Albert Ballin
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Albert Ballin was a German shipping magnate. He was the general director of the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft or Hamburg-America Line, which for a time was the world's largest
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Postage stamp issued by the Deutsche Bundespost in 1957 in commemoration of Ballin's 100th birthday
Albert Ballin's gravestone in Hamburg, Germany. It is located on landlot Q9, 430–433 in Ohlsdorf Cemetery.
Augusta Victoria as launched, about 1890
Ernest Cassel
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Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel was a British merchant banker and businessman. Born and raised in Prussia, he moved to England at the age of 17.
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…one another in passenger liners but desist in their attempts to best one another's naval fleets. Working with his close friend the British financier Ernest Cassel, they convinced the governments in London and Berlin to negotiate a solution to the naval arms race through the Haldane Mission of 1912. Unfortunately…
Painted by Anders Zorn, 1906
Villa Cassel at Riederalp, Switzerland
Cassel's Donation Concert House in Grängesberg, Sweden
Cassel caricatured by Spy for Vanity Fair, 1899