Theodore Garbade

Theodore Garbade (1916)

Theodore Dietrich Garbade (born on September 12, 1873 in Bremen ; died on January 26, 1961 in Flims ) was a businessman , banker , president of the Cuban Cigar Association and member of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce until 1916.

biography

As a young man he moved from Bremen to Cuba, where he initially worked as a leaf buyer for the tobacco industry . He was president of the Cuban Cigar Manufacturers Association. Through Hermann Upmann, he joined the H. Upmann cigar factory founded by his father, Hermann Dietrich Upmann , and became a partner in the H.Upmann & Co. banking house, which he left in 1916. Until 1916 Garbade was on the board of directors of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce, the Cámara de Comercio de la República de Cuba .

Theodore Garbade played a significant role in the dispute over customs duties between Cuba and the United States . The Revenue Act 1913 , also known as the Tariff Act, or the Underwood Act , introduced by President Woodrow Wilson , set the lowest rates for Americans since the Walker Tariff of 1857. This had a profound impact on the Cuban sugar and tobacco industries in terms of their imports into the states. As president of the Association of cigar manufacturers Cuba, discussed Garbade the Cuban President Mario García Menocal in January 1914, the problem, and insisted on 50 percent of their exports of cigars as equivalent in Cuba next reciprocity agreement. His insistence on a quick solution to this matter was heard, as the President himself was one of the largest sugar plantation owners on the island.

Garbade was a German citizen and was therefore declared a prisoner of war in the United States in 1916 and placed under house arrest in his home on Mount Kisko, New York, until 1918 . In 1920 he moved to Spain and in 1923 to Lucerne , where he successfully applied for a Swiss passport .

As the owner and partner of plantations and companies in Cuba, a large part of his fortune lost due to the Cuban Revolution in 1960 . He died just a year later. Garbade was married four times. His first son, Theodore Angel de la Caridad Garbade (1906–1985), came from his first marriage to Graziella Aguirre del Monte (1879–1909). In his second marriage to the daughter of the entrepreneur Emilio Heydrich , Aida Heydrich Cubero y Casals (1887–1920), he had two sons: Robert D. Garbade (1918–1983), filmmaker (and first cameraman on Swiss television ) and Bernhard Garbade ( 1917–) Director of the insurance company "Zurich" , philanthropist and sponsor of the manufacture of Max Maag church organs.

Garbade died in 1961 at the age of 88. He is buried with his last wife Hildegard von Ohlen in the Flims Waldhaus cemetery in Switzerland.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cuba: Colección legislativa . tape 46 . Rambla y Bouza, Barcelona 1920, p. 249 ( google.co.uk [accessed October 9, 2017]).
2. ↑ United States Tobacco Journal . vol 83.BMT Publications, New York 1915, pp. 5/72/90 ( google.co.uk [accessed October 9, 2017]).
3. ↑ LuEsther T. Mertz Library New York Botanical Garden: The Cuba review . New York: Munson Steamship Line, 1907 ( archive.org [accessed October 9, 2017]).
4. ↑ Sir Thomas Skinner (beard.): The London Banks and Kindred Companies and Firms ... Ed .: T. Skinner & Company. T. Skinner & Company, London 1916, p. 504 ( google.co.uk [accessed October 9, 2017]).
5. ↑ Cámara de Comercio de la República de Cuba: Boletin oficial . Havana, Cuba 1916, p. 424/621 ( google.co.uk [accessed October 9, 2017]).
6. ^ The Cuba Review. In: Vol February 13 , 1914, p. 108 , accessed October 9, 2017 (English). 
7. ^ Francisco Xavier de Santa Cruz y Mallén (conde de San Juan de Jaruco): Historia de familias cubanas . Editorial Hércules, 1940, ISBN 978-0-89729-408-9 , p. 3 ( google.co.uk [accessed October 9, 2017]).
8. ↑ England & Wales Citvil registration marriage index, 1916-2005, page no 1511, Ohlen, Garbade