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What if this is the Roman empire and the just moved?
>A.W. Faber, the original name of the company, is the oldest company brand in the USA
>Founded in 1761 by Kasper Faber, AW Faber Bleystiftwerke made pencils. One of his successors was Johann Lothar, Freiherr von Faber; his granddaughter Baroness Ottilie married Alexander Graf von Castell-Rüdenhausen in 1898.
>Roland von Faber-Castell (1905–1978) was the last sole heir to the Faber-Castell fortune. The Count successfully merged the companies Faber-Castell and Johann Faber. Roland was CEO of Faber-Castell for 50 years. Count Roland's first wife, Alix-May (1907–1979) was born into the Cologne-based banking dynasty Oppenheim. The marriage was disrupted through antisemitic attacks, because her grandfather, prominent banker Eduard von Oppenheim was a born Jew.
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>Hubertus was a pioneer in Chinese commercial television and has been awarded, as the only European in history, the honorary citizenship of China's capital city Beijing. The mother of Hubertus was, among other things, co-owner of Europe's biggest private bank, Sal. Oppenheim Jr & Cie.
That's just one family. When the nobility was subverted and lost feudal lamd-based wealth, they sold off or leased eatates to kndustrialists and developers. They married into wealthy bourgeois/industrial families (e.g., Rothschilds, Krupps). They invested in or founded banks, railways, and early factories (Habsburg offshoots in Central European banking, Russian nobles Baku petroleum). Historians like to zoom in to the domestic level without acknowledging that the same thing had occurred ubiquitously—nobility was aubverted and their power usurped, absorbed, or otherwise shifted toward positions of control of commerce. In other words, nobility was demoted and the merchant class was promoted to the dominant position in society. Who really benefited the most from all of those revolutions and continues to benefit to this day?
>Western Europe: Earlier shift (18th–19th century), e.g., British gentry into finance and colonial trade
>Eastern Europe & Russia: Later transition, disrupted by revolutions (e.g., Bolsheviks)
That latter is quite peculiar. Isn't it odd that Bolshevism ultimately paved the way for aristocratic-bourgeois capitalism?