Paul-Louis Weiller is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.
The record lists Paul-Louis Weiller as French industrialist, art collector and philanthropist (1893–1993).
Paul-Louis Weiller was born at 8th arrondissement of Paris in 1893. His recorded nationality is France. He was educated at École Centrale Paris and Lycée Carnot.
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 businessperson, aircraft pilot and art collector.
What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.
Recognition followed: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1989), Resistance Medal (1946), Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy and Commander of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus.
That the business was built from France shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Paul-Louis Weiller died in 1993, aged 100. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour — 1989
- Resistance Medal — 1946
- Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy
- Commander of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
- Educated at École Centrale Paris and Lycée Carnot
