Entrepreneurial family
As business families are families referred to one or more companies perform in several family generations. Some family associations reach 500 members and more, for example the Brenninkmeijer and Haniel families .
Examples
Belgium
- Piedbœuf , steam boiler and brewing
Germany
- Alsberg , department stores
- Amya , copper master family
- Bagel , Publishing and Printing
- Bohlen and Halbach , iron and steel
- Bosch (family) , consumer goods, industrial and building technology
- Boßler , passenger shipping, freight transport on inland waterways and logistics
- Brenninkmeijer , textiles
- Droege , management consultancy and participation
- Finck , banks, real estate and more
- Spark , media, s. a. Grotkamp
- Götz , freight transport on inland waterways and container logistics
- Guilleaume , rope, wire and cable manufacture
- Haniel , trade
- Harkort , manufacturing
- Henkel , consumer goods and chemicals
- Herder , publishers
- Heusch / Hoesch , needle manufacturers, metal processing, large-scale industry
- Holtzbrinck , publishers, media
- Howaldt , Shipbuilding and Power Generation
- Jacobs , groceries and temporary work
- Velcro , publishers
- Krupp , steel
- Merck , chemistry and pharmacy
- Oetker , groceries
- Opel , automobile manufacturing
- Oppenheim , banking
- Pastor , cloth and needle manufacturer, metal processing
- Peltzer , copper master family, cloth manufacturers
- Piedbœuf , metalworking
- Poensgen , metal processing, large-scale industry
- Prym , copper master family
- Quandt , automotive engineering
- Reemtsma , tobacco products
- Reimann , cleaning agents, coffee and tea, various industries
- Scheibler , cloth manufacturer
- Schleicher , copper master family
- Schoeller , cloth, paper and sugar manufacturers, metal processing, large-scale industry
- Siemens , industry
- Thyssen , steel
- von Trier , Glockergie family
- Waibel , inland shipping and port holdings, building materials trade, recycling and container logistics
- Werhahn , conglomerate
- Weitbrecht , publishing family
- Wirtz , pharmacy
Austria
- Mayr-Melnhof
- Reininghaus
- Schoeller , sugar industry, metal processing, banking
- Seidl , textiles
Sweden
Switzerland
- Buhler
- Schoeller , cloth and worsted yarn manufacturers
- Schmidheiny
United States
- Astor
- kennedy
- Rockefeller
- Rothschild , banking
See also
literature
- Michael Schäfer: Family businesses and entrepreneurial families: On the social and economic history of the Saxon entrepreneurs 1850-1940 , CHBECK, 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56211-2
- Harold James : Family Business in Europe. Haniel, Wendel and Falck. 2005, CH Beck Verlag, ISBN 978-3-406-53510-9