The following is a brief excerpt from Wikipedia:
Kiichiro Toyoda (豊田 喜一郎 Toyoda Kiichirō) (June 11, 1894 – March 27, 1952), was a Japanese entrepreneur and the son of Toyoda Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda. His decision to change Toyoda's focus from automatic loom manufacture into automobile manufacturing created what would become Toyota Motor Corporation.
See also:
Featured German connections: 喜一郎 is 29 degrees from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 31 degrees from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 34 degrees from Lucas Cranach, 29 degrees from Stefanie Graf, 28 degrees from Wilhelm Grimm, 31 degrees from Fanny Hensel, 33 degrees from Theodor Heuss, 25 degrees from Alexander Mack, 39 degrees from Carl Miele, 25 degrees from Nathan Rothschild, 32 degrees from Hermann Friedrich Albert von Ihering and 30 degrees from Ferdinand von Zeppelin on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.
Categories: Automotive Pioneers | Businessmen | Japanese Engineers | Order of the Sacred Treasure | Japan, Notables | Notables