Alois Miedl
Alois Miedl (born March 3, 1903 in Munich ; † January 4, 1990 ) was a German art dealer.
Miedl was born in 1903 as the son of the dairy farmer Alois Miedl and his wife Maria Streicher. From 1920 to 1924 Miedl worked at the Heinrich and Hugo Marx bank in Munich, then at the Münchner Bank Witzig & Co. until 1929. In 1930 he became director of the Schantung-Handelaktiengeselschaft and in 1932 moved to the Netherlands as head of Veland. There he bought Jacques Goudstikker's famous art shop in July 1940 and mainly sold art looted by the Nazis .
Alois Miedl was married to the Jew Theodore "Dorie" Fleischer, with whom he had two children, Ruth Marie (* 1925) and Hanns Alois (* 1933). Miedl had good contacts with Nazi giants like Göring and Ferdinand from Fünten , the head of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam. Miedl was several times a guest with Hitler at the Berghof in Berchtesgaden . In July 1944 Miedl fled with his wife via Switzerland to Spain, where he lived until his death.
literature
- Nils Fiebig: Alois Miedl. The banker and looted art. Business in the shadow of power . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-8260-6991-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alois Miedl. Biografieën van Nederlandse ondernemers, International Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, accessed on June 9, 2020.
- ↑ Between legal entitlement and generosity. In: Der Tagesspiegel. April 19, 2007.
- ^ Michael Anton: Illegal cultural goods traffic. 2010. ( limited preview )
- ^ Günther Haase: Art theft and art protection, Volume I: A documentation . 2008, pp. 153, 260f, 339. ( limited preview )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miedl, Alois |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art dealer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th January 1990 |