Identifier: menaroundkaiserm00wilerich (find matches)
Title: Men around the Kaiser; the makers of modern Germany
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Wile, Frederic William, 1873-1941
Subjects: William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941 Germany -- Biography Germany -- Politics and government 1888-1918 Germany -- Intellectual life
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ted them as his watch-word. If he affected a coat-of-arms, they wouldbe its slogan. King Thyssen is the title hissupremacy in the steel, iron and coal trade has wonhim. The German Carnegie is another of hissobriquets. By universal consent he is the dominat-ing figure of the Fatherlands throbbing industriallife. No other man so thoroughly incorporates theaggressiveness and magnitude of the German busi-ness age. No ones life-story so typifies the NewGermanys fabulous rise to power and wealth in theinterval since the Franco-Prussian War. In the twenty-five years between 1885 and 1910,to select the segment of principal growth, Germanysproduction of pig-iron increased from 3,688,000 to14,794,000 tons, an advance of 301 per cent. Inthe same period production of coal and lignitemounted from 73,675,000 to 222,375,000 tons, anincrease of 201 per cent. In the production ofiron ore, and of iron and steel, Germany has come 158 > ■> » o » • > > ,J , J » » • j*>*»3»»»»
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AUGUST THYSSEN far to outstrip Great Britain, which led her by wide margins a quarter of a century ago. These were the totals for 1911 :— Germany. England. Iron Ore, 29,888,000 tons 15,769,000 tonsPig-iron, 15,572,000 ,, 9,875,000 „ Steel, 15,019,000 ,, 6,565,000 „ German mining production in general—coal, lignite,iron, potash and other salts, zinc, lead and copper—is six and one-half times its volume in 1871. Inmoney it represents an annual value of over;£ioo,ooo,ooo. Barring America, which is far in thevan, Germanys supremacy in steel, iron and cokeis unapproached. In Europe her lead is indisputable.She is now behind the United Kingdom only inthe production of coal. Among those who have directed this Brobdig-nagian development, August Thyssen of MiiUieim-on-Ruhr is the towering personality. In the coaland iron trade of Germany he has been whatRockefeller was in oil and Carnegie in steel—themaster-builder. The history of all three, who maybe bracketed as the commercial g

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