Sophie Henschel

German industrialist

Sophie Henschel (1841–1916) was a German industrialist.^[1] She was married to Oscar Henschel and the leader of Henschel & Son from his death in 1894 until 1910. She was one of the richest women in Germany. She was known as a patron of the arts and was given the Wilhelm-Orden.

References

^ Ortrud Wörner: Sophie Henschel (1841–1915). Lokomotivfabrikantin und Stifterin. Euregioverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-933617-19-7, (Die Region trifft sich – die Region erinnert sich).

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (June 2020) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the German article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Sophie Henschel]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Sophie Henschel}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.