German born businessman and mining magnate in South Africa
For the British politician, art collector and philanthropist, see Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet.
Alfred Beit
Alfred Beit, by Giovanni Boldini
Born
(1853-02-15)15 February 1853
Hamburg, German Confederation
Died
16 July 1906(1906-07-16) (aged 53)
Tewin, Hertfordshire
Nationality
British
Alfred Beit (15 February 1853 – 16 July 1906) was an Anglo-German gold and diamond magnate in South Africa, and a major donor and profiteer of infrastructure development on the African continent. He also donated much money to university education and research in several countries, and was the "silent partner" who structured the capital flight from post-Boer War South Africa to Rhodesia. Beit's assets were structured around the so-called Corner House Group, which through its holdings in various companies controlled 37 per cent of the gold produced at the Witwatersrand's goldfields in Johannesburg in 1913.[1]
^See chapter 12 in Rönnbäck & Broberg (2019) Capital and Colonialism. The Return on British Investments in Africa 1869-1969 (Palgrave Studies in Economic History)</
AlfredBeit (15 February 1853 – 16 July 1906) was an Anglo-German gold and diamond magnate in South Africa, and a major donor and profiteer of infrastructure...
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AlfredBeit School is a primary school in the suburb of Mabelreign in Harare Zimbabwe. The school was named after AlfredBeit. The school offers education...
Blessington Lakes. Sir AlfredBeit bought Russborough in 1952 from Captain Daly to house his art collection and in 1976 established the AlfredBeit Foundation, a...
Beitbridge. The town lies just north of the Limpopo River about 1 km from the AlfredBeit Road Bridge which spans the Limpopo between South Africa and Zimbabwe...
Cecil Rhodes, who was financed by the South African diamond magnate AlfredBeit and the London-based N M Rothschild & Sons bank. In 1926, Ernest Oppenheimer...
1974 art raid on Russborough House in County Wicklow, the home of Sir AlfredBeit, 2nd Baronet, where Dugdale and other IRA members pistol-whipped the...
London's oldest and most historic buildings. Beit Hall is named after AlfredBeit and is located on Prince Consort Road, next to the Royal Albert Hall...
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2nd Duke of Abercorn, Rhodes himself, and the South African financier AlfredBeit. Rhodes hoped BSAC would promote colonisation and economic exploitation...
AlfredBeit, into the Jewish family of an affluent Hamburg trader. He went to England in 1888, where he joined the stockbroking firm of Wernher, Beit...
house was subsequently acquired by AlfredBeit, and his brother Sir Otto Beit inherited it in 1906. His son Sir AlfredBeit, 2nd Baronet, grew up there and...
stakeholder in the De Beers company in 1926, a company formerly controlled by AlfredBeit, also a Jewish German émigré. In the late 1940s and 1950s, the AAC focused...
name. Barney Barnato (1851–1897), British Randlord and diamond magnate AlfredBeit (1853–1906), Anglo-German gold and diamond magnate Thomas Cullinan (diamond...
Consolidated Mines Limited, with life governors such as Cecil John Rhodes, AlfredBeit, and Barney Barnato. This huge company further worked on the Big Hole...
British control. Having combined his commercial mining interests with AlfredBeit to form the De Beers Mining Corporation, the two men also wanted to control...
Julius Wernher and AlfredBeit and in 1884 joined them in the partnership of Jules Porgès & Co (later Wernher, Beit & Co).: 315 In 1885 Beit arranged for Hermann...
1909 by Sir Otto Beit, a German-born British financier, philanthropist and art connoisseur, in memory of his brother AlfredBeit. Beit Memorial Fellows...
cannery in 1903 and a jam factory in 1906. After Sir AlfredBeit's death in 1906, De Beers bought Beit and Rhodes's shares. Returns were never high and in...
Gainsboroughs and three Rubens from the Russborough House home of Sir AlfredBeit by armed members of the IRA. Led by the British heiress Rose Dugdale...
High School, where he was awarded the Beit Scholarship, established by diamond magnate and financier AlfredBeit. Verwoerd received the top marks for English...
mansion built on London's Park Lane in 1894–97 for the diamond magnate, AlfredBeit. The architects were the Scottish partnership of Eustace Balfour and...
home of Sir AlfredBeit, 2nd Baronet. Dugdale and three other IRA members forced their way into the house, and pistol-whipped Sir Alfred and his wife...
1918, on the basis of the AlfredBeit bequest and additional substantial gifts from mining magnates Julius Wernher and Otto Beit. The new university also...
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