St. Thomas, Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands)
Died
June 6, 1957(1957-06-06) (aged 73)
New York, U.S.
Occupation(s)
Co-founder of the Puerto Rico Telephone Company and ITT Corporation
Spouse
Margaret Behn
Children
3
Sosthenes Behn (January 30, 1884 – June 6, 1957) was an American businessman, and the founder of ITT. He held the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army.
Flugzeugbau von den Anfängen 1909 bis heute. Steintor, 1989, ISBN 3926028513 Behn, Sosthenes, ANC Explorer SosthenesBehnSosthenesBehn: Brief Biography...
Friedl Behn-Grund (1906–1989), German cinematographer Hernán Behn (died 1933), Puerto Rican businessman; brother of SosthenesBehn Harry Behn (also known...
the Behn brothers, Sosthenes and Hernan. Originally, Puerto Rico Telephone Company eventually spawned ITT Corporation, which was founded by Sosthenes Behn...
S. forces during the war. On August 3, 1933, Adolf Hitler received SosthenesBehn (then the CEO of ITT) and his German representative, Henry Mann, in...
Gerhard Alois Westrick after the Fall of France. Other attendees included SosthenesBehn of ITT, Torkild Rieber of Texaco, James D. Mooney of General Motors...
Ward Stephen D. Bechtel of the engineering and construction company SosthenesBehn, founder of ITT Corporation Roger M. Blough, president of U.S. Steel...
the Condado Lagoon. It was designed and built by brothers Hernan and SosthenesBehn, and opened in June 1910. The bridge is named "Dos Hermanos", which...
However, according to Charles Higham's book Trading with the Enemy, SosthenesBehn of ITT arranged the trip and persuaded Torkild Rieber, CEO of Texaco...
Olympics LaVerne Jones-Ferrette, professional sprinter and Olympian SosthenesBehn (1882–1957), founder of the Puerto Rico Telephone Company and ITT Corporation...
General during the Civil War, New York attorney, and U.S. diplomat SosthenesBehn (1882–1957), businessman and founder of ITT Corporation William W. Belknap...
Astoria organized by Gerhard Alois Westrick. Other attendees included SosthenesBehn of ITT, Torkild Rieber of Texaco, Edsel Ford of Ford Motor Company,...
international operations was the infant ITT Corporation, founded by SosthenesBehn less than ten years previously with an aggressive and thrusting reputation...
Astoria organized by Gerhard Alois Westrick. Other attendees included SosthenesBehn of ITT, Torkild Rieber of Texaco, James D. Mooney of General Motors...
was the basis of his being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1939. In 1940, SosthenesBehn moved Federal Telegraph under ITT directly so that its manufacturing...
Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1987) IEEE Award in honor of Hernand and SosthenesBehn (1973) Main prize of the Eduard Rhein Foundation (1999) IEEE Alexander...
York to drum up support for the Nazi regime. Wagoner attended, as did SosthenesBehn of ITT, James D. Mooney of General Motors and Edsel Ford of the Ford...
US$1.9 billion. At the start of the 20th century, brothers Hernan and SosthenesBehn founded the Puerto Rico Telephone Company, before moving to New York...
laboratories, in 1927. In 1928, the entire system was bought out by SosthenesBehn's International Telephone and Telegraph. ITT organized the Postal Telegraph...
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