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Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016. Signed: Signed on mount recto, lower right, in black pen: "Eisenstaedt" Inscribed: Dated on mount recto, lower left, in black pen: "1932"; Inscribed on mount verso, top, in blue pen: "Sir Henry Deterding, chairman and founder of Shell Oil, St. Moritz, 1932".
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 ...
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.
Deterding was married three times (resp to Catharina Neubronner, Lydia Koudoyaroff and to Charlotte Knaack) and had seven children, among whom was the socialite Olga Deterding. The British newspaper the Daily Mail erroneously published his obituary on 27 June 1924, with the news being copied by The New York Times.
Oct 1, 2016 · The unambiguous evidence from Hjalmar Schacht, given under interrogation, of the sizable contributions, received from Sir Henri Deterding. The verdict reached independently by Ian Cummins and John Beasant that in fact Hitler revered Deterding.
Sir Henri Deterding, who was spending the winter at his villa near Suvretta, at St. Moritz, died suddenly on Saturday from angina pectoris, telegraphs our Geneva Correspondent. His death is causing great grief at St. Moritz, where his generosity and kindness had made him very popular. By his death the international oil industry loses one of its ...
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 ...
