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[[File:Theodore Dietrich Garbade.jpg|thumb|Theodore Dietrich Garbade]]
'''Theodore Dietrich Garbade''' (September 12, 1873 – January 26, 1961) was a merchant and [[bank]]er, he was President of the Union of Manufacturers of Cigars of [[Cuba]].

As a young man he moved from the German Village of Cigarmakers “''Zigarrenmacherdorf'' “Hastedt,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.edition-temmen.de/blog/tag/hastedt/|title=Hastedt – DENN MAN TAU|website=www.edition-temmen.de|language=de-DE|access-date=2017-10-02}}</ref> [[Bremen]] to Cuba where he worked as a leaf buyer for [[Hermann Dietrich Upmann]]  and his [[Tobacco industry|Tobacco]] Company.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJRBAQAAMAAJ&q=Teodore+Garbade+Cigar|title=United States Tobacco Journal|date=1915|publisher=BMT Publications|language=en}}</ref> He was President of the Union of Manufacturers of Cigars of [[Cuba]], and joined [[H. Upmann|H.Upmann]] as an associate member and became their partner<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2MozAQAAMAAJ&q=Theodor+Garbade|title=The London Banks and Kindred Companies and Firms ...|last=(bart.)|first=Sir Thomas Skinner|date=1916|publisher=T. Skinner & Company|language=en}}</ref> at the Bank: [[H. Upmann & Co.]] till 1917 when he moved to [[New York City|New York]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G5JBAQAAMAAJ&q=teodoro+garbade|title=United States Tobacco Journal|date=1914|publisher=BMT Publications|language=en}}</ref> He was Head of the [[Chamber of commerce|Chamber of Commerce]] in Cuba in 1917.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JkAwAQAAMAAJ&q=teodoro+garbade|title=Memoria que la Junta Directiva presentara a la asamblea general ordinaria|last=Cuba|first=Cámara de Comercio, Industria y Navegación de la Isla de|date=1917|publisher=Cámara|language=es}}</ref>

Theodore Garbade played a significant role in the settlement between Cuba and the [[United States]] after, [[Woodrow Wilson|President Wilson]] succeeded 1913 in passing the [[Revenue Act of 1913|Revenue Act]], also known as the Tariff Act, or the Underwood Act. The Act established the lowest rates since the [[Walker Tariff]] of 1857. Most schedules were ''ad valorem'' basis, a percentage of the value of the item. This had a profound impact for the Cuban [[Tobacco industry|Tobacco Industry]] concerning their import to the States. As President of the Union of Manufacturers of Cigars of [[Cuba]] Garbade, aided by an appointed committee, laid this out to Cuban ´s President [[Mario García Menocal]] in January 1914, insisting upon an allowance of 50 per cent on their exports of cigars as an equivalent in Cuba’s next reciprocity treaty and urging a prompt solution of this matter so vital to the Cuban cigar industry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/readbook/TheCubaReview_10559666#106|title=The Cuba Review|website=www.forgottenbooks.com|language=en|access-date=2017-10-02}}</ref>

A German [[Citizenship|Citizen]] in the United States in 1916, he was considered [[prisoner of war]], and put under [[house arrest]] in his mansion in [[Mount Kisco, New York|Mount Kisko, New York]]. In 1919 he moved to [[San Sebastián]], [[Spain]] and in 1921 to [[Lucerne]], [[Switzerland]] where he applied for a Swiss passport. Owner of [[plantation]]s and other properties in Cuba, he lost a great part of his fortune by [[Confiscation]] in 1960 after the [[Cuban Revolution]]. He died only one year later. Garbade was married four times. Theodor jr, is son of his first spouse Graziella Aguirre del Monte who died in 1909. His second wife Aida Heydrich (1887 -1920),<ref>New York City Marriage licences, Index 1807-1995, Manhattan 2016</ref> daughter of [[Emilio Heydrich]], gave him two sons: [[Robert D. Garbade]] [[Filmmaking|(Filmmaker]] and first [[Camera operator|cameraman]] of the [[Schweizer Fernsehen|Swiss Television]]) and [[Bernhard Garbade|Bernhard R. Garbade]], father of swiss artist [[Daniel Garbade]], director of “[[Zurich Insurance Group|Zurich]]” Insurance Group, [[Philanthropy|Philanthropist]] and [[Sponsor (commercial)|sponsor]] of {{Interlanguage link|Max Maag|de|Max Maag|WD=}} Church Organs. Theodore Garbade is buried with his last wife Hildegard von Ohlen (1903 -1962)<ref>England & Wales Citvil registration marriage index, 1916-2005, page no 1511, von Ohlen, Garbade</ref> at the [[Flims|Flims Waldhaus]] cemetery, Switzerland.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bDcLAAAAYAAJ&q=teodoro+garbade|title=Historia de familias cubanas|last=Jaruco)|first=Francisco Xavier de Santa Cruz y Mallén (conde de San Juan de|date=1940|publisher=Editorial Hércules|isbn=9780897294089|language=es}}</ref>

== Literature ==
* Reginald Lloyd, Jose' Pla' Carceles: ''Twentieth Century Impressions of Cuba'', Editor: Lloyd's Greater Britain publishing Company, Limited, 1913
* ''The Cuba Review and Bulletin, Editor:Munson Steamship Line, 1913''
* ''United States Tobacco Journal'', vol. 83, BMT Publications, 1915
* Thomas Skinner: ''The London Banks and Kindred Companies and Firms'', Editor: T. Skinner & Company, 1916
* Martin Torodash: ''Woodrow Wilson and the Tarriff (sic) Question: The Importance of the Underwood Act in His Reform Program''.Editor: New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1966<ref>{{cite book|title=Woodrow Wilson and the Tarriff Question: The Importance of the Underwood Act in His Reform Program|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yO47ygAACAAJ&q=underwood+act|publisher=New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science|date=1966|accessdate=2017-10-22|language=en|first=Martin|last=Torodash}}</ref>
*  Alfredo Gómez Llorens: ''Instituciones y ciclo económico de la República de Cuba''. Palibrio, 2014
* Noel Maurer: ''The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American'', Editor: Princeton University Press, 2013, {{ISBN|978-0-691-15582-1}}

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