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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.
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.
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Aug 26, 2018 · Sir Henri Deterding (photograph above and oil painting below), the founder of the Royal Dutch Shell Group – known as “The Most Powerful Man in the World” – who became an ardent Nazi and financial supporter of Hitler and the Nazi party on behalf of his beloved company, Shell.
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.
Oil and empire: British policy and Mesopotamian oil I900-I20 (London, 1976). Deterding was so annoyed at the British government's behaviour during these negotiations that in March 1914, when he thought that Shell was about to be completely excluded from the TPC in favour of APOC and the Deutsche Bank, he threatened to sue the British government.
Henri Wilhelm August Deterding , KBE (born April 19, 1866 in Amsterdam , † February 4, 1939 in St. Moritz ) was a Dutch industrialist. As the main shareholder of the Shell group , he was one of the richest men in the world in his day. [1] He was considered the "Napoleon of petroleum". [2]
