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...1860s August Thyssen (pronounced tissen) started his steel business in a cow house outside Mulheim, in the Ruhr Valley, making hoop-iron at first. In 50 years he came to own coal fields in the Ruhr and iron-ore concessions in Lorraine and Northern France, and to employ 25,000 workers. When he died in 1926 at 84 he left an estate worth more than...
Last week the No. 1 German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who in early Nazi days gave Hitler invaluable fiscal support, suddenly arrived with his wife and child at the Locarno Hotel in Lucerne, settled down for "an indefinite stay." Said Tycoon Thyssen: "As a member of the Reichstag I expressed myself in timely and emphatic fashion against the war and the present policy of the Reich Government. This political attitude threatened to cause consequences which forced me to leave Germany...
Died. Prince Alexis Mdivani, 31, youngest of the three "marrying Mdivanis," onetime husband of Heiresses Louise Astor Van Alen and Barbara Hutton (Countess Haugwitz); in an automobile accident; near Albona, Spain. Seriously injured in the accident was Baroness Maud Thyssen, 28, reported estranged from her husband Baron Heinrich Thyssen. Prince Alexis was rushing Bareness Thyssen from the home of his sister Roussadara, wife of Painter José Maria Sert, to catch a train. Found by newshawks in Germany and informed of her onetime husband's death, Countess Haugwitz said: "I am terribly, terribly sorry. I am not surprised...
...whole Thyssen legend trembled. Eminent Groper Johannes Steel, author of The Second World War and dopester on Nazidom for Manhattan's Post, clarioned: "Fritz Thyssen is taking his money out of Germany. Thyssen, Germany's lord and master, has no confidence any more in Germany. . . . The exact amount of the capital which he managed to get out of Germany is not known, but it is certain to be no small sum, for several new Thyssen holding companies in South America are being formed...
Lord & Master Thyssen, with his wife and daughter, meanwhile faced Brazilian reporters in his suite aboard the German liner Caparcona. "I have relatives in Argentina and I am sailing on to see them" said he. "I need a rest. Reports that I left Germany because I feared an outbreak of violence are absolutely without foundation. I need a vacation as much as anyone else...