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The
Oscar and Elsa BRAUN Foundation
"The Oscar and Elsa
Braun Foundation" is a non for profit organization
for the progress of medicine and health based in Santiago,
Chile.
Mr. Oscar Braun Hamburger
(1870-1937), native of Latvia, a Baltic republic governed
by Russia, was the third son of Mr. Elias H. Braun
and Mrs. Sofia Hamburger whom emigrated from Russia
to Magellan in southern Chile in 1874.
Mr. Oscar Braun Hamburger
married Mrs. Elsbeth Saalfeld who was born in Germany
in 1900. The couple did not have descendants and Mrs.
Saalfeld legacy iniciated the Oscar & Elsa Braun
Foundation when she died in 1956.
The Braun Dinasty
In Magellan, Mr. and Mrs. Elías Braun received
from the Chilean government a small plot of land,
some animals and food for six months in exchange for
settling in the zone.
In two decades the Braun
family had gained control over nearly 1.376.160 hectares
of land in the Argentinian and Chilean Patagonia.
On that land they raised
1.250.000 sheep that produced yearly 5.000 million
kilograms of wool, 700 thousand kilograms of leather
and 2.500.000 kilograms of meat.
The Braun properties included
from the Chubut in Argentina to the Strait of Magellan.
The Braun also owned a
mining company, banks, ships, insurance companies,
telephone services, etc.
The Braun family from Magellan
has descendants in both Chile and Argentina today.
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