World 500 Leading Enterprise Development Series: The Red Tycoon - The Biography of Robert Bosch

Author: Haus
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Publish Date: 2000-01-10
Features: Just as the writing of this book was nearing completion, the fatal threat to Germany was becoming increasingly severe. The author had already made painful and clear predictions about this disaster. I realized that the events that took place at that time, with their incredible force, pushed everything that was once a part of the recent past, now a part of the present, into history, down into an era that is now appearing irrevocably lost and declining. He was self-taught and became famous worldwide for inventing the spark plug; he founded Germany's most important manufacturing company and participated in formulating Germany's industrial policy; he cared about employee welfare and implemented an eight-hour workday in his company earlier; he opened hospitals and funded cultural, educational, and research projects. Robert Bosch was closely linked to Germany's industrial development and charitable causes. The Bosch family company had 145,000 employees worldwide by the time of its 100th anniversary in 1986. In 1998, its total sales reached $28.61 billion.