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(She is a head taller than the shipping tycoon, she is pretty, tall and slim and the lip rouge on her mouth is black and in stark contrast to her white skin - I notice instantly.)
„A great pleasure to meet you, Madam,“
I say, when she puts out her hand to me and as a reminiscence to my Austrian roots, I bent over to kiss her hand in the perfect fashion, as one does in Vienna, ever so lightly, without touching the skin. She smiles. Her beauty dazzles me. (Later Katsourakis would be abandoned by his wife, or his muse - I never did get to know that exactly. She fell in love with the tycoon’s landscape gardener. Neither power not money could prevent that. A woman in love leaves a man, just because she is in love - such things happen - even to the powerful).
"So... you are German...You know I have German ancestors, from Dresden ... a long time ago...Let us hope we can do business for a long time."
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The conversation continues for a bit further until Katsourakis apologizes. He has, so he says; to take care of his bankers, the „bloodsuckers“. The audience is over. The people there notice me, and many come up to me and exchange business cards.
"We’ll have to meet, Dr. Weyrauch, perhaps we can work together on business .. call me shortly before your next visit ...“
I hear from many a mouth. My head is turning, I am content but also tired I want to get home and hit my bed - but were is home? Here in Greece doors are opening up for me big time, that is what I instantly feel. Here lays my future. In my later life I was never to lose contact with that country. I love the island state.
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After that life took its normal course again. I commuted between Hamburg, Greece and England. There were frequent meetings with George Philpott, who shortly after the Fastnet experience had left the Salvage Association and joined an Insurance Brokerage Firm by the name of Frank Power as a Director for Marine Business – a Firm in which Klaus Friedrich Weyrauch was the majority shareholder. That was unknown to me as many things in my surroundings, as I later should find out. George also needed a fundamental change of direction on his passage through life. He had “enough of claims”-
“I nearly became a fatality myself”
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