BERLIN NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ON THE DEATH OF SIR HENRI DETERDING
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BERLIN NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ON THE DEATH OF SIR HENRI DETERDING
Pester Lloyd (Budapest) article on the death of Sir Henri Deterding
Pester Lloyd (Budapest) article on the death of Sir Henri Deterding: 12 Feb 1939
Commercial and Financial Chronicle (New York): Death of Sir Henri Deterding, Oil Magnate
Berlin news report death of sir Henri Deterding: 11 Feb 1939
Berlin news report death of sir Henri Deterding: 11 Feb 1939
The Times: SIR HENRI DETERDING’S FUNERAL
SIR HENRI DETERDING’S FUNERAL
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BERLIN, FEB 10
Herr Hitler and Field-Marshal Goring, and the Dutch Government, sent wreaths to the funeral to-day of Sir Henri Deterding at his estate at Dobbin, Mecklenburg.
A private memorial service in the house was followed by a public service and the interment.
Simultaneously memorial services were held in all offices in Germany of the Royal Dutch-Shell group.
It is announced that Sir Henri bequeathed the whole of his large estate at Dobbin-with the exception of the house and the immediately surrounding park-to the Friedrich-Heinrich Farming Institute, which he founded.
Hamburg News: The death of Sir Henri Deterding: 10 Feb 1939
Hamburg News: The death of Sir Henri Deterding: 10 Feb 1939
Rotterdam newspaper report on Sir Henri Deterding’s death: 10 Feb 1939
Rotterdam newspaper report on Sir Henri Deterding’s death: 10 Feb 1939
Berlin newspaper covering the death of Sir Henri Deterding: 9 Feb 1939
Berlin newspaper covering the death of Sir Henri Deterding: 9 Feb 1939
Frankfurt Newspaper report death of Sir Henri Deterding, a selfmademan: 9 Feb 1939
Frankfurt Newspaper report death of Sir Henri Deterding, a Selfmademan: 9 Feb 1939
Hamburg News: Henri Deterding’s Last home: 9 Feb 1939
Hamburg News: Henri Deterding’s Last home: 9 Feb 1939
(Henri Deterding’s Study in Dobbin)
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German newspaper article death of Sir Henri Deterding (Napoleon): 9 Feb 1939
German newspaper article death of Sir Henri Deterding (Napoleon): 9 Feb 1939
German Newspaper reports death of Sir Henri Deterding: 8 Feb 1939
German Newspaper reports death of Sir Henri Deterding: 8 Feb 1939
DETERDING BURIAL PLANS
DETERDING BURIAL PLANS
Oil Operator’s Body to Be Taken to His German Estate
ST. MORITZ, Switzerland, Feb. 6 (AP).–The family of Sir Henri Deterding gathered at the Swiss villa where he died unexpectedly Saturday to take the body of the 72-year-old Netherlands-born oil operator back to his estate at Dobbin, Mecklenburg, Germany, for burial.
His two sons came from England to join Lady Deterding who, friends said, is expecting the birth of a child next month.
Sir Henri, .who bad a personal fortune estimated at $150,000,000 or more and who retired in 1937 from the director generalship of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, also is survived by a daughter by his first marriage and two daughters by his second. His first wife died, the second marriage ended in a divorce and in 1936 he married a 38-year-old secretary.
Hamburg news article Sir Henri Deterding death: 7 Feb 1939
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German Mine Newspaper Dusseldorf Sir Henri Deterding: 7 Feb 1939
German Mine Newspaper Dusseldorf Sir Henri Deterding: 7 Feb 1939
German Newspaper Sir Henri Deterding: 7 Feb 1939
German Newspaper Sir Henri Deterding: 7 Feb 1939