Category
page 119th-century German businesspeople
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
Heinrich Schliemann
German businessman and archaeologist (1822–1890)
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist (1816–1892)
Ernst Abbe
German physicist (1840-1905)
Nicolaus Otto
German inventor (1832–1891)
Carl Zeiss
German optical physicist (1816–1888)
Robert Bosch
German industrialist, inventor, engineer (1861-1942)
Bertha Benz
German automobile pioneer, with husband Karl Benz (1849–1944)
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
German banker (1744–1812)
Wilhelm Maybach
German engine designer and industrialist (1846–1929)
Paul Reuter
German-Jewish-born British entrepreneur and news agency founder (1816–1899)
Cosima Wagner
daughter of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt and wife of Hans von Bülow and Richard Wagner (1837-1930)
Carl von Linde
German engineer (1842-1934)
Nathan Mayer Rothschild
German-born British financier (1777–1836)
Julius Dorpmüller
German politician and railway manager (1869-1945)
Alfred Krupp
German entrepreneur and inventor (1812–1887)
Margarete Steiff
foundress of Margarete Steiff GmbH in Germany
Max Skladanowsky
German inventor and early filmmaker (1863–1939)
Amschel Mayer Rothschild
German banker (1773-1855)
Nannette Streicher
German piano maker, composer, music educator, and writer
August Oetker
German food scientist (1862-1918)
James Mayer de Rothschild
French banker (1792–1868)
Friedrich Krupp
German entrepreneur
Eugen Langen
German businessman (1833–1895)
Johann Georg Halske
German master mechanic (1814-1890)
Emil Rathenau
German businessman (1838-1915)
Friedrich Bayer
German businessman (1825–1880)
Paul Mauser
German weapon designer and manufacturer (1838-1914)
Carl Mayer von Rothschild
German-Italian banker
Ludwig Bamberger
German politician (1823-1899)
Alfred Beit
German born businessman and mining magnate in South Africa (1853-1906)
Rudolph Koenig
German physicist (1832–1901)
Gerson von Bleichröder
German banker (1822–1893)
August Thyssen
German industrialist (1842-1926)
Friedrich Engelhorn
German businessman (1821–1902)
Salomon Heine
German banker
Carl Walther
German gunsmith (1858–1915)
Friedrich Soennecken
German inventor (1848–1919)
Joseph Anton von Maffei
German industrialist (1790–1870)
Wilhelm Mauser
German weapon designer (1834–1882)
Israel Jacobson
German-Jewish philanthropist and communal organiser (1768–1828)
Ernst Oppert
German businessman (1832-1903)
Carl Heinrich Theodor Knorr
German entrepreneur (1800-1875)
Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann
German musical instrument maker (1805-1864)
Ferdinand Schichau
German engineer (1814-1896)
Georg Krauss
German businessman (1826-1906)
Friedrich Siemens
German entrepreneur (1826–1904)
Carl von Thieme
German bankier (1844-1924)
Wilhelm Emil Fein
German inventor (1842-1898)
James Simon
German Jewish entrepreneur and art collector (1851-1932)
Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy
German chemist (1841-1880)
Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering
German businessman (1824–1889)
Karoline Kaulla
German court Jew
Amalie Hohenester
August Howaldt
German engineer (1809–1883)
Juan Nicolás Böhl de Faber
German hispanist
Georg Gothein
German politician (1857-1940)
Max Spohr
German publisher (1850–1905)
Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy
German trader, blackbirder and Hanseat (1813-1885)
Hermann Tietz
German businessman (1837-1907)