Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1887 — Richest Man in Germany. [ARTICLE]

Richest Man in Germany.

The official German income-tax returns, says the London Standard, show that the #uan who is rated highest in all Prussia is Herr Krupp, the iron-makep, of Essen, ifis income is assessed at more than 5,-0(H),000 marks, or £250,000 sterling, on which he pays 151,200 marks; or £7,560 annual ly. Next eonit's Baron Rothschild, off Frankfort-on-the-Main, with an income of 2,750,000, paving a tax of 81,000 marks, or £4,050 per annum. Then follows the British consul general, Baron Bleichroder, of Berlin, with, an income of about 2,340,000 marks, paying nn annual tax of 68,400 marks; or £3,420. The two next richest men in Prussia are two Silesian ir. irnastefs. The only ■ other Prussian w ith an income of over 11,000,000 marks are Baron Hansemann i and'a Westphalian magnate, each of ' whom pave rather more than £1,500 * year to the tr>-asnrv. ' Thk student of hu>'ian character is inclined to be a liitle testy.