Sir Henry Edouard Strakosch (9 May 1871 – 30 October 1943) was an Austrian-born British banker and businessman.
He supplied Winston Churchill with figures on German arms expenditure during the latter's political campaign for rearmament.
[4] Files declassified in the 2000s showed that Strakosch provided large financial gifts to Churchill in 1938 and 1940,[5][6] which enabled Churchill to pay off his vast debts and to withdraw his Kent home Chartwell from sale at a time of severe financial pressures.
[4] Nazi propaganda exploits this to claim that Churchill was under the control of Jewish bankers, an anti-Semitic trope also repeated by Holocaust denialists such as David Irving.
[7] Strakosch was unmarried until 1941 when he married Mabel Elizabeth Vincent, widow of Joseph Temperley,[2] a shipowner.