Richard von Kühlmann built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.
The record lists Richard von Kühlmann as German diplomat and industrialist (1873-1948).
Richard von Kühlmann was born at Constantinople in 1873. His recorded nationality is Germany. He was educated at Leipzig University and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as diplomat, politician and author.
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.
Richard von Kühlmann died in 1948, aged 75. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Educated at Leipzig University and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
