Maximilian Bern

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Maximiliam Bern (November 11 1849 - September 10 1923) was a German writer and editor. After spending his entire life savings (100,000 marks) on a single subway ticket during the hyperinflation period in Germany in the 1920's, he returned to his apartment where he starved to death.

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Otto Friedrich, Before the Deluge - A Portrait of Belrin in the 1920s, Harper Row, ISBN-10: 0060926791

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