The German press is printing to-day long obituaries and appreciations of the late Paul M. Warburg, adding some biographical notes recalling the long association of the Warburg family with Hamburg, where Mr. Paul M. Warburg, too, was born.
The City of Hamburg announces general mourning in memory of its illustrious son. The Hamburg papers point out that this illustrious American always remained a good Hamburger, and wherever it did not conflict with his American loyalties would try to help his German homeland. When he was 33 years of age, Mr. Paul Warburg was a member of the Hamburg City Council, and Hamburg citizens looked to him as one of their coming big men.
The “Vossische Zeitung” emphasises that Mr. Warburg always stood for American-German co-operation, and in his last years followed with intense anxiety the growing economic distress in Germany, and this was one of the causes of his breakdown and his weakened condition, helping to hasten his death.
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