The will of the deceased Hugo Stinnes, "King of Coke," was read but not published. According to report his entire fortune was left to his widow, Frau Klaire Stinnes, nee Wagenknecht; but the direction of his vast estate was placed in the hands of his two eldest sons, Dr. Edmund Hugo Stinnes and Hugo Hermann Stinnes, the former to be in charge of the Ruhr and Rhineland properties, the latter to oversee the family's interests in Berlin, run the shipping business and care for foreign properties.
The dead giant of industry admonished...
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