Upon Kühne's death in 1932, his sons - Alfred and Werner - became partners in the firm
On the 1st of May 1933 they joined the Nazi Party, and under their firm played a prominent role in the transport of property seized from Jews in occupied territories..
Klaus-Michael Kühne is known for being the richest person in Germany, according to Wikipedia
"In April 2020, Kühne upped his stake in shipping company Hapag-Lloyd to 30%, having previously owned 26% of the business, making him the largest shareholder." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapag-Llo…
"He also runs Kuhne Holding AG. In 2016, the company acquired 20% of VTG, a rail logistics company."
Morgan Stanley Infrastructure announced a cash takeover offer for rail logistics group VTG VT9G.DE .. after securing a large stake from German billionaire Klaus Michael Kuehne. .
..Kuehne Holding AG agreed to sell around 20 % of VTG for more than 300 million euros, raising Morgan Stanley Infrastructure’s stake in the company to 49 percent.. Markus Hottenrott , chief investment officer at Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partner"
Klaus-Michael's father Alfred Kühne died in 1981.. in July the same year, due to the losses sustained by the Kühne family in attempting to expand its shipping fleet, a 50% stake in KN was sold to the British conglomerate Lonrho Plc. Following the purchase, Klaus-Michael and
Lonrho's head, Roland "Tiny" Rowland acted as joint chief executives of the combined organisation.
In 2013, Lonrho plc was delisted from the LSE, JSE and OTCQX after agreeing to a £174.5 million takeover by FS Africa, a bid vehicle controlled by Swiss billionaire Thomas Schmidheiny and Rainer-Marc Frey
Victoria is is the daughter of Major Donald le Strange Campbell and Hon. Shona Catherine Greig Macpherson
Shona is the daughter of Thomas Macpherson, 1st Baron Macpherson of Drumochter
Thomas Macpherson, 1st Baron Macpherson of Drumochter was was Chairman of Macpherson, Train & Co Ltd, food and produce importers and exporters. He was also involved in the Food Defence Plans organisation from 1938 to 1939 and archive.is/4UrjK
served Chairman of the London Provision Exchange and as a Member of the Port of London Authority.
Macpherson was appointed Governor of Nigeria (Governor-General from 1954)..
"As Governor of Nigeria, John Stuart Macpherson was responsible for the introduction of the 1951 Constitution (unofficially known as the Macpherson Constitution ), which provided for "semi-responsible government". 👀
The next revision of the constitution was called the Lyttleton Constitution after Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos. It was enacted in 1954 &firmly established the federal principle. This paved the way for Nigeria's independence from Great Britain 👀
In other news:
"Among the casualties in yesterday's HHS firings: the chief of the department of bioethics at NIH’s Clinical Center, Christine Grady, who happens to be Anthony Fauci's wife."
July 22, 2016 By Maggie Cochrane
"Two weeks ago, Jack Dausman (Nyumbani USA Board Member) and myself had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Stephen Nicholas, Associate Dean of Admissions, at Columbia Medical Center’s College of Physicians & Surgeons.".. archive.is/vNCB2
"9 Oct 2023 — Chairman Martin Rapaport calls on [diamond and jewelry] trade to boycott Iran and other Hamas supporters, following unprovoked attack on Jewish state."
"The Rapaport Group is with Israel. We support the right of Israel to defend itself and pray for the thousands of innocent people attacked by Hamas and for the innocent Palestinians who will suffer because of Hamas’s savage attacks." rapaport.com/news/rapaport-…
"Rapaport has been both a pioneer and a controversial figure, advocating for price transparency, ethical sourcing, and the commoditization of diamonds. His work extends beyond market analysis to include contributions to addressing conflict diamonds," en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Ra…
Wiki : "The De Beers Group is a South African–British corporation that specializes in the diamond industry, including mining, exploitation, retail, inscription, grading, trading and industrial diamond manufacturing"
"The company is active in open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial and coastal mining. It operates in 35 countries with mining taking place in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Canada."
"On December 6, 1989,he murdered 14 women and wounded another 10 women and 4 men in what is known as the École Polytechnique massacre. It took place at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_L%C3…
Marc Lépine was born Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi on October 26, 1964, in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Algerian immigrant Rachid Liass Gharbi and Canadian nurse Monique Lépine (director of nursing at a Montreal hospital)..
"the Foreign Office told Lownie they cannot provide him with information relating to the prince’s visits to Egypt, the UAE, Kuwait, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, partly on the grounds of cost."
"The prince’s visit to Saudi Arabia in 2011 was also rejected due to the fact it would cost the department too much to collect the information for the author."🤔
"Lownie told Declassified: “Over the last four years, I have made over a hundred FOI requests…without eliciting any information on Prince Andrew’s decade as a taxpayer-funded Special Trade Representative.
“Every possible exemption has been deployed to avoid releasing papers"