Samuel van den Bergh
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Samuel van den Bergh (6 April 1864, in Oss – 4 February 1941, in Nice) was one of the main European Jewish margarine and soap manufacturers in the early 20th century.
In 1888, the year his father, Simon van den Bergh, opened his first German margarine factory in Kleve, van den Bergh joined his father's margarine company, of which he became general director in 1909 after his father's death in 1907.[1] He was initially in fierce competition with another manufacturer from Oss, Netherlands, named Antonius Johannes Jurgens, whose grandfather, Antoon Jurgens, had founded the first margarine factory in the world in 1870 in Oss by "using" a French patent and operated another German factory in nearby Goch. Both competitors merged in 1927 to form the Margarine Unie in Rotterdam (which would merge in 1930 with Lever Brothers to form Unilever).[2]
References
- ^ "Samuel van den Bergh". Retrieved 14 April 2017.
- ^ "Organisation introduction". Retrieved 14 April 2017.
Further reading
- Charles Wilson: The history of Unilever. A study in economic growth and social change. 2 vols. London, Cassell & Company, 1954. Ed. Cassell 1970: ISBN 0-304-93605-7
- 1864 births
- 1941 deaths
- People from Oss
- Liberal Union (Netherlands) politicians
- Liberal State Party politicians
- Members of the Senate (Netherlands)
- Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands)
- Municipal councillors of Rotterdam
- Dutch chief executives in the manufacturing industry
- Dutch businesspeople
- Dutch corporate directors
- Dutch Jews
- Jewish Dutch politicians
- Unilever people
- People in food and agriculture occupations
- Dutch business biography stubs