In the history of enterprise, Heinrich Nordhoff is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Heinrich Nordhoff as German businessman (1899–1968).
Heinrich Nordhoff was born at Hildesheim in 1899. His recorded nationality is Germany. He was educated at Technische Universität Berlin.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the corporation became the dominant economic form, along with the antitrust politics that followed it.
He worked as entrepreneur, university teacher and engineer.
His recorded affiliations include TU Braunschweig, BMW and Opel.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
Recognition followed: Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Lower Saxony Honorary Medal, Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great and Royal Order of Vasa.
That the business was built from Germany shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Heinrich Nordhoff died in 1968, aged 69. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Lower Saxony Honorary Medal
- Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great
- Royal Order of Vasa
- Knight in the Order of the Holy Sepulchre
- Affiliated with TU Braunschweig, BMW and Opel
- Educated at Technische Universität Berlin
