Many of his fellow industrialists ridiculed the plans as do-gooder nonsense, doomed to failure.
According to the conspiracy-theorists, this explains why Mr Dogan's fellow industrialists have not rallied to his support even though his daughter, Arzuhan Yalcindag, presides over Turkey's biggest business lobby, TUSIAD.Mr Erdogan denies singling out Mr Dogan for punishment.
But it was Mr. Carnegie who rounded up fellow industrialists to spend their own money to buttress a stock market in free-fall in 1929.Other financiers and financial institutions have also found themselves in the role of rescuers of capitalism.
Ratan Tata, the boss of one of India's biggest conglomerates and a rare icon of integrity, described in a lecture on November 15th how he had decided not to enter the airline business after a fellow industrialist suggested he pay a bribe of 150m rupees ($3.4m) to a minister.
In his place stands a wholly new man, a fabulous fellow, part industrialist, part mechanic, part chemist.
He later took seriously his roles as a photographer, documentary film-maker and industrialist, but fellow Germans thought of him as the crown prince of pleasure, living it up internationally on their behalf while they were at work on the production line, bolting together the postwar German miracle.
Fellow Yale graduate Roger Milliken, a wealthy industrialist in the textile industry who had been tough with unions in his South Carolina plant, purchased subscriptions for over a thousand of his friends and bought advertising space.
And the chorus gets louder: Wallenberg and Svanberg, along with five fellow Bilderberg participants, are members of the influential European Round Table of Industrialists.
This year Roman Abramovich took two of his yachts (what a great thing to be able to say); fellow billionaires included Harrods owner Mohamed Fayed, BHS boss Sir Philip Green and the industrialist Lakshmi Mittal.
"Business fellows will also be people with good interpersonal skills who interact well with industrialists as well as with their peers".
After the war, Captain Kinberg moved to Manhattan, sold real estate and mingled with prominent New Yorkers, including Walter P. Inman, a fellow aviator who served with him in France and who was the stepson of James B. Duke, industrialist and builder of the American Tobacco Company.
