20 April 1935) is a German billionaire businessman and art collector. He took over his father's tiny wholesale screw business at age 19 and built it into the Adolf Würth Group, which ... 0
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Johanna Quandt
German businessman
Overview: Johanna Maria Quandt (née Bruhn; 21 June 1926 – 3 August 2015) was a business woman and the widow of German industrialist Herbert Quandt, who resurrected BMW from bankruptcy. When she died in 2015 she ...Date of birth: 21 June 1926Date of death: 3 August 2015Age: 89 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: BusinessGender: Female 0
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Carl von Linde
German engineer and scientist
Overview: Carl Paul Gottfried Linde (11 June 1842 – 16 November 1934) was a German scientist, engineer, and businessman. He discovered a refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation ...Date of birth: 11 June 1842Date of death: 16 November 1934Age: 92 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: Inventor 0
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Gottlieb Daimler
German businessman
Overview: Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (17 March 1834 – 6 March 1900) was a German engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg, a federal state of the German Confederation) ...Date of birth: 17 March 1834Date of death: 6 March 1900Age: 65 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: InventorGender: Male 0
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Wilhelm Maybach
German businessman
Overview: Wilhelm Maybach (9 February 1846 – 29 December 1929) was an early German engine designer and industrialist. During the 1890s he was hailed in France, then the world centre for car production, as the "King ...Date of birth: 9 February 1846Date of death: 29 December 1929Age: 83 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: InventorGender: Male 0
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Ferdinand Porsche
Bohemian-German automotive engineer and inventor (1875–1951)
Overview: Ferdinand Porsche (3 September 1875 – 30 January 1951) was an Austrian-German automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche car company. He is best known for creating the first gasoline-electric hybrid ...Date of birth: 3 September 1875Date of death: 30 January 1951Age: 75 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: InventorGender: Male 0
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August Horch
German automobile engineer, founder of Audi
Overview: August Horch (12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi.Date of birth: 12 October 1868Date of death: 3 February 1951Age: 82 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: EngineerGender: Male 0
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Friedrich Engels
German political philosopher
Overview: Friedrich Engels ( ENG-(g)əlz, ), sometimes anglicised as Frederick Engels (28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895), was a German philosopher, historian, political scientist and revolutionary socialist. He was ...Date of birth: 28 November 1820Date of death: 5 August 1895Age: 74 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: PhilosopherGender: Male 0
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Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Airship commander
Overview: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (German: Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin; 8 July 1838 – 8 March 1917) was a German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships, founding the ...Date of birth: 8 July 1838Date of death: 8 March 1917Age: 78 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: BusinessGender: Male 0
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Bruno Tesch (chemist)
German chemistOverview: Bruno Emil Tesch (14 August 1890 – 16 May 1946) was a German chemist and entrepreneur. Together with Gerhard Peters and Walter Heerdt, he invented the insecticide Zyklon B. He was the owner of Tesch & ...Date of birth: 14 August 1890Date of death: 16 May 1946Age: 55 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: Chemist 0
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August Thyssen
German industrialist
Overview: August Thyssen (Eschweiler, 17 May 1842 – Landsberg Castle, Ratingen, near Kettwig, 4 April 1926) was a German industrialist.Date of birth: 17 May 1842Date of death: 4 April 1926Age: 83 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: BusinessGender: Male 0
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Martin Mutschmann
German politician
Overview: Martin Mutschmann (9 March 1879 – 14 February 1947) was the Nazi Regional Leader (Gauleiter) of the state of Saxony (Gau Saxony) during the time of the Third Reich.Date of birth: 9 March 1879Date of death: 14 February 1947Age: 67 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: Politician 0
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Herbert Quandt
German businessman
Overview: Herbert Werner Quandt (22 June 1910 – 2 June 1982) was a German industrialist who is regarded as having saved BMW when it was at the point of bankruptcy and made a huge profit in doing so.Date of birth: 22 June 1910Date of death: 2 June 1982Age: 71 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: BusinessGender: Male 0
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Stefan Quandt
German businessman
Overview: Stefan Quandt (born 9 May 1966) is a German billionaire heir, engineer and industrialist. 0
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Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
German foreign service official, businessman and accused war criminal (1870–1950)
Overview: Gustav Georg Friedrich Maria Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, nicknamed "Taffi", (7 August 1870 – 16 January 1950) ran the German Friedrich Krupp AG heavy industry conglomerate from 1909 until 1941. He was ...Date of birth: 7 August 1870Date of death: 16 January 1950Age: 79 (age at death)Nationality: German 0
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