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unusual facts about Thyssen-Henschel



Alberto Henschel

The newspaper A Província de São Paulo (currently O Estado de S. Paulo), while describing with minimal details the new atelier in its inaugural day edition, related the enthusiasm with which Henschel was received by the residents of São Paulo.

DRB Class 03.10

In 1949 and 1950, the 26 Class 03.10 locomotives remaining with the Deutsche Bundesbahn were refurbished by Henschel in Kassel.

Finding in the Temple

In late medieval depictions, the Doctors, often now carrying or consulting large volumes, may be given specifically Jewish features or dress, and are sometimes overtly anti-Semitic caricatures, like some of the figures in Albrecht Dürer's version in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.

Franz Benque

With Alberto Henschel (1827-1882), a German from Berlin that migrated to Brazil in 1866, owner of the company Photographia Allemã (German Photography) with studios in Bahia and Pernambuco, Benque established the partnership Henschel & Benque Photographia Allemã that would become one of the most renowned Brazilian photography houses in that time.

Friedrich Thyssen

He was the beginner of the Thyssen fortune and the father of August Thyssen and Joseph Thyssen, both of whom joined his bank.

Joachim Kroll

Afterwards he worked for Thyssen Industries and went to 24 Friesen street, Laar, a district of Duisburg.

Karl Saur

After graduation, he joined Thyssen, then took over the running of the family engineering firm in Freiburg after the death of his father.

Saur went back to Thyssen in 1929 and was director of the August Thyssen-Hütte.

La Trochita

The line is in possession of 22 steam locomotives, 11 Henschel and 11 Baldwins 2-8-2 "Mikado" type locomotives, 7 of which are currently operable, 2 Baldwin and 3 Henschel in the Maitén - Esquel section, and 2 Baldwin locomotives in the Jacobacci section.

Marcia Bell

Among her circle of friends in those days we can cite: María del Carmen Martínez-Bordiú y Franco (Ex Duchess of Cadiz), Adolfo Suárez (former Spanish president), Carmen Cervera (Baroness Tita Thyssen - Bornemisza), Miguel Bosé (singer), Rocío Durcal (singer), Donna Hightower (singer) or Salvador Dalí (painter) to name a few.

Maschinenbauanstalt Humboldt

In 1925 the Öllokomotivenbau (Oil Locomotive Works) resulted, in which Humboldt, the Gasmotoren-Fabrik Deutz and the locomotive works of Henschel & Sohn at Kassel had shares.

Milton George Henschel

In June, 1963, Henschel was a guest on a talk show hosted by Larry King.

Robert L. Genillard

During the last twenty years, Genillard has also been quite active in industry, notably with ties – since 1970 – to the Thyssen-Bornemisza Group, an industrial employing some 20.000 people worldwide at the time, having led the parent company, TBG Holdings N.V. as its Chief Executive from 1977 to 1983, and having served as Deputy Chairman of its Supervisory Board between 1971 and 1994.

South African Class 19D 4-8-2

Two were built by Henschel for the Nkana copper mines in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1952, numbered 337 and 338 in the Rhodesia Railways number range.

Spencer Compton, 7th Marquess of Northampton

1) Baroness Henriette Luisa Bentinck (b. in London, 1949–2010), the daughter of Baron Adolph Bentinck and Baroness Gabrielle Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon.

TH-495

TH-495 was a infantry combat vehicle being proposed by German-based Thyssen-Henschel for NATO countries, but it was primarily being pitched to the Canadian Forces and the then government of Brian Mulroney in the 1990s.

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, or in Spanish Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (named after its founder), is an art museum in Madrid, Spain, located near the Prado Museum at one of city's main boulevards.

Other highlights include works by the most famous Renaissance and Baroque painters, including Antonello da Messina (Portrait of a Man), Titian, Sebastiano del Piombo, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, Murillo, Rembrandt and Frans Hals and portraits by Domenico Ghirlandaio and Vittore Carpaccio.

Till-Holger Borchert

He has curated a number of major exhibitions, including "Memling's Portraits", which showed in Bruges, at the Frick Collection in New York and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.

Union Banking Corporation

Fritz Thyssen resigned from the Council of State after November 9, 1938 Kristallnacht, was arrested in 1940, and spent the remainder of the war in a sanatorium and in concentration camps.

Wegmann

Henschel-Wegmann Train : a unique passenger express train operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Germany


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