Arthur Kayser

Arthur Kayser (born May 19, 1871 in Witzenhausen ; died October 1, 1938 at Piz Cengalo ) was a German entrepreneur.

Life

Arthur Kayser established the technical expertise for his later career while working for the Kassel company Gottschalk & Co. As an expert in canvas weaving with profound entrepreneurial knowledge, he moved to Val. Mehler in Fulda in 1903 . When Kayser joined the company, production was reoriented, and Mehler increasingly specialized in waterproof fabrics for tent sheets, tarpaulin and horse blankets. After the company was converted into a stock corporation in 1915, Kayser became chairman of the board and the main shareholder of Val. Mehler Segeltuchweberei AG . His special importance for the local business location is expressed not least by the appointment as vice-president of the Fulda office of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

With the Nazi takeover of power in 1933, the living situation of the entrepreneur with a Jewish denomination suddenly deteriorated. The previously highly esteemed general manager of a large employer in the region found himself increasingly exposed to state-organized persecution. In the course of the so-called Aryanization of Jewish property, Arthur Kayser had to sell his Mehler shares in April 1938. These were acquired by Willy Kaus , his successor in management at Mehler. Arthur Kayser left Germany on September 30, 1938 under the impression that his own security and that of his family were being increasingly threatened. On the flight from Frankfurt / Main to Milan, his plane, the Junkers Ju-52 "D-AVFB", crashed on October 1, 1938 on the northern flank of Piz Cengalo in the canton of Graubünden. All 13 people on board, including Arthur Kayser and his son Ernst, were killed in the accident.

The shares in the Mehler company were returned to Arthur Kayser's heirs in 1952 after a successful legal dispute with Willy Kaus. He had previously tried to keep his majority share in Mehler by paying compensation to the Kayser family.

literature

Kayser, Arthur. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 896.
Michael Mott : Mehler saved his know-how: General director Arthur Kayser was killed in the forced emigration in 1938. In: Fuldaer Zeitung of October 22, 2008, p. 10.

Individual evidence

↑ Michael Mott: Fulda then and now: when houses, squares and streets tell stories, Volume 2. Fulda 2001, p. 143.
↑ mvs.de , accessed on September 14, 2015.
↑ Erich Achterberg: 1908-1958. Another fifty years at the Frankfurt am Main Chamber of Commerce and Industry. IHK 1960, p. 199.
↑ Michael Mott: Fulda then and now: when houses, squares and streets tell stories, Volume 2. Fulda 2001, p. 143f. aviation-safety.net , accessed on September 14, 2015.
↑ "Are the shares void?" in Der Spiegel (No. 11/1957) of March 13, 1957.

personal data
SURNAME	Kayser, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneur and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 19, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Witzenhausen
DATE OF DEATH	October 1, 1938
Place of death	Piz Cengalo

[1] Michael Mott: Fulda then and now: when houses, squares and streets tell stories, Volume 2. Fulda 2001, p. 143.

[2] vs.de , accessed on September 14, 2015.

[3] Erich Achterberg: 1908-1958. Another fifty years at the Frankfurt am Main Chamber of Commerce and Industry. IHK 1960, p. 199.

[4] Michael Mott: Fulda then and now: when houses, squares and streets tell stories, Volume 2. Fulda 2001, p. 143f. aviation-safety.net , accessed on September 14, 2015.

[5] "Are the shares void?" in Der Spiegel (No. 11/1957) of March 13, 1957.