Otto Hermann Kahn Otto Hermann Kahn Otto Hermann Kahn (February 21, 1867 – March 29, 1934) was a German-born American investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. Otto was born on February 21, 1867 in Mannheim, Germany, and raised there, by his Jewish parents, Emma (née Eberstadt) and Bernard Kahn. His father had been among the refugees to the United States after the revolution of 1848 and had become an American citizen, but later returned to Germany. Kahn was educated in a gymnasium in Mannheim. Kahn's ambition was to be a musician, and he learned to play several instruments before he
Arthur Kahn Kahn did not run for re-election in 1912, and was succeeded by fellow Socialist Edward Zinn. Arthur Kahn Arthur Kahn (November 9, 1875 or 1874 - December 31, 1930) was a baker, trade union activist and organizer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who served one term as a Socialist member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Born in Aussig , (now Usti nad Labem ) Bohemia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in November 1875, Kahn came to the United States at the age of 15 and began to work in a bakery. He served as a business agent for the Milwaukee Bakers Union, as