Alfred Toepfer
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Alfred Carl Toepfer was a German entrepreneur, owner of the company Toepfer International and founder of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation. He helped to shape the original internal markets of the European
Alfred Toepfer (1990)
Site of the Free German Youth Day in 1913 which Toepfer attended. After acquiring the land, in 1963 Toepfer held an anniversary marking the event, and at the 75th anniversary in 1988, encouraged the youth to embrace European unity.
The Hamburgische Staatsoper was reconstructed following World War II with the help of Toepfer's foundations.
Edmund Veesenmayer
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Edmund Veesenmayer was a high-ranking German SS functionary and Holocaust perpetrator during the Nazi era. He was a subordinate of Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Joachim von Ribbentrop, and worked with Adolf
Alfred Toepfer
…and financed the legal defence of Werner Lorenz at his tribunal. He offered employment to Hermann Bickler to help him escape the death penalty, and Edmund Veesenmayer and Hans-Joachim Riecke worked at his companies well into the 1970s. During World War II Riecke was Staatssekretär of Herbert Backe in the German…
Veesenmayer in 1938
Veesenmayer's mugshot (1946)
1944 German diplomatic passport issued to the wife of Edmund Veesenmayer for travelling to occupied Hungary.