Max Waechter
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Sir Max Leonard Waechter, geborener Wächter, (* 3. Oktober 1837 in Stettin; † 3. Oktober 1924) war ein britischer Geschäftsmann, Kunstsammler, Philanthrop und Vordenker der Einigung Europas.
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Sir Max Leonard Waechter (3 October 1837 – 3 October 1924) was a businessman, art collector, philanthropist and advocate of a federal Europe. Waechter was born in Stettin, then in Germany and now Szczecin in Poland. His father was Julius Leonard Waechter, a Lutheran pastor. He went to England in 1859 and was naturalised as a British citizen in 1865. Waechter became a partner in Bessler, Waechter, and Co., a merchant firm. He advocated improved relations between Britain and Germany and in 1913 founded the European Federation League.
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Max Waechter
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Max Waechter
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Max Waechter
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Max Waechter
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1924
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Stettin, Germany
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his advocacy of a federal Europe
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German; naturalised as a British citizen in 1865
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businessman, art collector and philanthropist
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Sir Max Leonard Waechter, geborener Wächter, (* 3. Oktober 1837 in Stettin; † 3. Oktober 1924) war ein britischer Geschäftsmann, Kunstsammler, Philanthrop und Vordenker der Einigung Europas.
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Sir Max Leonard Waechter (3 October 1837 – 3 October 1924) was a businessman, art collector, philanthropist and advocate of a federal Europe. Waechter was born in Stettin, then in Germany and now Szczecin in Poland. His father was Julius Leonard Waechter, a Lutheran pastor. He went to England in 1859 and was naturalised as a British citizen in 1865. Waechter became a partner in Bessler, Waechter, and Co., a merchant firm. He advocated improved relations between Britain and Germany and in 1913 founded the European Federation League. Waechter lived in Terrace House on Richmond Hill. He held the post of High Sheriff of Surrey in 1902 and was knighted in the 1902 Birthday Honours. Waechter married twice. His first wife, whom he married at St John the Divine, Richmond in 1873, was Harriett Shallcross, whose father, the Liberal MP Thomas Cave, owned Queensberry House. His second wife was Armatrude Hobart. His only son, Harry Waechter, also a businessman and philanthropist, was created a baronet in 1911.
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