Frederik Hendrik, or Frits Fentener van Vlissingen was a Dutch businessman and entrepreneur credited with growing SHV into the first Dutch multinational corporation. He is the grandfather of Frits Fen
F.H. Fentener van Vlissingen
One of a series of old Lloyd's registers from former N.V. Vereenigde Steenkolenhandel offices in IJmuiden. Currently in the library of the Zee- en Haven Museum there. The SHV managed the transport of coal ("Steenkool") in the North Sea Canal.
Gate of the Beukenhorst estate where Frits Fentener van Vlissingen lived with his wife for the last 11 years of his life, now a rijksmonument.
Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken was a German manufacturer of artificial fiber founded in 1899 that became one of the leading European producers of rayon.
A "thread counter", folding magnifying glass with the logo of the Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken
Johann Urban, co-founder of VGF, in 1928
Share of the Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken AG, issued June 1900
Donnersmarck plant in Szczecin, Poland, formerly Stettin