Aletta Haniel née ''Noot'' (1742–1815), was a German business person. She managed a substantial transport and trade firm in

Duisburg Duisburg () is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine and the Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr Region, Duisburg is the 5th largest city in No ...

in 1782-1809. She was the daughter of Jan Willem Noot, married Jacob Wilhelm Haniel in 1761 and became the mother of Franz Haniel. In 1772, she and her spouse took over the company of her father, and in 1782, she took over the wine merchant and transport firm as a widow. She also, from 1792, managed a coal trading company and shipped iron along the rivers Ruhr and

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. She retired in 1809 and divided the firm among her sons.

Sources

* Béatrice Craig:
Women and Business Since 1500: Invisible Presences in Europe and North America?
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