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having loaded the wrong grade of coal. Strousberg was tried, found guilty, and served six months imprisonment with hard labour. A year after his release, the
Strousberg's first son, Bethel Henry Jun., was born; and in January 1849, the three of them travelled to the USA returning in April 1850. Their
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responsible for the construction of the railway lines, whom he paid with block of shares in instalments according to the building progress. He himself had to raise less capital while
Strousberg's stockholders initially generated high profits, however, the nominal value of the shares reached dubious
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September 1839, where he initially lived with his mother's brother Peter Gottheimer, who jointly owned a fancy goods business with his brother Lesser. A third brother, Berton Gottheimer, was also in London in the same business. Strousberg anglicized his name to Bethel Henry and converted to
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Aufstieg und Fall des "Eisenbahnkönigs" Bethel Henry
Strousberg (NÂş 5 in the series Miniaturen zur Geschichte, Kultur und Denkmalpflege Berlins), Horst Mauter, Interessengemeischaft fĂĽr Denkmalpflege, Kultur und Geschichte der Hauptstadt Berlin, Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin
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In July 1847, Strousberg was working as an agent for several building societies and entrusted to handle member's payments. For some reason, he took an amount of money and booked a passage to
America, but was found out when the steamer had to return to
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for alleged fraudulent transactions with the cashing of due bills and granting of credits in 1876. He was deported and returned to Berlin, dividing his time between London and the manor of his son-in-law in
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second son Arthur was born in the autumn of that year. By 1854, Strousberg had become a successful publisher and journalist and was also a manager of an insurance company. Socially he was a Fellow of the
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Eisenbahnkönig, oder, Rumänien lag in Linden : Materialien zur Sozialgeschichte des Arbeiterwohnungsbaus, Wolfgang Voigt, AG SPAK, München SPAK, 1982,
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Die
Reichstagswahlen von 1867 bis 1903. Eine Statistik der Reichstagswahlen nebst den Programmen der Parteien und einem Verzeichnis der gewählten Abgeordneten
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Strousberg died of a heart attack in Berlin, in hard economic circumstances. His mausoleum is preserved on the
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entrance building and the renovation work at Zbiroh Castle. The castle is now an hotel and conference venue with guided tours of the restored building.
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By the early 1860s, he had gone back to
Germany and embarked on a second career as a railway entrepreneur and industrialist. With good contacts to the
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heights with regard to the actual costs of constructing. In 1868, he also purchased the iron foundry and engineering works of Georg
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state government and backed by British financiers, he acquired the licence to build the East Prussian Southern Railway line from
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Strousberg was generally known as a fair and caring employer. From 1867 to 1871, he was a member of the
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Reichstag des Norddeutschen Bundes 1867-1870. Historische Photographien und biographisches Handbuch
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Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947, Christopher Clark, Allen Lane, London,
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Der europäische Eisenbahnkönig Bethel Henry Strousberg, Joachim Borchart, C.H. Beck, Munich 1991,
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