Robert Bosch: His Life and Achievements - Hardcover

Theodor Heuss

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805030670 ISBN 13: 9780805030679

Publisher: Henry Holt, 1994

Synopsis

Robert Bosch founded and led one of Germany's most important and successful manufacturing firms, best known for the invention of the spark plug. This official biography delves into Bosch's relations with such esteemed inventors as Thomas Alva Edison and examines issues ranging from Bosch's involvement in industrial policy to his encouragement of German-French relations in economic and political spheres. One of the first corporate heads to be directly concerned with and involved in employee relations and well-being, he instituted the eight-hour workday, was instrumental in providing for the health care of his factory workers, and was known as a great philanthropist.
When Bosch contacted journalist Theodor Heuss to write his authorized biography in 1942, he could not have known that Heuss would later become the first president of West Germany. Bosch died later that year, and his biography was published in 1946.
What can be found in Robert Bosch: His Life and Achievements is a significant piece of history, recounting Bosch's rise and success as a self-made industrialist. It will play a key role in our continued understanding of the evolution of science, industry, and invention.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

From Publishers Weekly:

Son of a wealthy Swabian farmer, tenacious, brusque Robert Bosch (1861-1942) transformed a small craft workshop into a huge manufacturing firm which developed the spark plug and assisted the birth of Germany's auto industry. Bosch, who worked in Thomas Edison's factory in New York in 1884, pioneered Germany's eight-hour workday and a wage policy stressing high pay and old-age security for all. In this comprehensive workmanlike biography, published in Germany in 1946, Heuss, who was president of West Germany from 1949 to 1959, portrays Bosch as profoundly alienated from Hitler but reduced to silence. After the industrialist unsuccessfully urged Hitler to seek a rapprochement with France, Bosch's factory reached an accommodation with the Nazis and helped build the German air force. Nevertheless, his firm was viewed with suspicion by the Gestapo, and some of its employees and principals went to prisons or concentration camps. Photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0805030670
• ISBN 13: 9780805030679
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 612