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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.
GSG & Associates Publishers, San Pedro (Ca) 2002, ISBN 0-945001-53-3 , also in (online version, chapter 7, with information on ... The Times: Sir Henri Deterding ...
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Aug 26, 2018 · Deterding was an honoured associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring. Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four-day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields.
Oct 1, 2016 · Sir Henri Deterding, director-general of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, and a director of the Shell Transport and Trading Co., Ltd., who has given £1,000,000 for the purchase of Dutch produce for export to Germany, apparently intends the gift as part of the campaign against economic restrictions and Communism.
Hendrix highlights how Deterding used his oil industry position to advance an anti-Soviet, anticommunist agenda, at one point even setting up his own secret service against the Comintern directed by former British director of military intelligence General Sir George MacDonough.
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 he died, and made Royal Dutch Shell a competitor ...
Other articles where Hendrik W. A. Deterding is discussed: Royal Dutch Shell PLC: …1896, under the leadership of Hendrik W.A. Deterding (1866–1939), it began the construction of tankers and storage facilities and the creation of a sales organization.
