Business history

Under the company's history is defined as the scientific study and documentation of the history of individual companies, especially their action and decision processes. Historical methods are used combined with a business knowledge. In the scientific landscape, the history of the company is a sub-discipline of economic history and social history.

Most have large and well-established company with a well- documented history. In Germany, some companies have hired historians to explore their involvement during the Nazi era and to document and so any accusations or counter comply damages, such as the Allianz AG and the German bank.

Your own company's history now serves companies also to build a corporate identity and sometimes investors as a decision aid.

Trade history

The U.S. was a pioneer in the history of the company. So there, the Chair of Business History in 1927 at the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard University built. Beginning in 1928, the first journal The Journal of Economic and Business History appeared there.

In Germany, the development after the Second World War began with the publication of the journal Tradition in 1956 by Wilhelm loyalty. After the company's history has long been operated mainly in Germany and of the company itself was founded in 1976, mainly at the instigation of the former head of Deutsche Bank Hermann Josef Abs and the Director of the Historical Archives of the Deutsche Bank Manfred Pohl in Frankfurt, the first scientific institution, the Society for business History ( GUG ). The company led the journal tradition now as a journal for the company's history continues, which became the official organ of the society.

1989 was founded in Bochum as a counter- institution of the Working Group for Critical enterprise and industry history (ACCU ).

Sources for the history of the company

• Company Commemorative
• Enterprise archives