region of Württemberg on the banks Lake Constance, where he was educated by private tutors before attending the polytechnic at Stuttgart. After beginning his career in the army of Württemberg he was released

same site. By 1852, the factory employed 250 people. In 1859, Wahren acquired a weaving mill at Viksberg and began exporting to Russia under the company name Forssa. In 1861, he added workshops for printing

consulting for governments and entrepreneurs. He was influential in the revival of the iron industry at Erzberg, west of Graz, recommending opencast mining, well-organised charcoal supplies and mineral railways

spinning fibres to finished goods. He was born at Wiesenbach in Bavaria to a family of dyers from Württemberg. His father opened a workshop printing cloth at Aarau in Switzerland and Oberkampf decided at 18

Gebrüder Liebieg, and in 1828 they bought a dyeing factory for woollen yarn at Liberec (then Reichenberg) in Bohemia. Johann travelled around France and Britain observing textile businesses and expanded

of his first wife, Knorr met Amalie Henriette Caroline Seyffardt on a visit to Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg, where her father was a leading merchant. They married and opened a grocery and colonial goods

made engines for Zeppelins and luxury cars. He was born at Heilbronn in the German Kingdom of Württemberg and brought up there and in Stuttgart. He was orphaned at the age of 10 and grew up at the Bruderhaus [...] Ferdinand Von Zeppelin to make engines for airships under the name Luftfahrzeug-Motoren-GmbH, first in Württemberg and then at Friedrichshafen. In 1912 the company became Maybach-Motorenbau. However, airship production

The Wallenberg family have been the leading business family in Sweden since the mid-nineteenth century. The business dynasty was begun by André Oscar Wallenberg and its business was expanded by his son [...] their many businesses employed more than a third of Sweden’s industrial workforce. André Oscar Wallenberg (1816-1886) was the son of the bishop of Linköping and served in the navy until he was aged 35 [...] Kreditaktiebolaget. He was also a member of parliament and newspaper owner. André’s son Knut Agathon Wallenberg (1853-1938) led the Enskilda bank after his father’s death. He was also a politician and Swedish

weavers’ guild. When he was prosecuted he moved to Heidenheim an der Brenz in Württemberg and set up the Württembergische Cattunmanufactur. In 1768 his dispute with the Augsburg weavers’ guild was settled [...] export business. At its peak in the 1770s it employed 3,500 people. He was born at Künzelsau in Württemberg where his father was a nail smith. Aged 11 he began an apprenticeship with a haberdasher in Strasbourg

the son of a doctor and born in the small town of Laage near Rostock. He was apprenticed to the Riga-Dünaberg railway from the age of seventeen to nineteen before studying engineering in Hanover. He worked

cobalt blue pigment in Norway around the mid-nineteenth century. He was born in the Prussian city of Königsberg on the Baltic (now Kaliningrad been in Russia), where he was educated and apprenticed in business

Pottendorf near Vienna. Investment came from the 'Leih und Wechsel Bank' created by Prince Joseph II Schwarzenberg. From 1802 until 1843 Thornton was director and part-owner of the mill at Pottendorf. It employed

took sole control in 1871. Stumm-Halberg carefully but steadily expanded the company into a market leader in the German steel industry. The three ironworks at Fischbacker, Halberg and Neunkirchen produced [...] production increased to some 270,000 tons of pig iron by 1901. At this time Stumm-Halberg employed over 8,000 people. Stumm-Halberg had a dominating approach to personnel: he banned union membership and certain [...] Carl Ferdinand Stumm (later von Stumm-Halberg) was a German steel magnate and politician. He expanded his long-established family business, Gebrüder Stumm (Stumm Brothers) and become one of the richest

Wiethe colliery to gain practical knowledge. He began studies at the technical university of Charlottenberg but for a management role in the family mines in 1890 following his father’s death. In 1892,

IV and she became Johanna Gryzik von Schomberg-Godulla. In 1858 she married Schaffgotsch; she was 16 and the count was 27. They lived in Wrocłav, at the Schomberg palace and at a castle they bought and [...] Johanna to live with Emilie Lukas, a housekeeper to the industrialist Karl Godulla at his mansion, Schomberg Palace. Godulla owned the largest industrial empire in the German states during the early nineteenth

Gryzik, who was aged 6 when he died. At the age of 16 Johanna was given a title as Gryzik von Schomberg-Godulla, taking the names of her benefactor and the great house that he built. She married Count Hans-Ulrich

capital of his own but in 1904-5 he created two new companies with large-scale capital from the Wallenberg family of Sweden and other investors. He was director-general of both. One was Elkem (Det Norske

and steamships. It opened additional machine foundries at Leesdorf in Austria and Ravensburg in Württemberg. It also opened more factories for cotton, flax and paper manufacture and created the Zurich steamship

pioneered railway building in Germany. He designed the country’s first main-line railway, between Nürnberg and Fürth, opened in 1835. By the time that he retired in 1866 he had built nearly 1,000 km of railways [...] appointed as the engineer of the Ludwig Railway for 6 km to link the important commercial centres of Nuremberg and Fürth in Bavaria. Completed the following year, this was the first steam-hauled railway for

Nikiszowiec Settlement (in Katowice) Poland, Puerta de Sagunto in Spain and Marga Garden City (Senftenberg), Hellerau (Dreden) and Margarethenhőhe (Essen) in Germany. Howard died at Letchworth in 1928,