Der Wissensträger — the knowledge carrier. A German term for the person in whom a body of expertise sits.
Wissen ist Macht — knowledge is power, said in German with no irony and no particular objection.
The team’s knowledge is spoken of as something held, carried and accumulated, rather than as something that circulates.
The employer’s statutory duty to report to the works meeting on the establishment’s financial position carries an express limitation: only as far as there is no risk of disclosing trade or business secrets. Even the most sweeping German information duty stops at the point where knowledge becomes an asset that could leave.
German writers have been among the most influential in European history.
It is said that Germans created modern chemistry.
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary German Philosophers of all time. This list of famous German philosophers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
Germans have had major influence on the study of physics.
Germany has produced many world-class biologists.
Germany has brought forth many of the most influential Christian theologians.
Not Karl Marx, but Max Weber is considered to be the founder of modern sociology.
Germans see knowledge as the team’s primary capital. They are keen to protect and expand their knowledge base. As individual colleagues. As individual teams. Germans are particularly sensitive to how and with whom that capital is shared.