His father had been a prosperous merchant.

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He was born in Riga, Latvia, the son of a prosperous timber merchant.

ECONOMIST: Sir Isaiah Berlin

Horst was born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann back in 1906 in the eastern German town of Weisenfels-an-der-Saale, the second son of a prosperous hardware merchant.

FORBES: Haute Horst