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Martin Aufhäuser
Martin Aufhäuser (born May 26, 1875 in Munich; died 1944 in Los Angeles, California) was a German banker who ran and grew private bank Bankhaus H. Aufhäuse. During the Nazi era the bank was Aryanized and Aufhäuser escaped to the United States. Life Martin Aufhäuser was the son of the banker Heinrich Aufhäuser (1842–1917). The elder Aufhäuser founded with Samuel Scharlach Bankhaus Aufhäuser & Scharlach in Munich on May 14, 1870. By 1892 Heinrich Aufhäuser paid off his former partner Scharlach and changed the name to Bankhaus H. Aufhäuser from 1894. The bank rose quickly, and gained customers such as Duke Luitpold in Bavaria, the families of Thomas Mann as well as Neuberger and Einstein (Alfred Einstein). By 1913, H. Aufhäuser's balance sheet total exceeded 10 million gold marks. After high school in Munich, Martin Aufhäuser completed a banking apprenticeship in Frankfurt am Main. From 1891 he worked at Bankhaus H. Aufhäuser. After his father's death, Martin took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is not a state of its own. It ranks as the 11th-largest city in the European Union. The metropolitan area has around 3 million inhabitants, and the broader Munich Metropolitan Region is home to about 6.2 million people. It is the List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top four German metropolitan regions, third largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Munich is located on the river Isar north of the Alps. It is the seat of the Upper Bavaria, Upper Bavarian administrative region. With 4,500 people per km2, Munich is Germany's most densely populated municipality. It is also the second-largest city in the Bavarian language, Bavarian dialect area after Vienna. The first record of Munich dates to 1158. The city ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Corcovado
SS ' was a cargo liner that was launched in Germany in 1907 for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). In 1917 she was transferred to the Ottoman government and renamed '. In 1919 the Ottomans surrendered her to France, and her name reverted to '. In 1920 the Società Sicula Americana bought her and renamed her '. In 1927 Lloyd Sabaudo bought her and renamed her '. In 1930 the Companhia Colonial de Navegação (CCN) bought her and renamed her '. She was scrapped in Italy in 1954. In her HAPAG career ' served various transatlantic Transatlantic, Trans-Atlantic or TransAtlantic may refer to: Film * Transatlantic Pictures, a film production company from 1948 to 1950 * Transatlantic Enterprises, an American production company in the late 1970s * ''Transatlantic'' (1931 film) ... routes between Europe and both South America, South and North America. In the First World War she was the barracks ship ' in Ottoman Empire in World War I, Turkey and a troopship in the Black Sea. As ' she t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
