1. Karl Otto Clemens Wittgenstein was a German-born Austrian steel tycoon.
11 Facts About Karl Wittgenstein
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Karl Wittgenstein was the father of concert pianist Paul Wittgenstein, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, and philanthropist Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein.
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Karl Wittgenstein's grandfather was Moses Meyer, an estate manager who came from Laasphe in the former Wittgenstein kreis.
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Karl Wittgenstein moved to Korbach before 1802, where he was a wool wholesaler.
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At first, Karl Wittgenstein's business became Korbach's biggest and most successful enterprise, but it soon began to decline.
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Karl Wittgenstein came from one of Vienna's most important business families, and like Hermann was Jewish by birth.
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Karl Wittgenstein was the sixth of eleven children of Hermann and Fanny.
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Karl Wittgenstein ran away from home at 11, and at 17 had been expelled from school for an essay he wrote in which he denied the "immortality of the soul".
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Karl Wittgenstein rapidly rose through the company, taking over Kupelweiser as Managing Director within five years.
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Karl Wittgenstein married Leopoldine Maria Josefa Kalmus, known among friends as Poldi, in 1873.
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Karl Wittgenstein was the only spouse of any of Hermann Christian's children who had a Jewish background; her father was a Bohemian Jew and her mother was Austrian-Slovene Catholic.