Aron Hirsch

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Aron Hirsch (born February 6, 1858 in Halberstadt ; † February 22, 1942 in Wiesbaden ) was a German-Jewish non-ferrous metal and steel industry.

Life

In 1877 Hirsch joined the family business founded by grandfather Aron Hirsch (1783–1842), the metal trading company Aron Hirsch & Son in Halberstadt, of which he later became a partner. In 1898 he moved to Berlin to take over the management of the Eberswalder brass works after the death of his uncle Gustav Hirsch . In 1906 he joined the Society of Friends . In 1907 Aron Hirsch & Sohn spun off its industrial activities and brought them to the newly founded company Hirsch Kupfer- und Messingwerke AG (HKM), Berlin, which went public in 1909. As chairman of the board, Aron Hirsch determined the fate of HKM. He became a member of the board of the Berlin Stock Exchange and was a frequent member of the supervisory board , including at Deutsche Bank . During the First World War , the HKM group benefited from the armaments contracts, while the foreign raw material base was expropriated by the war opponents. Finally, in 1929, part of the shares went to the British Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) and the Hirsch trading company was merged with the H. Schoyer trading company .

Hirsch was a philanthropist and was involved in the Academy for the Science of Judaism and in the Berlin Jewish Community, of which he was a member of the assembly of representatives for several years. In 1922 he received an honorary doctorate from the TH Darmstadt .

Together with his wife Amalie, geb. Mainz (* 1865 in Frankfurt), called Mally, he had two children: Siegmund Hirsch (1885–1981) and Dora (Dodo), married. Schwartz (* 1893). Hirsch retired to Wiesbaden with his wife in 1932 and initially lived there in the Nassauer Hof, in keeping with their status . Due to the increasing persecution after the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, the couple had to move several times and most recently lived as a sublet. Aron Hirsch died on February 22, 1942 (presumably by suicide) in Wiesbaden; his wife Amalie committed suicide on August 27, 1942, shortly before her previously announced deportation to the Theresienstadt ghetto .

literature

  • Friedrich von Borries / Jens-Uwe Fischer: home container. German prefabricated houses in Israel. Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp, ​​2009.
  • Anett Krause, Cordula Reuß [Eds.]: Nazi looted property in the Leipzig University Library: [Catalog for the exhibition in the Bibliotheca Albertina, November 27, 2011 to March 18, 2012] . Leipzig University Library, writings from the Leipzig University Library; 25, 2011, p. 63ff
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
  • Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
  • Ernst G. Lowenthal: Jews in Preussen , Berlin: Reimer, 1982 ISBN 3-496-01012-6
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-01204-1 (reprint of the Czernowitz edition 1925).
  • Stefi Jersch-Wenzel :  Hirsch, Aron. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 211 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography on Aron Hirsch (the elder) with Ernst G. Lowenthal: Juden in Preussen , p. 92f
personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, Aron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1942
Place of death Wiesbaden