Maximilian Bern

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 around Old Berlin during the devastating hyperinflation period in Germany in the 1920's, he returned to his apartment where -unable to support himself- he starved to death.

References

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

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Name	Bern, Maximilian
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Date of birth	November 11, 1849
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Date of death	September 10, 1923
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