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Max Herz (1905–1965), co-founder of Tchibo. Ernst Heinkel (1888–1958), founder of Heinkel, manufacturer of airplanes. Richard Hellmann (1876–1971), founder of Hellmann's Mayonnaise. Friedrich Karl Henkel (1848–1930), founder of Henkel. J.A. Henckels, manufacturers of kitchen knives, scissors, cookware and flatware.
Kaspar Faber (1730–1784), founder of Faber-Castell, manufacturers of office supplies, art supplies, writing instruments and leather goods. Günther Fielmann (born 1939), founder of Fielmann. Wilhelm von Finck (1848–1924), co-founder of Munich Re and Allianz. Eduard Fresenius (1874–1946), founder of Fresenius.
Adolf Dassler. Adolf " Adi " Dassler (3 November 1900 – 6 September 1978) was a German cobbler, inventor, member of the Nazi party, and businessman who founded the German sportswear company Adidas. He was also the younger brother of Rudolf Dassler, founder of Puma. Dassler was an innovator in athletic shoe design and one of the early ...
Manfred von Ardenne in 1933. Ernst Abbe: Invented the first refractometer, and many other devices. Donated his shares in the company Carl Zeiss to form Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung, still in existence today. Franz Carl Achard: Developed a process to produce sugar from sugar beet. Built the first factory for the process in 1802.
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun ( US: / ˌvɜːrnər vɒn ˈbraʊn / VUR-nər von BROWN, German: [ˌvɛʁnheːɐ̯ fɔn ˈbʁaʊ̯n]; 23 March 1912 – 16 June 1977) was a German-American aerospace engineer [3] and space architect. He was a member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS, the leading figure in the development of rocket ...
The list of early Germanic peoples is a register of ancient Germanic cultures, tribal groups, and other alliances of Germanic tribes and civilisations in ancient times. This information comes from various ancient historical documents, beginning in the 2nd century BC and extending into late antiquity. By the Early Middle Ages, early forms of ...
American writer Mark Twain (1835−1910) German inventions and discoveries are ideas, objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, by Germans. Often, things discovered for the first time are also called inventions and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two. German-born Albert Einstein, world-famous physicist Germany has been the home ...
Hermann Föttinger (1877–1945), engineer and inventor. Peter Henlein (1485–1542), locksmith and clockmaker who invented the world's first watch. Andre Kaup, electrical engineer at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Karl Küpfmüller (1897–1977), electrical engineer who worked in communications technology.