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the Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. A member of a wealthy Hamburg family active in trade with Central America, Dieseldorff worked for three years in his uncle's export firm in London before going to Guatemala in 1888 to search for investment opportunities. On the advice of relatives who had preceded him, he engaged in the production and export of coffee. He acquired properties from the Polochic River to the Petén and became the largest private landowner in Guatemala. His coffee business was vertically integrated with plantations that served different complementary functions. Dieseldorff had a lifelong interest in and wrote extensively about the Maya and the medicinal plants of the Alta Verapaz." - https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/dieseldorff-erwin-paul-1868-1940, 03.01.2020 Ein Nachlassverzeichnis der Korrespondenz und Schriften Paul Erwin Dieseldorffs: https://lal.tulane.edu/sites/default/files/lal/docs/Collection%20212%20Guide.pdf (besucht 03.01.2020)