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16.08.1873 Bremen, 
14.06.1927 Germany?, [I7465], Partner and Director , N: A coffee importer/exporter in New York City, ev., A partner in the (Louis) Wessels and (Gustav B.) Kulenkampff Cy. of 82 Beaver Street and 130 Pearl Street, NYC., Gustav was also a director of the South Porto Rico Sugar Cy.Gustav was the man who brought Captain Karl Boy-Ed’s name into the proceedings. Gustav was a social friend of Dr. Karl Buenz and Captain Boy-Ed, Naval Attache of the German Embassy and in actuality a member of the German Secret Service agency. He resided at the German Club, 112 Central Park South, there.
Gustav reported that his firm, at the request of Hamburg-America Line, had cleared the cargoes of the colliers “Berwind� und the “Lorenz�, two of the ships mentioned in an indictment.
Gustav, the government maintained, was told that the German cruisers “Karlruhe� and the “Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse� were to sail to Buenos Aires although the real intent was to meet German sea raiders. He said that just after the outbreak of the war he had received large sums of money from Germany.
The “Berwind� had been sent to the South Atlantic where she encountered the Germa gunboat “Elba� and the cruiser “Cap Trafalgar� off Satna Lucia. After the latter vessel had complete taking off stores, she met up with a British cruiser which sank her.
The “Lorenzo� left port shortly after the “Berwind�. She was captured by a British or French cruiser and the Hamburg-America Line was forced to pay her bond of indemnity.
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A German subject, Gustav later revealed that Boy-Ed disposed of one allotment of $750,000 with a “dummy�. This was Gustav himself. Most of the money went to shipping companies which were supplying German warships.
Gustav, who figured in several German plots during WW I, escaped arrest until March of 1918 when he was put in NY City’s Tombs on suspicion of communicating with Germans carrying propaganda in South America. He was regarded as an “enemy alien�.
In 1917, the U.S. Department of Justice discovered $750,000 had been mysteriously placed to Gustav’s credit here and traced $350,000 of this amount to German plotters in South America. In April of 1918, he was expelled from the NY Athletic Club along with several others.