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Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, KBE (19 April 1866 – 4 February 1939) was one of the first executives of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and was its general manager for 36 years, from 1900 to 1936, and was also chairman of the combined Royal Dutch/Shell oil company. He succeeded the founder of Royal Dutch, Jean Baptiste August Kessler, when ...
Oct 1, 2016 · Learn how the founder of Royal Dutch Shell, Sir Henri Deterding, was honored with a state funeral by Hitler and the Nazis in 1939. See the details of the ceremony, the wreaths, the tributes, and the controversy surrounding his legacy.
Royal Dutch Shell founder Sir Henri Deterding was by far the largest single donor, sending 7,000 railway wagons full of Dutch food produce. Despite criticism in the news media, specifically linking the money saved on food to Nazi rearmament, Deterding continued to donate Dutch food to Nazi Germany. By John Donovan.
Aug 26, 2018 · The Sturmabteilung (SA) – “Stormtroopers,” was the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party and played an important role in Hitler’s rise to power. SA men were known as “brownshirts.” Sir Henri Deterding was linked to the SA. He secretly backed the SA in return for preferential treatment of Shell’s business interests in Germany.
Learn how Henri Deterding, a take-no-prisoners oilman, joined forces with Marcus Samuel, Jr., an unorthodox Jewish merchant trader, to topple the Standard Oil empire. Breaking Rockefeller is a non-fiction book by Peter Doran that traces their rise and fall in the oil industry.
Dec 4, 2003 · A book review of Paul Hendrix's Sir Henri Deterding and Royal Dutch-Shell: Changing Control of World Oil, 1900-1940. The reviewer praises the book for its primary sources but criticizes its lack of context and editing.
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Sir Henri Deterding, who was spending the winter at his villa near Suvretta, at St. Moritz, died suddenly on Saturday from angina pectoris, telegraphs our Geneva Correspondent. His death is causing great grief at St. Moritz, where his generosity and kindness had made him very popular.
