Posts Tagged ‘Family’

Following the publication of our book ‘The Thyssen Art Macabre’ (Quartet Books, London, 2007), the Fritz Thyssen Foundation finally commissioned its own Aufarbeitung, namely a series of ten academic books under the title ‘Thyssen in the 20th Century. Family – Enterprises – Public’, publication of which began in 2014.

We have so far reviewed five of these works (click on title to see review):

1) Alexander Donges: The United Steelworks under National Socialism. Concern Politics between Market Economy and State Economy

2) Thomas Urban: Forced Labour at Thyssen. United Steelworks and Baron-Concern during World War Two

3) Johannes Gramlich: The Thyssens as Art Collectors. Investment and Symbolic Capital (1900-1970)

4a) Simone Derix: The Thyssens. Family and Fortune

(and specifically about the Rechnitz Massacre):

4b) Simone Derix Shrouds Thyssen Guilt

5a) Felix de Taillez: Two Burghers Lives in the Public Eye. The Brothers Fritz Thyssen and Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza

(with the following two additions):

5b) Fritz Thyssen and the Forced Sterilisation of 400,000 Germans

5c) The Fritz Thyssen Foundation Admits its Role in Banishing the Shadows of the Family’s Nazi Past

Georg Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (‘Heini Junior’) (19.03.1950 – 30.09.2022)     I liked ‘Heini Junior’, because he trusted us to write his father’s history. As did his father! May they both Rest In Peace. (photo copyright Nomis Foundation Zürich)