STINNES' HEIRS.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15999, 30 May 1924, Page 2

STINNES' HEIRS.

RIDDLES OF HIS VAST ESTATE. The heirs of the throne of Herr Stiniieß, to use the expression of a Berlin newspaper, are his sons, of whom the eidest, Dr. Edmund Hugo Stinnes, has for some time past acted as general manager to Jus father's manifold concerns. He is 2S, and took this position when Herr Frederick Minioux resigned it after quarrelling with the man who had made his fortune. Dr. Edmund Stinnes is described as of an amiable character and ag an exceedingly capable man of business. He has to face, however, the rivalry of Herr Minioux for industrial supremacy in Germany.

The whole. Stinnes family, boys and girls alike, were given a business training, and their father was in the habit pf placing before them and explaining to them important contracts and documents connected with his business. The second son, Hugo Hermann Stinnes, who is 26, has been for *orne time manager of the Stinnes snipping business at Hamburg, ana in charge of the export and import .inns. Great curiosity is expressed in Berlin to know what is Hip. real value of the vast Stinnes estate. The tale Hugo Stinnes left all his property to his wife, states the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, a newspaper which belonged to him. It adds 'hat (here will be no change in the composition or management of the firm.