Category
page 120th-century German businesspeople
Oskar Schindler
German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer (1908–1974)
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
German general and airship pioneer (1838–1917)
Robert Bosch
German industrialist, inventor, engineer (1861-1942)
Adolf Dassler
German entrepreneur, founder of Adidas shoe company (1900–1978)
Bertha Benz
German automobile pioneer, with husband Karl Benz (1849–1944)
Hugo Junkers
German aviation pioneer (1859–1935)
Wilhelm Maybach
German engine designer and industrialist (1846–1929)
Rudolf Dassler
German businessman (1898–1974)
Willy Messerschmitt
German aircraft designer and manufacturer (1898-1978)
Carl von Linde
German engineer (1842-1934)
Otto Heinrich Frank
father of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank (1889–1980)
Ernst Heinkel
aircraft designer and manufacturer (1888-1958)
Hugo Boss
German fashion designer (1885-1948)
Karl Hans Albrecht
German entrepreneur (1920-2014)
Albert Göring
German engineer, businessman, and the younger brother of Hermann Göring (1895-1966)
Melitta Bentz
German entrepreneur and inventor of the coffee filter (1873–1950)
Susanne Klatten
German businesswoman
Franz Seldte
German politician (1882-1947)
Christine Kaufmann
German actress and businesswoman (1945-2017)
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia
Prince of Prussia (1907-1994)
Claudius Dornier
German aerospace engineer and inventor (1884–1969)
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
German industrialist (1907–1967)
Theo Albrecht
German entrepreneur (1922-2010)
Max Skladanowsky
German inventor and early filmmaker (1863–1939)
Otto Hofmann
Austrian-born German SS general, head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office (1896-1982)
Harald Quandt
German businessman (1921–1967)
August Oetker
German food scientist (1862-1918)
Jil Sander
German fashion designer (born 1943)
Martin Luther
German diplomat (1895-1945)
Karl Rapp
German engineer (1882-1962)
Hans Riegel
German businessman, badminton player (1923–2013)
Andy Bechtolsheim
German electrical engineer (born 1955)
Dietmar Hopp
German businessman
Johanna Quandt
German businesswoman (1926-2015)
Dieter Schwarz
German entrepreneur
Hans Wilsdorf
German watchmaker (1881-1960)
Emil Rathenau
German businessman (1838-1915)
Josef Neckermann
German entrepreneur and equestrian (1912-1992)
Jean Bugatti
Italian engineer (1909-1939)
Paul Mauser
German weapon designer and manufacturer (1838-1914)
Käthe Kruse
Dollmaker (1883-1968)
Hugo Stinnes
German politician (1870–1924)
Günther Quandt
German businessman, Nazi, important Hitler supporter (1881-1954)
Max Grundig
German engineer (1908–1989)
Carl Duisberg
German chemist (1861–1935)
Johannes, 11th Prince of Thurn and Taxis
German prince (1926-1990)
Bruno Tesch
German chemist, arrested by the British as a war criminal, tried, and executed (1890-1946)
Carl Friedrich von Siemens
German businessman (1872-1941)
Herbert Quandt
German businessman (1910–1982)
Rudolf August Oetker
German businessman, art collector, Nazi Waffen SS (1916-2007)
Hasso Plattner
German billionaire businessman and philanthropist (born 1944)
August Thyssen
German industrialist (1842-1926)
Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler
German landowner, business manager and politician (1928-2011)
Carl Walther
German gunsmith (1858–1915)
Wolfgang Porsche
German-Austrian businessman
Otto Wagener
German general (1888-1971)
Carl F. W. Borgward
German engineer and designer and the creator of the Borgward group, based in Bremen
Kurt Landauer
German association football executive (1884-1961)
Rudolf von Ribbentrop
German SS officer (1921–2019)
Stefan Quandt
German businessman