Albert Bendix

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Stumbling block for Albert Bendix, relocated on September 26, 2019 (Hältzstraße 24)

Albert Bendix (born August 12, 1879 in Dülmen ; died May 15, 1940 in Zandvoort , Netherlands ) was a German banker and a victim of National Socialism .

biography

Albert Bendix was born in 1879 as one of eight sons into a respected Jewish family in Dülmen that had lived there since the beginning of the 19th century; his parents were Friederike (nee Koppel, 1847-1894) and the merchant Pins Bendix (1835-1915). Albert Bendix learned the profession of banker. From 1914 at the latest he was director and head of the Cologne branch of the Barmer Bankverein , and from 1920 he was also a personally liable partner of the bank. Until the merger of the Barmer Bankverein Hinsberger, Fischer & Comp. with Commerz- und Privat-Bank in 1932 he remained a partner and branch manager in Cologne until 1937. Bendix was the Lithuanian consul for Westphalia, the Rhine Province and the Oldenburg region of Birkenfeld . He was also a member of the supervisory board of several industrial companies, such as L. Minlos & Co. AG for the production of soaps and detergents in Cologne-Ehrenfeld . Together with Robert Pferdmenges , he sat on the board of the Association of Banks and Bankers in Rhineland and Westphalia .

From the winter semester of 1925/26 onwards, Albert Bendix held a teaching position for banking studies at the University of Cologne . From 1933 to 1939 he was chairman of the Cologne synagogue community .

In 1939 Bendix fled to the Netherlands together with his wife Bertha (née Löwenberg), his son Hans-Joseph and his sister-in-law Henriette Löwenberg , where they were waiting for visas for the USA . On May 15, 1940, one day after the Netherlands was occupied by the German Wehrmacht , all four of them killed themselves with gas in Zandvoort . The family was buried a year later in Haarlem in the Jewish cemetery there.

A stumbling block was laid for Albert Bendix, his wife, his son and his sister-in-law on September 26, 2019 in front of his last place of residence in Cologne-Braunsfeld , Hältzstraße 24 .

family

The eldest brother of Albert Bendix, Joseph Bendix (born 1874), was a government architect and engineer for the Otavi Mining and Railway Company in German South West Africa worked and joined during the so-called " Herero uprising " as a lieutenant of the reserve of the Imperial Colonial Army to . On March 13, 1904, he was killed in the battle of Owikokorero . Brother Max died in 1920 at the age of 39, leaving behind a family. The brother Leopold (born 1895) emigrated to the USA , where he died on an unknown date. Julius Max (born 1883) and his wife Rosalie were murdered in Auschwitz in 1943 ; A stumbling block was laid for him in front of Klettenberggürtel 11. Three other brothers - Isaac, Levi and Otto - died at a young age in the 19th century, two of them in the year of their birth, Levi at the age of 18.

A second cousin of Albert Bendix was the textile entrepreneur Paul Bendix .

Fonts

  • From the prehistory of the construction of the Glockengasse synagogue . In: Memorial sheet on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Glockengasse synagogue . Supplement to the community bulletin for the [ie] Jewish communities in Rhineland and Westphalia, No. 37, September 11, 1936, oP

literature

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b Coesfeld local family register: Pins BENDIX * 1835 +1915. In: online-ofb.de. June 14, 1915. Retrieved July 23, 2017 .
  2. ↑ bundesarchiv.de: Biographical entry for Albert Bendix
  3. ↑ Julius Springer: The chemical industry . tape 44 , 1921, pp. 416 .
  4. ^ Report on the extended committee meeting [...] on June 27, 1931 , ed. v. Central Association of the German Banking and Banking Industry, Berlin. 1931.
  5. ↑ 100 years of bank operations teacher ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 23, 2017 (PDF file) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.econbiz.de
  6. ^ Oldenbourg Verlag: German Reich 1933–1937. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-70871-4 , p. 729 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  7. ↑ Lucas Lchtenberg: Mij ​​krijgen ze niet levend. Uitgeverij Balans, 2017, ISBN 978-94-6003-955-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  8. ^ About Albert Bendix. In: joodsmonument.nl. February 28, 2006, accessed July 23, 2017 .
  9. ↑ The Bendix / Stern suicides 1940. In: joodsmonument.nl. February 28, 2006, accessed July 23, 2017 .
  10. ↑ NS-Dok (Ed.): Resident information about the laying of the Stolperstein on September 26, 2019 at Hältzstraße 24 . Cologne September 2019, p. 1 .
  11. ↑ Hartmut Bartmuss: Joseph Bendix. Government architect, engineer and officer in German South West Africa (=  Jewish miniatures . Volume 168 ). Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2015.
  12. ↑ Max Bendix's widow was Regina Bendix. The couple had three children, Friederike, Bernhard and Walter. After 1933 the sons managed to emigrate to South Africa , mother and daughter fled to the Netherlands, from where they were deported to an extermination camp in 1943 and murdered. Stolpersteine ​​were laid in Dülmen for the four members of the family . See: Stations in detail -. In: blog.hls.duelmen.org. November 9, 1938. Retrieved July 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bendix, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and director of the Jewish community in Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Dülmen
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1940
Place of death Zandvoort