Family and Friends say Good-Bye to Baron Thyssen
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Family and Friends say Good-Bye to Baron Thyssen



BERLIN, GERMANY.- Baron Hans Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza was buried Tuseday afternoon at the family tomb at the Landsberg Castle, in Essen. His widow, Carmen Cervera, the five sons of the baron: Georg Henrich, Francesca, Lorne, Alexander and Borja; María Teresa de Lippe, Fiona Campbell and Denise Shorto, mothers of his four oldest sons, attended the private ceremony. At the family tomb also rest the founder of the Thyssen empire, August Thyssen and his youngest son Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, father of the baron Thyssen that just died. Also present at the funeral were Carlos Fernández de Henestrosa and Tomás Llorens from the Thyssen Museum, Mariano Zabía Lasala, Spanish undersecretary of Education and Culture, as well as José Pedro Sebastián de Erice, Spanish ambassador to Germany.










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