Otto Kratz (1830–80)
German-born businessman in the United States. Superintendent of the Julius Robert Diffusion Process Company in New Orleans; the company was concerned with processing sugarcane. Took American citizenship, 1873. Was living in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, when he died in Halle.
Sources
Halle (Saale), Germany, deaths, 1874–1957 (Ancestry.com, accessed 11 June 2020)
letter from Otto Kratz, 12 July 1871
NUC
United States Federal Census 1870 (New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana 10/378A) (Ancestry.com, accessed 11 June 2020)
U.S. passport applications, 1795–1925 (Ancestry.com, accessed 11 June 2020)