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English: Maximilian Egon II. zu Fürstenberg by E. Bieber

Identifier: menaroundkaiserm00wilerich (find matches)
Title: Men around the Kaiser; the makers of modern Germany
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Wile, Frederic William, 1873-1941
Subjects: William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941 Germany -- Biography Germany -- Politics and government 1888-1918 Germany -- Intellectual life
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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table drink of His Majesty theKaiser and King. The Kaisers fondness for Prince Fiirstenberg issometimes ascribed to the fact that the Prince isa captain of industry on a gigantic scale. Inassociation with a distant cousin of His Majesty,Prince Christian Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen,Prince Fiirstenberg heads a combination disposingover resources aggregating £100,000,000 of capital.The partnership has been christened The PrincesTrust, for its octopus-like ramifications are com-parable to the colossal communities of interestwhich the late Mr. Pierpont Morgan and the othermoney-kings of Wall Street have made famous.The Princes Trust is a force in the German finan-cial world, and its exalted connections make it apower to be reckoned with when it inauguratesone of its periodical campaigns of conquest. PrinceFfirstenbergs personal fortune has been estimatedat £20,000,000 ; Prince Hohenlohe-Oehringens at£10,000,000. Five years ago their various interests28 * >-, » » » ).., .) 1 >
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• • • • *, r • • • PRINCE FURSTENBERG were pooled and have since expanded to incal-culable dimensions. To-day the Trust owns orcontrols hotels-de-luxe, department-stores, theatres,restaurants and omnibus lines in Berlin and Hamburg,vast coal-briquette, zinc and potash mines inRhineland and Silesia, sanatoria and gambhng-palaces in Madeira, tens of thousands of acres offarming and forest lands in Germany and Austria,and a great realty and building syndicate in Berlin.Overseas, the Trusts activities find outlet in the\ownership of the German Palestine Bank, withimportant railway and commercial concessions in ;the Holy Land, and it wrested control of the German Levant Line from influential shipping interests atHamburg. The first check encountered by thePrinces Trust in its all-conquering career was itsrecent failure to secure a charter for convertingEmden, on the North Sea, into a great emigrantharbour, from which it was proposed to establish aTransatlantic steamship servic

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  • booksubject:Germany____Biography
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