Category
page 1German company founders
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist (1816–1892)
Nicolaus Otto
German inventor (1832–1891)
Carl Zeiss
German optical physicist (1816–1888)
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)
Hugo Junkers
German aviation pioneer (1859–1935)
Rudolf Dassler
German businessman (1898–1974)
Willy Messerschmitt
German aircraft designer and manufacturer (1898-1978)
Ernst Udet
German flying ace (1896–1941)
Carl von Linde
German engineer (1842-1934)
Ernst Heinkel
aircraft designer and manufacturer (1888-1958)
Hugo Boss
German fashion designer (1885-1948)
Karl Hans Albrecht
German entrepreneur (1920-2014)
Claudius Dornier
German aerospace engineer and inventor (1884–1969)
Theo Albrecht
German entrepreneur (1922-2010)
August Oetker
German food scientist (1862-1918)
Friedrich Krupp
German entrepreneur
Dietmar Hopp
German businessman
Karl Rapp
German engineer (1882-1962)
Johann Georg Halske
German master mechanic (1814-1890)
Emil Rathenau
German businessman (1838-1915)
Hans Wilsdorf
German watchmaker (1881-1960)
Josef Neckermann
German entrepreneur and equestrian (1912-1992)
Hugo Stinnes
German politician (1870–1924)
Friedrich Bayer
German businessman (1825–1880)
Ludwig Bamberger
German politician (1823-1899)
August Borsig
German businessman, founder of Borsig-Werke (1804-1854)
Ludwig Bölkow
German aerospace engineer (1912–2003)
Bruno Tesch
German chemist, arrested by the British as a war criminal, tried, and executed (1890-1946)
Max Grundig
German engineer (1908–1989)
Hasso Plattner
German billionaire businessman and philanthropist (born 1944)
Andreas Stihl
engineer and important inventor in the area of chainsaws
August Thyssen
German industrialist (1842-1926)
Wolfgang Joop
German fashion designer
Friedrich Engelhorn
German businessman (1821–1902)
Carl Walther
German gunsmith (1858–1915)
Joseph Anton von Maffei
German industrialist (1790–1870)
Friedrich Soennecken
German inventor (1848–1919)
Carl Heinrich Theodor Knorr
German entrepreneur (1800-1875)
Jakob Fugger the Elder
German merchant (1398-1469)
Ludwig Roselius
German businessman (1874–1943)
Aloys Wobben
German businessman (1952–2021)
Carl von Thieme
German bankier (1844-1924)
Werner Otto
German entrepreneur (1909–2011)
Fritz Sennheiser
German businessman (1912–2010)
Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering
German businessman (1824–1889)
Wilhelm Emil Fein
German inventor (1842-1898)
Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck
German businessman (1830-1916)
Joseph Mendelssohn
German Jewish banker
Klaus Tschira
German businessman (1940-2015)
Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy
German chemist (1841-1880)
Hans Riegel
German businessman and inventor of the gummy bear (1893-1945)
Dirk Rossmann
German entrepreneur
Anton Philipp Reclam
publisher (1807-1896)
Richard Hartmann
German businessman (1809-1878)
Hermann Tietz
German businessman (1837-1907)
August Howaldt
German engineer (1809–1883)
Hermann Blohm
German entrepreneur and engineer (1848–1930)
Carl Tchilinghiryan
German businessman