Meyer Lansky (civil Maier Suchowljansky) (* 28 August 1902 (official date of birth, exact date of birth is unknown) in Grodno, Russia (today to white Russia), "† 15 January 1983 in Miami, Florida, the USA) was an American Mafioso from the surrounding field (today) of the so-called "Kosher Nostra".

Biografie

Meyer Lansky, son of a Jewish family, came 1911 with its nut/mother to America; more exactly said after Brownsville, a quarter of the district Brooklyn, New York. Its father originating from simple conditions traveled already some years before to America and worked in a Textilfabrik.Lansky made there already as a boy his money with illegal Craps plays on the roads of the Lower East Side in Manhattan, later also than burglars and racquets (to: "rack tar") for trade unions. He tried in addition unsuccessfully as and was active in the years of the Prohibition in the alcohol black market. Later it concentrated on gambling.

As a friend of Bugsy seal was Meyer Lansky with other gangsters financially with the building of the first hotel Casinos ("The flamingo hotel ") in read Vegas involved, which of seal was led. When the costs of the change versechsfachten themselves, the gangsters in a secret meeting in Havanna arranged, with which also Lansky was present, seal to murder. Gus Greenbaum and Moe Sedway became thereafter owners of the casino hotel.

Later Lansky was likewise involved in the lucrative gambling business in Cuba. It became active for the Cuban dictator at that time Fulgencio Batista as advisors.

Under the Ganstern is it the honour names "hone Meyer "to have had: "the honest Meyer ", because it always professes itself to all met arrangements has and none the Mafiosi ever over the ear gehauen to have is. In addition it is to have been a financial genius and have possessed an unusual memory.

It was called of the press gladly as "a banker organized crimes ", in addition, falsely "godfather of the godfathers ". Its premises were scanned repeated by FBI and other authorities, but never was material, which could have been used before court. Lansky had had apparently all important data concerning its Mafiabeteiligungen in the head.

He was chain smoker and probably died at a cardiac infarct in the Mount Sinai hospital in Miami, while he already suffered from heavy cancer of the lungs.

Allegedly it is to have possessed a fortune of over 400 million US Dollar; it was found never.

Film

• Filming of Meyer Lanskys life into American of Roulette of 1999 with Richard Dreyfuss, Illena Douglas, Eric Robert, Francis Guinan.
• In the film the godfather - part of 2 emerges Lansky as "Hyman Roth". The name Lanskys could not be used in the film for legal reasons, since Lansky still lived, when the film developed.
• In the film Bugsy, a biography over Bugsy seal, was embodied Lansky of Ben Kingsley.
• The film "the true Bosse" (original title: "Mobsters") treats the ascent of Charlie "Lucky" Luciano to the king of the New Yorker underworld. To its allied ones above all Meyer Lansky belonged.

Bars

In Germany and Austria there are several bars, which decorate themselves with Meyer Lanskys name, among other things in Dortmund, Hamburg and complaint ford.

Literature

• Robert A. Rockaway: Meyer Lansky, Bugsy seal & CO. Life stories of Jewish gangsters in the USA. Hamburg: Concrete literature Verl., around 1998. ISBN 3-89458-170-0
• Robert Lacey: Meyer Lansky. The gangster and its America. Bergisch Gladbach: 1992. ISBN 3-7857-0652-9
• Denis iron mountain; Uri Dan; Eli Landau: "The king of the mafia"; 1979; Title Orginalausgabe "Meyer Lansky - Mogul OF the mobilization" Playboy Enterprises; ISBN 3-8118-6611-7; Germany Moewig publishing house, Munich

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