Anton Bamberger

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Anton Bamberger, around 1910

Anton Bamberger (born April 4, 1886 in Mitwitz , Upper Franconia ; † December 28, 1950 in New York City ) was a German-American entrepreneur , a company founder and a pioneer of US plastic recycling .

family

Anton Bamberger's parents: Sarah “Serry” Bamberger (1862–1925), née Ullmann, and her husband Philipp Bamberger (1858–1919), around 1916
Else, Gerhard and Anton Bamberger, 1923

He was the second son of the businessman and entrepreneur Philipp Bamberger (1858-1919) and the last citizen of Jewish descent to be born in Mitwitz, as was his older brother in house number 23. His older brother was the businessman and businessman Otto Bamberger (1885-1933), his younger brothers of a PhD chemist and entrepreneur Hugo Bamberger (1887-1949) as well as the merchant and entrepreneur Ludwig Bamberger (1893-1964). Anton Bamberger grew up with his brothers in Lichtenfels near Bamberg in Upper Franconia , after his family had moved there shortly after his birth due to the relocation of their family business D. Bamberger , and also with his cousin Alfred (1890-1956), their son his uncle Fritz (1862–1942). His grandfather David Bamberger (1811–1890), the founder of this company, moved to Lichtenfels on July 1, 1887.

The family was not religious. Anton Bamberger married Else "Elsie" (born April 11, 1894 in Bocholt ; † August 24, 1986 in New York City), née Magnus, in Hanover on November 10, 1919 . She was a daughter of Ivan Magnus (1850-1916) and Ida Cohen (1866-1920). Anton Bamberger's marriage resulted in two children, Vera (* March 18, 1924, later married Hirtz) and Gerhard Franz Philipp (* September 20, 1925; † December 2, 2013 in Sarasota , Florida ), both born in Hanover.

Act

The brothers Ludwig (1893–1964), Otto (1885–1933), Hugo (1887–1949) and Anton Bamberger, around 1910

Anton Bamberger grew up in Lichtenfels near Bamberg in Upper Franconia and started his apprenticeship around 1905 at Meyer Cohen & Co. (named after Adolph Meyer and Alexander Abraham Cohen) in Hannover-Linden , a company that focused on rubber and chemical by-products. In 1911 he was appointed manager of its New York City branch. With the George Washington of the North German Lloyd he sailed from Bremerhaven on November 13, 1911 on the North Atlantic route to New York City, where he learned the English language.

As early as 1914, however, he returned to Germany because of the outbreak of World War I and served in the army of the German Empire as a non-commissioned officer in the artillery troops on the Eastern Front . In 1915 he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class.

After the end of the war, he returned to Hanover, married and, together with partners, acquired his former training company, which was renamed Jacobowitz & Co., GmbH . The company grew rapidly, possibly too quickly, because it ran into serious trouble during the hyperinflation of 1923 and went bankrupt in 1924. Immediately thereafter, Anton Bamberger and his partner Hermann Bolte founded a new company that operated under the name Bolte & Co., KG ( Bolco logo), which was on the market until the 1950s. This traded in chemical and chemical by-products and was located in Hanover city center, at Hinüberstrasse 18, near the main train station. Anton Bamberger specialized in waste products for which he was looking for customers around the world. He maintained intensive business contacts with the Continental Gummiwerke in Hanover's Vahrenwalder Strasse. He also had business connections with oil refineries and opened a free gas station near his own company building.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, his professional and private life became increasingly difficult. He had to stop his hobby, hunting, from a hunting lodge with other Jewish business people in the nearby area. Jews were no longer allowed to own hunting weapons, nor were they given any hunting dogs or premises. In 1936 Anton Bamberger was driven out of the company by the " Aryanization " without compensation, but was initially able to continue to use his numerous good business connections and continued to work with a secretary from his living room at home. On 15 January 1938 he and his wife Else traveled on the SS Manhattan of the United States Lines in the US to his uncle Gustav "Gus" Bamberger (1864-1943) to Cleveland to emigrate his family prepare for, and received from this one Affidavit , which he used for his family on June 4, 1938, to emigrate to New York City via the Dutch city of Rotterdam with the TSS Veendam of the Holland America Line .

The A. Bamberger Corporation in Brooklyn , New York, 1943

Anton Bamberger initially traded chemical by-products there before founding the A. Bamberger Corporation , one of the first plastic recycling companies in the USA, a pioneer in the processing and recycling of recyclable plastic materials. His son Gerald Francis (Gerhard Franz Philipp) Bamberger (1920–2013) worked from day one. He was inspired by Herbert Hoffman, a former student of the Technical University in Hanover, whom Anton Bamberger and his wife had met in Hanover in the 1920s, for this newly emerging market segment . He was now running a company in Brooklyn . As a result of the Second World War , the need to recycle and process these raw materials increased immensely. When Hoffman died a short time later, Anton Bamberger took over the company in the early 1940s and traded it as American Molding Powder & Chemical Corporation with the brand name Ampacet . At the end of the 1940s, Anton Bamberger was appointed to the Plastics Pioneers Association . Anton Bamberger's brand name Ampacet is still used today by a successor company of this name that is active around the world.

On January 1, 1943, Anton Bamberger took his nephew Claude P. (Klaus Philipp) Bamberger (1920–2008), who had been released from the US Army in September 1942 for health reasons, into his business. After his son Gerald returned from the war in Europe, he worked again in the company and after the death of his father in 1950 took over the management of the company until he founded it in 1955 in 1929 and based in Staten Island in the US state of New York based Ansbacher Siegle Corporation , which was taken over by Sun Chemical in 1957 .

Anton Bamberger died at the age of 64, his wife Else at the age of 92. Both were buried in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale , Westchester County , New York.

literature

  • Herbert Loebl : The Holocaust - 1800 Years in the Making. Exemplified since approx. 1030 by the Experience of the Jewish Community of Bamberg in Franconia. A course of 9 lectures . Department of Religious Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Winter Term 1989. Self-published, Newcastle upon Tyne 1989. OCLC 630421121 Does not include: Chapter IV The Bamberg Families of Burgkunstadt and Mitwitz , unfinished, unpublished, 80 pages incl. Title page.
  • Claude P. Bamberger : History of a Family - The Bambergers of Mitwitz and Lichtenfels 1770-1992 . Self-published, Tenafly, New Jersey, USA, 1993. OCLC 174282770
  • Claude P. Bamberger: Breaking the Mold - A Memoir . C. Bamberger Molding Compounds Corp., Carlstadt, New Jersey, USA, 1996, ISBN 0-9653827-0-2 .
  • Klaus Bamberger: From the history of the Bamberger family. Childhood memories of Lichtenfels (= Kleine CHW-Schriften, Colloquium Historicum Wirsbergense, Issue 2; Lichtenfelser Hefte zur Heimatgeschichte, special issue 3), ed. v. City archive Lichtenfels, Verlag HO Schulze, Lichtenfels 2005, ISBN 3-87735-177-8 .
  • Gerald F. Bamberger: The Story of My Life - A Memoir . July 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handwritten protocol, signed by David Bamberger, dated September 1, 1881. Quote: “The Jewish community of Mitwitz has disbanded after almost everyone moved away about six years ago. In the last three years I have remained as the only member of the former community. ”In: Castle and Family Archives of the Barons of Würtzburg zu Mitwitz, Bamberg State Archives. Quoted from: Klaus Bamberger: From the history of the Bamberger family. Childhood memories of Lichtenfels (= Kleine CHW-Schriften, Colloquium Historicum Wirsbergense, Issue 2; Lichtenfelser Hefte zur Heimatgeschichte, special issue 3), ed. v. Lichtenfels City Archives, HO Schulze, Lichtenfels 2005, ISBN 3-87735-177-8 , p. 12.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Dr. Herbert Loebl OBE: The Holocaust - 1800 Years in the Making. Exemplified since approx. 1030 by the Experience of the Jewish Community of Bamberg in Franconia. A course of 9 lectures . Department of Religious Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Winter Term 1989. Self-published, Newcastle upon Tyne 1989. OCLC 630421121 Does not include: Chapter IV The Bamberger Families of Burgkunstadt and Mitwitz , unfinished, unpublished, p. 58.
  3. ^ Claude P. Bamberger: History of a Family - The Bambergers of Mitwitz and Lichtenfels 1770-1992 . Self-published, Tenafly, New Jersey, USA, 1993, p. 14.
  4. ↑ Dr. Siegfried Rudolph: A Mitwitzer art collector . In: Mitteilungsblatt - Official Journal for the Administrative Community Mitwitz , No. 25 (1992), June 19, 1992.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Gerald F. Bamberger: The Story of My Life - A Memoir . July 2010, pp. 9-20.
  6. ^ Fritz Bamberger . In: Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, on: yadvashem.org
  7. ^ Bamberger, Fritz . In: Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 , on: bundesarchiv.de
  8. ^ Fritz Bamberger . In: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum , at: ushmm.org
  9. ↑ Dr. Herbert Loebl OBE: The Holocaust - 1800 Years in the Making. Exemplified since approx. 1030 by the Experience of the Jewish Community of Bamberg in Franconia. A course of 9 lectures . Department of Religious Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Winter Term 1989. Self-published, Newcastle upon Tyne 1989. OCLC 630421121 Does not include: Chapter IV The Bamberger Families of Burgkunstadt and Mitwitz , unfinished, unpublished, p. 50.
  10. ↑ Else Bamberger . In: Social Security Death Index, at: newspaperarchive.com
  11. ^ Bamberger, Else, bur. 8/28/1986 , Location: Cemetery Grounds, PAUL, 141A, 1, on: interment.net
  12. ↑ USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimony of Vera Hirtz . In: United States Holocaust Memorial, at: ushmm.org
  13. ↑ Vera J. Bamberger married Walter E. Hirtz on December 30, 1946 in San Francisco (born October 26, 1908; † May 6, 1998). On September 7, 1955, he founded Walter E. Hirtz Plastics Materials, Inc. in Long Beach .
  14. ↑ a b c d e Claude P. Bamberger: Breaking the Mold - A Memoir . C. Bamberger Molding Compounds Corp., Carlstadt, New Jersey, USA, 1996, ISBN 0-9653827-0-2 , pp. 86-88.
  15. ↑ Register for the Industry and Trade Gazette (PDF file; 1.1 MB), Chapter Chemical Industry , p. 114, on: d-nb.info
  16. ↑ Ampacet Corporation , on company-histories.com
  17. ↑ Ampacet History , on: ampacet.com
  18. ^ Claude P. Bamberger: Breaking the Mold - A Memoir . C. Bamberger Molding Compounds Corp., Carlstadt, New Jersey, USA, 1996, ISBN 0-9653827-0-2 , p. 89.
  19. ↑ Alexander shapes Ampacet present . In: Plasticnews, July 15, 2002 at: plasticnews.com
  20. ↑ Performance Pigments division is formed , on: sunchemical.com
  21. ^ Bamberger, Anton , bur. 4/4/1951, Location: Cemetery Grounds, PAUL, 141A, 1, on: interment.net
  22. ^ Bamberger, Else , bur. 8/28/1986, Location: Cemetery Grounds, PAUL, 141A, 1, on: interment.net
personal data
SURNAME Bamberger, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Mitwitz , Upper Franconia
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1950
Place of death New York City