Ludwig Loewe, the forgotten pioneer industrialist of Imperial Berlin : a life (1837-1886)

"Despite Ludwig Loewe's ground-breaking contribution to German industrial success before WW1, there is only accidental information available on his person and his work. After the "Jewish enterprise" was expropriated after 1933 and fell into the hands of Günther Quandt where it also remained after the end of the WW2, all company documentation and correspondence vanished. But when the few remaining titbits of information are put back into the context of their time, a more comprehensive picture of this extraordinary man emerges, who gave so much to what he considered his homeland and whose heirs were driven out and made to lose everything"--