Camillo Castiglioni
Camillo Castiglioni · Economics & Business
Financier, son of the chief rabbi of Trieste, credited as instrumental in the founding of what became BMW.
22 October 1879, Trieste, Austria-Hungary (now Italy) — 18 December 1957, Rome, Italy
Vienna, Austria & Milan, Italy
Camillo Castiglioni is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Financier, son of the chief rabbi of Trieste, credited as instrumental in the founding of what became BMW.
Son of the chief rabbi of Trieste, Camillo Castiglioni became the wealthiest man in Central Europe — a financier who bet on aviation when aviation was a rumour. Backing Austro-Daimler and the Bavarian aero-engine works, he was credited as instrumental in the founding of what became BMW, and he later held a controlling interest in it. He financed theatre and collected art on a princely scale; the crashes and controversies of interwar finance eventually cost him much of the fortune. The company whose propeller badge is on millions of cars began, in part, with a rabbi's son from Trieste.
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Financier, son of the chief rabbi of Trieste, credited as instrumental in the founding of what became BMW.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camillo_Castiglioni
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