Major figures, inventors, businessmen and women: they’ve all left their mark on our region, setting out from here to find success in the wider world. No matter where they were born, it was here that they built up something new. |
| * 30. April 1760 in Baruth/Mark † 23. Juli 1835 in Althaldensleben
Merchant, entrepreneur and squire. In 1811, Nathusius formed Germany’s first industrial corporate group made up of more than thirty businesses, including mills, a noodle factory, a distillery, a starch and beet sugar factory, brickworks and stone quarries, as well as porcelain and machine factories. The structural changes he initiated in and around Haldensleben transformed the area from an agrarian to an industrial region.
Where you are born is one thing, where you get started in life another. | |