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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 read more

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German Newspaper reports death of Sir Henri Deterding: 8 Feb 1939

German Newspaper reports death of Sir Henri Deterding: 8 Feb 1939 read more

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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. read more

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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 read more

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German Newspaper Sir Henri Deterding: 7 Feb 1939

German Newspaper Sir Henri Deterding: 7 Feb 1939 read more

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German general newspaper (Berlin) Sir Henri Deterding death: 7 Feb 1939

German general newspaper (Berlin) Sir Henri Deterding death: 7 Feb 1939

(about a 10 line overlap between these two sections)

If anyone fancies a challenge and can translate the German text into English, kindly send the translation to [email protected] and it will be added here. Please indicate the date of this article. Use your browser to enlarge the image. There are also options to increase the image size by clicking on the SOURCE button. Prepared to pay via Pay Pal a reasonable small sum agreed in advance. Translation gig ideal for German pensioner. read more

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Frankfurt Newspaper: Sir Henri Deterding death: 7 Feb 1939

Frankfurt Newspaper: Sir Henri Deterding death: 7 Feb 1939 read more

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Report on Sir Henri Deterding’s death

The new economy (Berlin). Feb 1939. (Precise day of month indiscernible) read more

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News article by The German Economics (Berlin) about Sir Henri Deterding

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SIR HENRI DETERDING: An Oil Napoleon

THE CALGARY DAILY HERALD: 7 February 1939 Page 4

EXTRACTS

FEW careers in modern times have been more strange and eventual that that of Sir Henri Deterding.

An inveterate enemy of Soviet rule in Russia because of confiscation of the rich Caucasus oil fields, he later swung over to the support of the Hitler movement in Germany and helped to finance it.

SOURCE ARTICLE

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Frankfurt Newspaper Sir Henry Deterding death: 6 Feb 1939

Frankfurt Newspaper Sir Henry Deterding death: 6 Feb 1939 read more

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Hamburg News Sir Henri Deterding: 6 Feb 1939

If anyone fancies a challenge and can translate the German text into English, kindly send the translation to [email protected] and it will be added here. Please indicate the date of this article. Use your browser to enlarge the image. There are also options to increase the image size by clicking on the SOURCE button. Prepared to pay via Pay Pal a reasonable small sum agreed in advance. Translation gig ideal for German pensioner.

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Cologne Newspaper: Sir Henri Deterding : 6 Feb 1939

Cologne Newspaper: Death of Sir Henri Deterding: 6 Feb 1939 read more

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Berlin News reporting the death of Sir Henri Deterding: 6 Feb 1939

Berlin News death of Sir Henri Deterding: 6 Feb 1939 read more

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