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Walther Rathenau

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German businessman, writer, art collector and politician

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According to Wikipedia, Walther Rathenau was a German industrialist, writer and politician who served as foreign minister of Germany from February to June 1922. Rathenau was the son of Emil Rathenau, a prominent Jewish businessman and founder of the electrical engineering company Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft . After obtaining a doctorate in physics from the University of Berlin, he held a number of industry positions before joining the AEG board, establishing himself as a leading industrialist in the late German Empire. In 1915, he became the chairman of AEG upon his father's death. During the First World War, he was heavily involved in the organisation of the German war economy and headed the War Raw Materials Department.

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