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211Faust it was because, as Heine said, they never reachedGoethe‟s age of eighty-three.In the Land Office Hugenberg decided to seek fame asa politician rather than a poet. Cattle-breeding was the fieldin which the ambitious young man hoped to earn eternalfame as “Assessor und Stellvertretender Lardrat,” the equivalentof a Deputy Land Councillor. He worked in EasternGermany and settled peasants on land reclaimed from theswamps. Even then he had his fits of high-patriotism, suchas when he was devising means to get the Polish landlordsout of the East of Germany where they had been living forcenturies.Hugenberg, then, went into cattle-farming for his ownaccount. As he had the secret of making others work forhim he was extremely successful and he had no doubt thatthe stars had prescribed for him a road to fame.The cattle were passive and obeyed his orders withoutopposition. This was no life for a fighting man, so back tothe bureaucracy Hugenberg went, ready to capitalize hisfarm experience. He was now a Consulting Councillor inthe Prussian Finance Ministry, where he aroused his colleagues‟admiration with the broad sweep of his mind insolving paltry problems. His spectacular rise, however, beganwhen after leaving the Ministry he was elected tothe board of directors of a large bank in Frankfurt amMain.Two years after his appointment Hugenberg was generalmanager of the Krupp Works in Essen, Germany‟s greatmunition factory. In the careers of most other men this