Edgar Jaffé (14 May 1866 – 29 April 1921) was a German economist and politician . He was born in Hamburg to a Jewish family in Barcelona and Paris.
Later he went to Manchester and worked at a textile mill. He became rich from this and went to Heidelberg in 1900. He became a teacher there.
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