MEMBERS OF THE BVL LOGISTICS HALL OF FAME

The Logistics Hall of Fame members have made outstanding efforts to promote the further development of logistics and supply chain management. Future generations of logisticians shall not forget the efforts and commitment of those who went before them.

Find out more about the members at

www.logisticshalloffame.net

FRANZ VON TAXIS AND JOHANN BAPTISTA VON TAXIS (TASSO)

Founder of the international postal services

 

HENRY FORD AND RANSOM ELI OLDS

Inventors of assembly line production

 

JAMES E. CASEY

Launcher of parcels services and founder of UPS

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NORMAN JOSEPH WOODLAND, GEORGE LAURER, BERNARD SILVER

Inventors of the barcode

 

LOTHAR RAUCAMP

Fighter for the cooperative idea in logistics and founder of dedicated industry insurer KRAVAG

 

GERHARD SCHÄFER

Initiator of the system concept and pioneer of storage logistics

 

HORST MOSOLF

Pioneer of vehicle logistics

 

FREDERICK W. SMITH

Inventor of express logistics and founder of FedEx

 

PEER WITTEN

Paved the way for Internet commerce and modern logistics

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HEIDI SENGER-WEISS

Successful entrepreneur and source of stimuli for logistics

 

DETTHOLD ADEN

Leading managerial figure and a key source of stimuli for modern logistics

 

HELMUT BAUMGARTEN

Founder of holistic and process-oriented logistics

 

EUGENE BRADLEY CLARK

Inventor of the forklift truck

 

GOTTLIEB DAIMLER

Inventor of the Truck and Pioneer of modern Freight Transport

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HEINZ UND HUGO FIEGE

Pioneers of contract logistics

 

HERMANN GREWER

Mover of European road freight transport

 

MICHAEL TEN HOMPEL

Logistics research guru

 

REINHARDT JÜNEMANN

Leading material flow expert and co-founder of industrial logistics

 

PETER KLAUS

Statistician of logistics

 

KLAUS-MICHAEL KÜHNE

Leading entrepreneurial figure and logistics benefactor

 

MALCOM MCLEAN

The father of containerisation

 

TAIICHI OHNO

Inventor of kanban

 

HANS-CHRISTIAN PFOHL

Founder of scientific logistics research

 

GOTTFRIED SCHENKER

Inventor of groupage transport by rail

 

HANSPETER STABENAU

Founder of the German logistics movement

 

WILLIAM H. TUNNER

The man who organised the Berlin Airlift

 

HORST WILDEMANN

German automotive logistics guru

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