In the history of enterprise, Henryk Grohman is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Henryk Grohman as Polish businessman (1862–1939).
Henryk Grohman was born at Łódź in 1862.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as art collector, industrialist and entrepreneur.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
Henryk Grohman died in 1939, aged 77. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
