# Dutch Voight

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{{short description|German American mobster, gang leader}}
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|birth_name    = Oscar Ernest Voigt
|birth_date    = {{birth date|1888|11|18}}
|birth_place   = [Brenham, Texas](/source/Brenham%2C_Texas), U.S.
|death_date    = {{death date and age|1986|05|15|1888|11|18}}
|death_place   = Galveston, Texas, U.S.
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'''Oscar Ernest "Dutch" Voigt''' was an American [mob boss](/source/Crime_boss) in [Galveston, Texas](/source/Galveston%2C_Texas) in the [United States](/source/United_States), who was involved in bootlegging, illegal gambling, numbers racket, prostitution and other criminal activities during the early 1900s. Voight was called ''Dutch'' for ''Deutsch'' meaning ''German''. He, with [Ollie Quinn](/source/Ollie_Quinn), led the Beach Gang, one of the two criminal organisations which controlled most of the Galveston underworld until the mid-1920s. He was of German descent.

Voigt ushered in the modern era of gambling on the island by establishing organized poker games in 1910 and was known as Quinn's  top advisor in the criminal business.<ref>Nieman (2008), pg. 5.</ref> He and Quinn soon ran games all over the city.

==See also==
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*[Free State of Galveston](/source/Free_State_of_Galveston)
*[Johnny Jack Nounes](/source/Johnny_Jack_Nounes)
*[Ollie Quinn](/source/Ollie_Quinn)
*[Rosario Maceo](/source/Rosario_Maceo)
*[Sam Maceo](/source/Sam_Maceo)
*[George Musey](/source/George_Musey)

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite book | title=Galveston: a history of the island | author=Cartwright, Gary | year=1998 | publisher=Macmillan | location=New York | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RFRu8kYThEcC | isbn=0-87565-190-9}}
* {{cite journal | title=Galveston's Balinese Room | journal=Texas Ranger Dispatch | author=Nieman, Robert | publisher=Texas Ranger Association Foundation | date=Fall 2008 | issue=27 |  url=https://www.unlimitedfightnews.com/balinese_dispatch.pdf}}

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Category:People from Galveston, Texas
Category:American crime bosses
Category:American gangsters of German descent
Category:1888 births
Category:1986 deaths
Category:20th-century American people

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