Just months after Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon in 1969, Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn founded DHL, the world's first international door-to-door delivery company.
The founders' simple yet revolutionary idea was to send documents by air so that the documents get to customs earlier than the product. The idea saved carriers days, even weeks, and DHL found the International Air Express industry.
DHL is an American-founded German logistics company providing courier, package delivery and express mail service, delivering over 1.8 billion parcels per year. A subsidiary of the German logistics firm DHL Group, its express mail service DHL Express is one of the market leaders for parcel services in Europe and Germany's main courier and parcel service.
DHL has grown rapidly all over the world in a short time after its establishment. Today, DHL is the world's largest logistics company with more than 600,000 employees and offices in more than 220 countries and regions.
1969: DHL FOUNDED
1971: DHL OPENED TO THE FAR EAST
1977: DHL STARTED TO MAKE DELIVERY OTHER THAN DOCUMENT DELIVERY
1986: BECAME THE FIRST EXPRESS COMPANY OPERATING IN CHINA
1998: DEUTSCHE POST AG PARTICIPATED IN DHL
2002: DEUTSCHE POST PURCHASES DHL
2019: 50th ANNIVERSARY OF DHL
Larry Lee Hillblom (May 12, 1943 – May 21, 1995) was an American businessman and, alongside Adrian Dalsey and Robert Lynn, co-founded the shipping company DHL Worldwide Express. After his disappearance, his estate paid $360 million to four impoverished children whom he had fathered as a result of "sex safari" trips in Southeast Asian countries, where he reportedly raped prepubescent girls and teenaged virgins.
DHL Foundation
When Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom, and Robert Lynn founded DHL in 1969, they didn't know they were going to revolutionize the logistics world. Just a few months after Neil Armstrong took his first step on the Moon, Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn in San Francisco took a step towards changing the global economy. They founded the company DHL in 1969, the abbreviation of three letters is the initials of their surnames.
Adrian Dalsey (October 14, 1914 – October 10, 1994) was a co-founder of shipping company, DHL Express. Dalsey was born in Illinois on October 14, 1914. He attended Wheaton College there, but later dropped out.
Deutsche Post Privatization
1995, the second postal reform, mainly of an administrative nature, enters into force in early 1995 based on the Postal and Telecommunications Reorganization Act. Three companies exiting the Deutsche Bundespost are transformed into joint-stock companies under private law. Although the federal government initially held all the shares, they were gradually offered for sale to private shareholders, and the federal government retained the majority stake for at least five years.
The story of Deutsche Post
Franz von Taxis is considered the founder of the modern postal system. In the name of the distant Habsburg family dynasty, by the mid-16th century, they established a network of couriers that would expand to cover all of Western Europe. Permanent postal stations were built about a day's journey away. Over time, these stations became important economic centers.
On April 1, 1646, the Prussian Duke Friedrich Wilhelm established the Prussian State Postal Service (which would later become Deutsche Post by privatization); It issued postal arrangements providing regular postal service between Berlin, Münster, Osnabrück, Kleve, and Königsberg.