Fritz Thyssen
Friedrich Fritz Thyssen was a German businessman born into one of Germanys leading industrial families.
Thyssen was born in Mlheim in the Ruhr area. His father, August, was head of the Thyssen mining and steelmaking company, which had been founded by his father Friedrich and was based in the Ruhr city of Duisburg. Thyssen studied mining and metallurgy in London, Lige, and Berlin, and after a short period of service in the German Army he joined the family business. OnJanuary 1900 in Dsseldorf he married Amelie Helle or Zurhelle , daughter of a factory owner. Their only child, Anna , , was born in 1909. Thyssen again joined the army in 1914, but was soon discharged with a lung condition.
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