Baron Sándor Hatvany-Deutsch (1852 – 1913) was a leading Hungarian

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, business magnate, philanthropist, investor and art patron. He led the family's sugar company with its factories ''Nagy-Surányi Cukorgyár és Finomító Rt.'' (est. 1854, Nagysurány), ''Hatvani Cukorgyár Rt.'' (est. 1889,

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), ''Oroszkai Cukorgyár Rt.'' (est. 1893, Oroszka), ''Vas megyei Cukorgyár Rt.'' (est. 1895, Sárvár) and the ''Alföldi Cukorgyár Rt.'' (est. 1910, Sarkad) which made him one of the wealthiest persons in

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. He founded in 1902 with Ferenc Chorin the ''National Alliance of Industrialists'' (''Gyáriparosok Országos Szövetsége (GYOSZ)'') and was the first vice president of the association. According to

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he was the 4th richest person in

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on the turn of the 19th century with a net worth of 25–30 million Hungarian pengő.

Life

His father, József Deutsch, was knighted for his economic achievements in 1879 by the Emperor and allowed to use the prefix 'de Hatvan'. After his studies, Sándor Deutsch de Hatvan joined the family trading business, and with the help of his cousins, made it into a major player in the sugar industry. Through their firm, Ignatz Deutsch & Sons, founded in Arad in 1822 and later moved to Budapest, the cousins grew

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on large estates, set up refineries across Hungary for processing and exported their sugar on world markets. Although sugar was the source of the vast Hatvany fortune, the family was also involved in flour mills and grain trading, banking, among other activities. In 1908, Sándor was made a baron by

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, became a member of the Senate, and assumed the name Hatvany-Deutsch. Sándor Hatvany-Deutsch participated in the creation of the National Association of Hungarian Industrialists in 1902, supported hospitals and sponsored a theater in Budapest. His son Baron Ferenc Hatvany would accumulate Hungary's most valuable collection of paintings before it was seized by the Nazis during

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. Another son, Baron became a gifted Hungarian writer.

References

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, '' The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia'', Vol. 5, p. 249.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20070707021245/http://www.hungarianquarterly.com/no150/053.html Hungary's Pillaged Art Heritage: The Fate of the Hatvany Collection - By László Mravik * https://web.archive.org/web/20120307223223/http://www.ulpiushaz.hu/doc/frankfurti_katalogus.pdf Baron Lajos Hatvany - Men and Gentlemen * https://web.archive.org/web/20110723142633/http://www.hatvanymuzeum.net/gyujtemenyek/torteneti/24 Hatvany Lajos Múzeum: Hatvany Deutsch Dynasty (Hungarian language) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hatvany-Deutsch, Sandor 1852 births 1913 deaths People from Arad, Romania Jews from Austria-Hungary Barons of Austria Hungarian nobility Hungarian investors Businesspeople from Austria-Hungary Hungarian industrialists Hungarian chief executives Hungarian bankers Hungarian Jews 19th-century Hungarian businesspeople Sandor

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