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Oscar Troplowitz
Oscar Troplowitz (18 January 1863, Gleiwitz, Prussia (now Gliwice, Poland) – 27 April 1918, Hamburg) was a German pharmacist and entrepreneur.
Troplowitz trained at Heidleberg University and in 1890 he purchased Beiersdorf AG, which at the time was a chemist's shop and laboratory in Hamburg run by Paul Carl Beiersdorf (1836–1896). Soon afterwards, Troplowitz expanded the company into selling brand-name merchandise as well.
Under Troplowitz's ownership, the company developed several of its own products,
Troplowitz kept networking internationally, the products became known worldwide.
Dr. Oscar Troplowitz and his co-partner Dr. Otto Hanns Mankiewicz both died in 1918. Due to this, Beiersdorf had to change its legal form. Finally, on 1 June 1922 the stock company P. Beiersdorf & Co. AG was founded. In the same year Hansaplast was released. In 1925, the design of the Nivea Creme tin was changed to the blue and white tin as we know it today.
In 1928, the Beiersdorf stocks were dealt for