August Thyssen was a German industrialist. He was born in 1842 in Eschweiler and died on April 4, 1926 on his castle Schloss Landsberg. After he had completed his studies at the Polytechnische Schule Karlsruhe and a commercial school at Antwerp he like his brother Joseph joined the bank of his father "Friedrich Thyssen". In 1867 Thyssen and several members of his family founded the iron works „Thyssen-Foussol & Co“ in Duisburg. Wikipedia
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