Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering

German businessman (1824–1889)

In the history of enterprise, Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering as German businessman (1824–1889).

Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering was born at Prenzlau in 1824. His recorded nationality is Germany.

Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.

He worked as pharmacist and entrepreneur.

His recorded affiliations include Schering AG.

Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.

That the business was built from Germany shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering died in 1889, aged 65. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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