Friedrich Krupp built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.
The record lists Friedrich Krupp as German entrepreneur.
Friedrich Krupp was born at Essen in 1787. His recorded nationality is Germany.
This was the age of chartered companies and long-distance trade, when a single voyage could make or ruin a house.
He worked as businessperson and entrepreneur.
Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.
That the business was built from Germany shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Friedrich Krupp died in 1826, aged 39. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
