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1987 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

The Valet, a Typus of the Court Society. His Entrepreneurial Role

verfasst von : Hermann Kellenbenz

Erschienen in: German Yearbook on Business History 1986

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Within the framework of the discussion about the industrialization process in Germany, the question of types of entrepreneurs played a remarkable role. In 1955 Wolfgang Zorn differentiated between five types according to their origins, firstly the feudal land-owners, then the middle-class as inheritors of factories and other businesses, as well as inheritors of farms, then tradesmen and bankers, craftsmen and technicians and finally researchers1. Werner Conze followed this up in his social history contribution in the second volume of the Handbuch der deutschen Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte and suggested how one could socially, sectorally and regionally make the different entrepreneurial achievements “more concrete”2. In this he referred, amongst others, to Fritz Redlich’s differentiation between production branches which were capital intensive and those which were capital extensive3. Jürgen Kocka emphasized the starting position and career paths, whereby he distinguished between entrepreneurs with a commercial background, entrepreneurs with a craftsman’s background, technical entrepreneurs and “other” entrepreneurs and white-collar entrepreneurs4. The following contribution whishes to deal with an entrepreneurially active “typus” from the pre-industrialization period, the epoch of the “Ancien Régimes”.

Metadaten
Titel
The Valet, a Typus of the Court Society. His Entrepreneurial Role
verfasst von
Hermann Kellenbenz
Copyright-Jahr
1987
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72853-2_2