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About Adolph Woermann
Adolph Woermann was a German merchant, shipowner and politician, who was also instrumental in the establishment of German colonies in Africa. In his time he was the largest German trader to West Africa and – with his Woermann-Linie – the largest private shipowner in the world. He remains a controversial figure, for the fact that he accumulated his vast fortunes from exploitation and war profiteering, particularly during the Herero Wars.
Everything about Adolph Woermann →- Occupation
- politician, merchant, ship-owner
- Position held
- member of the Reichstag of the German Empire, member of the Hamburg Bürgerschaft
- Citizenship
- Hamburg
- Born
- December 10, 1847
- Died
- May 4, 1911