He starved himself in order to save money to speculate in shipping reinsurance.
"Swirling Waters"
Max Rittenberg
The Triple Alliance, with its excellent reinsurance Treaty, did not constitute a sufficiently powerful springboard from which to take our plunge into world-politics.
"My Three Years in America"
Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
The reinsurance contract could not be anything but a makeshift, which merely deferred the inevitable choice which had to be made between Russia and Austria-Hungary.
"My Three Years in America"
Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff