Word: direktor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time of his death, Dr. Stimming had accumulated 942,162 tons of ships, restored the pre-War service of one express liner and one cabin ship a week between New York and Germany, built the S. S. Columbus, Bremen and Europa, fastest liner afloat. Pudgy, shaven-polled, Herr Direktor Stimming was loved & feared by his employes. He traveled always across the Atlantic on ships of competing lines so that he might watch their methods. To rationalize German shipping, he arranged mergers of small lines, finally concluded a pooling agreement with the Hamburg-American Line...
...chief continental rival, North German Lloyd's Herr Direktor Karl Stimming, is also very short, very forceful, but is bald and has the tiniest possible mustache. †Equivalent to board chairman...