THE PRUSSIAN MILLIONAIRES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2627, 25 March 1912, Page 8

THE PRUSSIAN MILLIONAIRES.

SOME BIG FIGURES

According to statistics of the income and capital tax which appear in the current number of Plutus, the richest person in the Prussian kingdom is Fran Krupp von Bohlcn unci Halbach, a striking tribute to the profitable nature of the steel and armament industry. In 1908 her property was valued at C 9,300,000, her income at CG50,000. In the second place comes Prince Guido Heiickci von Donnersniarck, with *propertly valued at £8,850,000, and an income' of £600,000. This income, which is derived from the most varied sources, has more than doubled during the last 15 years, while those of the Krupps and Rothschilds have been divided through deaths.

Christian Kraft, Prince of Hohen-lohe-Oehringen and Duke of Ujest, is the third richest man, with a property valued in 1908 at £7,550,000, and an income of £325,000. Since 1895 the increase! of zinc prices has raised the value of the duke's property nearly four times over.

The Rothschild estate, in 1895 the most valuable of all, now conies fourth on the list, having sunk from £13,300,000 in 1899 to £5,350,000 in 1908, through the divisions that followed the death of the old Rothschild in 1899.

Fifth comes Henry XV., Prince Pless, with £4,200,000, and no income of over £95,000, followed by Hans Ulrich, Count von Schaffgotsch, with £3,950,000 and an income of £220,000. The income of this last gentleman was enormously increased by his marriage with Johanna Gryzik von Schomberg-God-ulla, the daughter of a coal miner, but adopted by the coal owner, Karl Gocfulla, who himself started his career as a simple mine inspector. After these come Freifrau Mathilde von Rothschild, the nearly 80-years-old daughter of the Vienna Rothschilds, with £3,800,000, and an income of £125,000. Eighth on the list comes Edward Beit von Speyer, the member of the well-known banking house of SpeyerElissen, followed by Count Tiele-Winck-ler, who, like Count Schaffgotsch, has most of his property in coal, and the Duke of Arenberg, a Catholic member of the Reichstagc.