List of German entrepreneurs
This is a list of German entrepreneurs, businesspeople of German nationality or with German citizenship.
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- Karl Albrecht (1920-2014) and Theo Albrecht (1922-2010), founder of Aldi
- Ludwig Bamberger (1823-1899), co-founder of Deutsche Bank
- John Jacob Bausch (1830–1926), co-founder of Bausch & Lomb, makers of contact lenses and Ray-Ban sunglasses
- Friedrich Bayer (1825–1880), founder of what would become Bayer, a chemical and pharmaceutical company
- Paul Carl Beiersdorf (1836–1896), founded Beiersdorf AG, manufacturers of Nivea, Eucerin
- Melitta Bentz (1873–1950), invented the coffee filter and started Melitta, manufacturers of coffee, paper coffee filters and coffee makers
- Karl Benz (1844–1929), inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile; co-founder of the automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz
- Maximilian Delphinius Berlitz (1852–1921), founder of Berlitz Language Schools
- Carl Bertelsmann (1791–1850), founder of Bertelsmann AG, subsidiaries include Random House and BMG
- Johann Adam Birkenstock, in 1774 founded Birkenstock shoe company
- August Borsig (1804-1854), founder of Borsig Werke
- Robert Bosch (1861–1942), industrialist, engineer and inventor; founder of Robert Bosch GmbH
- Hugo Boss (1885–1948), fashion designer, founder of Hugo Boss AG
- Max Braun (1883–1967), founder of Braun GmbH, makers of personal care appliances, coffee makers and other home appliances
- Adolphus Busch (1839–1913), co-founder of Anheuser-Busch brewing company
- Adolph Coors (1847–1929), founder of the Adolph Coors Company brewery, now part of MillerCoors
- Gottlieb Daimler (1834–1900), inventor and engineer; founder of Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, now Daimler-Benz AG
- Adolf Dassler (1900–1978), founder of sportswear company Adidas
- Rudolf Dassler (1898–1974), founder of sportwear company Puma
- Adelbert Delbrück (1822-1899), co-founder of Deutsche Bank
- Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck (1830-1916), founder of company Schlesische AG für Bergbau und Zinkhüttenbetrieb
- Friedrich Engelhorn (1821–1902), founder of the chemical company BASF
- Kaspar Faber (1730–1784), founder of Faber-Castell, manufacturers of office supplies, art supplies, writing instruments and leather goods
- Günther Fielmann (born 1939), founder of Fielmann
- Eduard Fresenius (1874-1946), founder of Fresenius
- Jakob Fugger the Elder (1368-1469), founder of Fugger bank
- Marcus Goldman (1821-1904), co-founder of Goldman Sachs
- Max Grundig (1908-1989), fouder of Grundig
- Richard Hellmann (1876–1971), founder of Hellmann's Mayonnaise
- Johann Peter Henckels, founder of (Zwilling) J.A. Henckels, manufacturers of kitchen knives, scissors, cookware and flatware
- Friedrich Karl Henkel (1848-1930), founder of Henkel
- August Horch (1868–1951), founder of Audi automobile company in 1909
- Rudolph Karstadt (1856-1944), founder of Karstadt
- Carl Kellner, founder of Ernst Leitz GmbH, which later became Leica Camera AG, Leica Geosystems AG, and Leica Microsystems AG, producing cameras, geosurvey equipment and microscopes
- Friedrich Krupp (1787–1826), steel manufacturer and founder of the steel producers ThyssenKrupp AG
- Henry Lehman (1822-1855), Emanuel Lehman (1827-1907) and Mayer Lehman (1830-1897), German-born bankers, co-founders of Lehman Brothers
- Carl von Linde (1842-1934), founder of The Linde Group
- Henry Lomb (1828–1908), co-founder of Bausch & Lomb
- Oscar Ferdinand Mayer (1859–1955), founder of the processed-meat firm Oscar Mayer
- Friedrich Jacob Merck (1621-1678), founder of Merck KGaA (Engel-Apotheke in Darmstadt)
- Georg(e) Merck (1867–1926), founder of Merck & Co.
- Joseph Mendelssohn (1770-1848), founder of former bank Mendelssohn & Co.
- Heinrich Meyerfreund, founder of Garoto, a chocolate company in Brazil
- Carl Miele (1869–1938), founder of Miele, a manufacturer of domestic appliances
- Frederick Miller (born as Friedrich Eduard Johannes Müller) (1824–1888), founder of the Miller Brewing Company in 1855
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- Josef Neckermann (1912-1992), founder of the company Neckermann
- August Oetker (1862-1918), founder of the company Dr Oetker
- Adam Opel (1837–1895), founder of the automobile company Adam Opel AG
- Salomon Oppenheim (1772-1828), founder of bank Sal. Oppenheim
- Ernest Oppenheimer (1880-1957), diamond and gold mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa
- Werner Otto (1909–2011), founder of Otto GmbH, now Otto Group, a mail order company
- Ferdinand Porsche (1875–1951), designer and founder of Porsche
- Günther Quandt (1881-1954), industrial, entrepreneur of different companies (today includes BMW AG and Altana (chemicals)
- Karl Friedrich Rapp (1882–1962), co-founder of Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH, which later became BMW AG
- Emil Rathenau (1838-1915), founder of AEG
- Paul Reuter (1816–1899), pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting; founder of Reuters news agency
- Hans Riegel, Sr. (1893–1945), founder of Haribo, the manufacturer of gummi and jelly sweets
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836), founder of british company N M Rothschild & Sons
- Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering (1824–1889), founder of the pharmaceutical company Schering AG
- Anton Schlecker (born 1944), founder of Schlecker
- Ernst Schmidt and Wilhelm Schmidt-Ruthenbeck (1906-1988), founders of Metro AG
- Fritz Sennheiser (1912–2010), founder of Sennheiser Electronic GmbH & Co. KG, specializing in high fidelity products
- Georg von Siemens (1839-1901), co-founder of Deutsche Bank
- Werner von Siemens (1816–1892), inventor, founder of Siemens, the electronics and electrical engineering company
- J.S. Staedtler, in 1835 founded Staedtler Mars GmbH & Co. KG, suppliers of writing, artist, and engineering drawing instruments
- Henry E. Steinway (1797–1871), founder of the piano company Steinway & Sons
- Hugo Stinnes (1870-1924), co-founder of Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG
- August Storck-Oberwelland, in 1903 founder of Werther's Sugar Confectionery Factory, now August Storck AG
- Franz Ströher (born c. 1854-1936), in 1880 founded cosmetics company Wella AG
- Carl von Thieme (1844–1924), founder of Allianz AG, a financial services company
- August Thyssen (1842-1926), founder of Walzwerk Thyssen & Co. in Mülheim an der Ruhr
- Friedrich Thyssen (1804-1877), founder of Draht-Fabrik-Compagnie in Aachen
- Hermann Tietz (1837-1907), founder of Hertie, a department store
- Leopold Ullstein (1826-1899), founder of publishing company Ullstein Verlag
- Moses Marcus Warburg and Gerson Warburg, co-founder of M. M. Warburg & Co., German bank
- Siegmund Warburg, founder of S. G. Warburg & Co., British bank
- Bartholomeus V. Welser (1484-1561), Welser brothers bank
- Georg Wertheim (1857-1939), founder of Wertheim, a department store
- Carl Zeiss (1816–1888), founder of Carl Zeiss AG, a maker of optical instruments
- Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838–1917), inventor of the Zeppelin; founder of the Zeppelin Airship company
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