Thyssen, August, 1842-1926
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Birth Date
- 1842-05-17
Death Date
- 1926-04-04
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- Organization: Thyssen & Co. (Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany)
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Universität Karlsruhe
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Birth Place
- Eschweiler (Germany)
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- English
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- found: August Thyssen und Hugo Stinnes, c2003:p. [4] of cover (August Thyssen, 1842-1926)
- found: Wikipedia, viewed Jan. 13, 2024:August Thyssen (August Thyssen (German: 17 May 1842 - 4 April 1926) was a German industrialist, founder and controlling shareholder of Thyssen & Co (presently ThyssenKrupp). He was a prominent member of the Thyssen family. Thyssen was born 17 May 1842 in Eschweiler, Kingdom of Prussia, the third of nine children, to Friedrich Thyssen, a private banker and progenitor of the Thyssen family, and Katharina Thyssen (née Thyssen). His parents were first cousins. He studied Mechanical engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and economics in Antwerp, Belgium. After he had completed his studies at the RWTH Aachen University, University of Karlsruhe and a commercial school at Antwerp he like his brother Joseph Thyssen joined the bank of his father Friedrich Thyssen. In 1867 Thyssen and several members of his family founded the iron works "Thyssen-Foussol & Co" in Duisburg. When this company was dissolved in 1870, he used the new capital to establish with his father the "Walzwerk Thyssen & Co" that would become the base of an industrial empire in the industrialized Mülheim an der Ruhr, where the high of iron and steel prizes contributed to the making of his fortune. Initially he managed different companies separately in a decentralized fashion, but eventually he united them through a holding company. The largest company of his was the coal mining company "Gewerkschaft Deutscher Kaiser" in Hamborn (now part of Duisburg) that he had acquired in 1891.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Thyssen
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- 2004-04-22: new
- 2024-01-14: revised
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