Counsel’ Wilhelm Kunstmann, ninety, dean of German shippers and responsible for developing the German Baltic commercial fleet, died today in Stettin.
The German press praised Kunstmann highly without mentioning the fact that he was a devout Jew who was extremely interested in Jewish affairs.
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