Deterding - Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding

Japanese: デターディング - でたーでぃんぐ(英語表記)Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding
Deterding - Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding

A businessman born in the Netherlands and naturalized in the UK. He is famous for being the founder of the Royal Dutch Shell Group, a multinational corporation that spans both the UK and the Netherlands, which has a similar background to his own. He joined a Dutch trading company and moved to Royal Dutch Petroleum after learning about the oil industry there as a representative in Southeast Asia. He became president in 1900, and in order to compete with Standard Oil, which was trying to dominate the world market at the time, he conspired with Marcus Samuel, president of the British oil company Shell Transport, who was in a similar position to Standard Oil, and the Rothschild family, and founded and managed the Asiatic Oil Company in 1903 and the aforementioned multinational corporation four years later. He then expanded into various regions in an attempt to expand his market, but he became anti-Soviet in revenge for his oil field facilities being confiscated, and is known to have become a supporter of the Nazis as they rose to power. He was knighted in 1902.

[Kesaji Kobayashi]

[References] | Royal Dutch Shell Group

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

オランダに生まれイギリスに帰化した実業家。自らの経歴に似たオランダ、イギリスの両国にまたがる多国籍企業、ロイヤル・ダッチ・シェル・グループの創設者として有名。オランダの貿易企業に入り、東南アジアの駐在員として同地の産油事業を知ったのちロイヤル・ダッチ・ペトロリウムに移った。1900年社長に就任、当時世界市場をその支配下に収めようとしていたスタンダード石油に対抗するため、共通の立場にあったイギリスの石油企業、シェル・トランスポートの社長、マーカス・サミュエルやロスチャイルド家と談合し、03年アジアティック石油会社を、4年後には前述の多国籍企業を創設、その経営にあたった。その後市場の拡大を求めて各地に進出するが、油田施設を接収された腹いせから反ソ的となり、ナチスの台頭とともに、その支持者となったことでも知られる。1902年ナイトに叙せられた。

[小林袈裟治]

[参照項目] | ロイヤル・ダッチ・シェル・グループ

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