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Baron Maurice de Hirsch

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German-born financier, 1831–1896, who on 17 April 1869 took the Ottoman concession to build and operate some 2,500 km of railway connecting Constantinople with Vienna, and in 1870 formed the company known as the Chemins de fer Orientaux. He is the answer to the question the Orient Express story usually skips — somebody had to finance and build the track through Ottoman Europe before a luxury sleeper could be attached to anything. The concession terms, a guaranteed payment per completed kilometre, made the enterprise financially attractive and politically contentious, and the programme was cut back in renegotiation from 1871. Hirsch later became one of the largest philanthropists of the nineteenth century, largely on this fortune.

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    1. Story
    2. German-born financier, 1831–1896, who on 17 April 1869 took the Ottoman concession to build and operate some 2,500 km of railway connecting Constantinople with Vienna, and in 1870 formed the company known as the Chemins de fer Orientaux. He is the answer to the question the Orient Express story usually skips — somebody had to finance and build the track through Ottoman Europe before a luxury sleeper could be attached to anything. The concession terms, a guaranteed payment per completed kilometre, made the enterprise financially attractive and politically contentious, and the programme was cut back in renegotiation from 1871. Hirsch later became one of the largest philanthropists of the nineteenth century, largely on this fortune.
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    4. Baron Maurice de Hirsch
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    6. Chemins de fer Orientaux (Oriental Railway)
    7. The Ottoman Porte grants Hirsch the Constantinople–Vienna railway concession
    8. Evidence
    9. Supports the 17 April 1869 Ottoman concession to Baron Maurice de Hirsch for c. 2,500 km of line linking Constantinople and Vienna, the 1870 founding of the Chemins de fer Orientaux, simultaneous construction starts at Constantinople, Dedeağaç, Salonica and Dobrljin in January 1870, and the 1871 renegotiation. V55 verification basis: an independent documented history rather than an archive; substance carried in attributed search results, PDF not retrieved.
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