Walther Rathenau
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Walther Rathenau was a German industrialist, writer and politician who served as foreign minister of Germany from February 1922 until his assassination in June 1922.
Walther Rathenau
Rathenau in 1921
Rathenau's villa on the Königsallee in Berlin
The state memorial ceremony with Rathenau's coffin in the Reichstag, 27 June 1922
Emil Rathenau
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Emil Moritz Rathenau was a German entrepreneur, industrialist, mechanical engineer. He was a leading figure in the early European electrical industry and founder of AEG.
Walther Rathenau
…democratic martyr during the Weimar era. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, all commemorations of Rathenau were banned. Rathenau was born in Berlin to Emil Rathenau, a prominent Jewish businessman and founder of the Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG), a producer of electricity and electrical equipment, and…
Dr. Emil M. Rathenau, 1883
Share of the Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität, issued 20 may 1883, signed by its founder Emil Rathenau