Preface Chapter 1
Notes Preface 1. Pierenkemper, Unternehmensgeschichte; Pierenkemper, Was kann, ZfU 44 (1999), 15–31; Pohl, Zwischen Weihrauch ZfU 44 (1999), 150–63; Pierenkemper, Sechs Thesen, ZfU 45 (2000), 158–66. 2. Berghoff: Zwischen Kleinstadt und Weltmarkt. 3. Examples: Feldman, Die Allianz; Lorentz, Industrieelite; James, Deutsche Bank. 4. Example: Gall, Deutsche Bank. 5. During the last few years, company histories have belonged to some of the most important historical publications from Germany’s best-known historians. See the history on von Krupp written by Gall, Tenfelde, Abelshauser and Pierenkämper: Gall, Krupp. 6. Borscheid, Der ökonomische Kern, ZfU 46 (2001), 5–11. 7. North, Institutions; Williamson, Die ökonomischen Institutionen; Richter/Furubotn, Neue Institutionenökonomik. 8. Wilhelm von Siemens, Allgemeines undated (probably 1900–10). Siemensarchiv Munich, SAA, LD 144,2. See Dienel, Herrschaft, p. 110. 9. Feldman, Hugo Stinnes, p. IX. 10. Important examples: Heuss, Robert Bosch; Manchester, Krupp. 11. One example is the history of the Quandt family, a major BMW shareholder: Jungbluth, Die Quandts. 12. Heller’s study was certainly contracted by the company in order to contrast the portrayal given by the ‘Independent Expert Commission of Switzerland in the Second World War’. Heller, Zwischen Unternehmertum. 13. Seidl’s study neglected the internal confl icts that affected the networks involved with industrial reconstruction. Seidl, Die Bayerischen Motorenwerke. 14. Mommsen/Grieger, Das Volkswagenwerk. 15. Tilly, Großunternehmen, GuG 19 (1993), 531. 16. Linde was ennobled in 1897 for his efforts. His name changed to Carl von Linde. In the following, I will use the name ‘Carl von Linde’, although Linde himself rarely made use of the title (cf.
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