In addition, five DAX companies--Commerzbank, Infineon, Metro, Schering and Thyssen-Krupp--already comply with all governance coderecommendations.
Thyssen's boss, Dieter Vogel, claimed that merging the two companies would cost 30, 000 jobs.
Germany's Thyssen Krupp last week announced that its pre-tax profits slid sharply during the past two quarters.
Both Thyssen and Krupp's workers went on strike and there was talk of a customer boycott of the two banks.
It worked on Deutsche Telekom's privatisation and was a big influence behind Krupp's 1997 hostile-turned-friendly bid for Thyssen, another steel maker.
His likeness, thanks to Holbein's famous portraits in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and elsewhere, is so well known that it almost qualifies as a brand.
Mr Litchfield declares that his role was as Thyssen's confessor.
The equally prestigious Museo Carmen Thyssen opened in 2011.
For example, Mr Litchfield alleges that Thyssen's fourth wife and her lover took a commission from the seller on all Thyssen's purchases, of which there were no fewer than 800 during their marriage.
Gregarious, engaging and comfortable in seven languages, David cultivated relationships with the likes of dealer Kahnweiler and billionaire art collector Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, who bought works by Picasso, Kandinsky and Italian futurist Giacomo Balla.
All this forced Krupp first into talks with Thyssen about an agreed merger of the two companies' core steel businesses, and then into abandoning the hostile bid altogether, leaving a steel joint venture as the only option.
And Thyssen's fifth wife, Carmen Cervera, a former Miss Spain known as Tita, refused to visit the hairdresser because she feared that hair and nail clippings could be used to prepare a curse on her and her husband.
Unlike more ambitious collectors such as Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, whose broad range of master-paintings is housed at the imposing Villahermosa Palace in Madrid, Mr Beyeler does not claim to have mounted an exhaustive panorama that takes in every movement in 20th-century art.
He spins an extraordinary tale of great industrial wealth, compulsive acquisition of art, decorated with complicated sub-plots involving serial adultery and divorce. (His failure to decide whether this is industrial history, art history or good gossip must explain the meaningless title.) Thyssen had five wives, though Mr Litchfield's account of these marriages was at the mercy of Thyssen's memory, which was impaired by alcoholism and the arrogance of wealth.
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