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According to Prof. Jenks, August Thyssen, another potent German industrialist, "is supporting fresh-air homes for 3,000 children, most of whom he knows by name...
Herr August Thyssen, who, next to Herr Hugo Stinnes, is the most powerful industrialist in Germany, sent his agent, Dr. Holzwarth, to the U. S. to buy options on lignite areas in North Dakota...
...reason for this move, according to Dr. Holzwarth, is that Thyssen's chemists have perfected a process to produce from lignite, the supply of which is almost inexhaustible, a fuel equal in efficiency to anthracite...
...presentation of a memorial because, as he said to me, he considered the Kaiser as the biggest misfortune of the German Empire. . . . He lives in a modest little house in Berlin-the same house that was occupied by his parents. He dresses with almost studied simplicity. . . . August Thyssen, next to Stinnes, is the greatest business man in Germany." The next in order of greatness, he said, are Herren Carl Friedrich Siemens, head of the electrical industry, and Felix Deutsch, brother-in-law of Otto H. Kahn. These four men, said Dr. Stein, form the "Big Four in German Industry...
...outline of the reparations agreement, signed at Düsseldorf by Herr Vogler of the Deutsche-Luxembourg coal mines on behalf of the magnates, Herren Stinnes, Thyssen, Reusch, Hubert, Fickler, and himself...