In the history of enterprise, Sophie Opel is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Sophie Opel as German entrepreneur (1840-1913).
Sophie Opel was born at Dornholzhausen in 1840. Her recorded nationality is Germany.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
She worked as entrepreneur.
Her recorded holdings include Opel.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
That the business was built from Germany shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Sophie Opel died in 1913, aged 73. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Holdings: Opel
