Contents Abbreviations (Page xiii) Acknowledgements (Page xv) Introduction (Page 3) Prologue (Page 5) 1996: Heini & Tita ... Lunch on the Costa Brava Meeting in Spain, with the Baron and Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza prior to the Thyssen v. Thyssen court case in Bermuda : The final chapter in the $3.5 billion legal battle between Heini and his eldest son. Chapter I (Page 13) 1685—1900 : 'Old' August Thyssen ... The myth of the self-made man The Thyssens' rise to power : The birth of August Thyssen: His privileged education: His and his sister's financially motivated marriages: The vital contribution of his brother Josef: The creation of the Thyssen brothers' industrial empire : August's brilliant but ruthless business methods: The birth of his four children : The collapse of his marriage leading to a crippling settlement which resulted in the loss of ownership of his industrial empire : The arrival of the Price family. The Thyssen Art Macabre Chapter II (Page 33) 1900-1915 : The arrival of the Bornemiszas ... Buying into the aristocracy August Thyssen's status as the first German billionaire and one of the richest men in the world : The acquisition of a castle and his foundation of an art collection : His son Heinrich's purchase of the title of Baron from the Bornemisza family and assumption of the role of Hungarian aristocrat as the Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza : The first Thyssen v. Thyssen court battle between father and son : Start of company's war production. Chapter III (Page 52) 1915-1926 : Blood & iron ... The profits of war The death of August's brother Josef: August's sons, Heinrich and Fritz's introduction to the business : Founding of Dutch bank : Their profitable survival of the First World War : Heinrich's flight to Holland from the communist revolution in Hungary : Development of family's anti- Semitism : Birth of Heini and separation of parents : Heini's childhood : Beginning of Fritz and Heinrich's involvement with Hitler and the Nazi Party : Founding of Heinrich's American bank : The death of August Thyssen and his dreams of a dynasty. Chapter IV (Page 78) 1926-1939 : Financing Hitler ... Re-arming the Reich Fritz and Heinrich's division of their father's financial and industrial empire : Formation and integration with United Steel Trust: Development of offshore ownership in Switzerland : Continuation of Fritz's financing of the Nazis : Opening of August Thyssen Bank in Berlin : Founding of Heinrich's art collection and acquisition of Villa Favorita : Brothers' flourishing relationship with Goring: Fritz and Amelie's membership of the Nazi Party: Heini's attendance at a Nazi school in Holland : Heini's brother Stephan's shooting of his girlfriend in Hungary: Heinrich's acquisition of a confiscated Jewish racing stables : Fritz and Heinrich's profiting from Third Reich's demand for armaments and Contents ix financial services: Fritz and Heinrich's gold deposits in London : Fritz's daughter's escape from Germany to his Argentinian safe haven : Heinrich's flight to Switzerland, followed by Heini. Chap)te! r V (Page 135) 1939-1945 : Banking for the Nazis ... Massacring the Jews Fritz's flight from Germany ahead of war; participation in the production of1Paid Hitler before arrest and return to privileged incarceration: Goring's confiscation of Fritz's industrial holdings : Heinrich's continued control of his German companies from Switzerland, including U-boat production : Heini's avoidance of German military service and increasing involvement in his father's activities : Supply of international financial services by Heinrich's August Thyssen Bank to the Nazi counter- intelligence : Stephan's work on V-rockets and armament design : Blocking of Union Bank of New York's transfer of Nazi funds to Argentina : Transfer of power from Heinrich to Heini : Margit's relationship with the SS and her part in the Jewish massacre at Rechnitz. Chapter VI (Page 185) 1945—1954 : Heini seizes power ... Uncle Fritz escapes to South America Heini's retrieval of German industrial assets and banks with the assistance of the Americans: Fritz's liberation and interrogation by Americans before escape to Argentina : Illegal retrieval of documents from Berlin to Rotterdam in 'Operation Juliana': Stephan's flight from Germany to Monte Carlo and Cuba : Fritz's death : Inheritance of his fortune by his wife and daughter : Their return to Munich from Argentina to run eighty-five companies with the largest single block of Thyssen AG shares : Death of Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza: Heini's inheritance of his father's empire after a bitter dispute with his brother and sisters: Retrieval of gold from Bank of England : Marriage to Princess Theresa zu Lippe : Her alleged affair with his brother-in-law which Heini claimed to result in the birth of Georg or 'Heini Junior': Heini's fight for Swiss nationality. The Thyssen Art Macabre Chapitei r VII (Page 244) 1954-1967: The playboy years ... One divorce, two weddings & a panther Heini's divorce from Theresa, resulting in a divisive and extremely expensive alimony settlement: Marriage to the sexually exotic Nina Dyer and adoption of playboy lifestyle : His divorce from Nina and marriage to Fiona Campbell-Walter : The birth of two children, only one of which is his : Fiona's affairs: Heini's rivalry with Niarchos and Onassis: Divorce from Fiona : His investment in art and loss of three banks. Chapi>ter VIII (Page 285) 1967—1981: The murder of his wife's lover... The creation of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Heini's corporate abandonment of Germany and adoption of America : His love for Diana von Buch and marriage to Denise Shorto: Indictment in Italian art smuggling: Decline in Thyssen Bornemisza Group profits : Murder of Denise's lover in New York : Peaking of Heini's art acquisitions : Heini Junior's arrival at TBG : Heini's admission to suffering from alcoholism. Chapter IX (Page 327) 1981-1988 : Enter Tita... The Spanish connection Commencement of affair with Tita Cervera while divorcing Denise : Settlement including $80 million worth of jewellery removed from Villa Favorita : Creation of complex Bermudan trust ownership : Promotion of the Collection and exchange of pictures with the Russians : Heini's marriage to Tita and adoption of her son Borja: Junior's assumption of control of TBG. Contents xi Chapter X (Page 358) 1983—1993 : By royal appointment... The $ 600 million art sale Heini's first stroke : Heini Junior's curtailment of his father's excessive spending: Heini's move to Spain : Tita's assistance in selling half his art collection to Spain. Chap>te! r XI (Page 395) 1993—2001 : Thyssen v. Thyssen ... The $150 million court case Family's share-out of remaining pictures and proceeds from Spanish art sale: Commencement of Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection : Heini's survival of cardio-vascular surgery and resulting coma: Tita's confrontation with Heini Junior over money owing to Heini: Tita's discovery of $350 million liquid assets held by Thyssen Bornemisza Group: Heini and Tita's action against Junior for the retrieval of the ownership of TBG, claimed to be worth $3.5 billion : The eighteen-month Thyssen v. Thyssen Bermudan court case estimated to cost $150 million : Collapse of the trial. Chapter XII (Page 432) 2001—2006: The Fall of the House of Thyssen-Bornemisza Heini's million settlement: His death two months later and with no legitimate male heirs, the end of the house of Thyssen-Bornemisza: Continuation of familial inheritance battles: The division and sale of TBG. Sources (Page 442) Index (Page 454) PPN: 264948033 Titel: The Thyssen art macabre / David R. L. Litchfield. In collaboration with Caroline Schmitz. - . - London : Quartet Books, 2006 ISBN: 0-7043-7119-7; 978-0-7043-7119-4 Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund.