 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 Heidelberg University and in 1890 he purchased Beiersdorf AG, which at the time was a chemist's shop and laboratory in Hamburg run by Paul Beiersdorf (1836–1896).