Moritz Hochschild Collection 1881-2000

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Moritz Hochschild Collection 1881-2000

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The collection documents the personal and professional life of MoritzHochschild, an important German Jewish mining entrepreneur in South America during the first half of the twentieth century. Most of the oldermaterials are copies, but there are also original certificates, correspondence, clippings and photographs.

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Hochschild, Moritz, 1881-1965

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Moritz Hochschild was born 1881 in Biblis (Hessen), a small town in Germany near Frankfurt. Members of his family were already in the mining and metal business. Eventually, he studied mining and engineering at the Bergakadamie Freiberg . He began his career working for the Metallgesellschaft, a metal trading company, in 1905 in Germany. He then went to Spain and later Australia before moving to South America to start his own business. After several years in Chile, he went back to Ge...