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.
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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
