Alfred Lowenstein
Alfred Lonard Loewenstein , CB, was a Belgian financier. At his peak in the 1920s he was worth aroundmillion in the currency of the time.
Loewenstein was born to Bernard Loewenstein, a GermanJewish banker in Brussels, Belgium. Loewenstein established his own banking concern, and was a wealthy man by 1914. He offered his government in exile 50 million dollars, interest free, to stabilize the currency in return for the right of printing Belgian francs. The offer was refused. He joined the Belgian armed forces and following the armys retreat, Captain Alfred Loewenstein was sent to London, England where he was placed in charge of military supplies. At wars end, he maintained a residence in England where he ran an investment business that made him one of Europes most powerful financiers. He partnered with the Canadianborn investment house of Sir James Dunn in several business venture, the duo emerging with more than 1,000,000 profit from their 1920s investment in British Celanese alone.
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