Henry Brarens Sloman
Henry Brarens Sloman was a businessman and banker based in Hamburg, Germany. Around the First World War, he was considered a remarkable importer of saltpetre from his own mines in Chile, and was listed as the richest person in Hamburg.
Henry B. Sloman was born in Kingston upon Hull, England, onAugust 1848 to parents John and Alaine Sloman. His granduncle Robert Miles Sloman was a shipbuilder and ship owner in Hamburg. When his father had lost all his assets in the Crimean War, he sent Henry and his sister Harriet to wealthy relatives in Hamburg. After absolving an apprenticeship as a locksmith in Hamburg, Henry was encouraged by his friend Hermann Flsch to emigrate to Chile, with Flschs father loaning the journeys costs to Sloman. It was also Hermann Flsch who arranged for Sloman getting work in Iquique where he later acted as director of the Flsch amp Martin company. Afteryears of working for Flsch amp Martin, Sloman established his own saltpetre business in Tocopilla and returned to Hamburg in 1889 as a wealthy man. In 1912, Sloman was recorded as leading a list of the richest citizens of Hamburg with a net worth of Goldmark 60 million and an annual income ofmillion. In 1924, he founded the bank Finanzba
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