Daniel K. Ludwig (June 24 1897 - August 27 1992) was a US shipping magnate and billionaire. Daniel K. Ludwig was born in South Haven, Michigan. He ended school at the eighth grade and began to work in various shipping-related jobs like a machinist, sea-going engineer and ship handler and learned the ropes mainly by experience. He went into shipping at the age of 19 and started his business transporting molasses around the Great Lakes. Wikipedia
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Bio: Ludwig created the largest shipping company in the United States (the world's third largest) and one of the world's biggest private multinational corporations. www.hbs.edu/leadership/database/leaders/547/
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