Arthur Kunstmann
Arthur Kunstmann (born December 29, 1871 in Swinoujscie ; † August 27, 1940 in London ) was a German shipowner .
Life
Arthur Kunstmann was the eldest son of the shipowner Wilhelm Kunstmann and his wife Lina, nee. Jacoby (1850-1930). His younger brothers were Julius (1877–1896) and Werner (1882–1962, living in Stockholm since the 1920s ) Kunstmann. He attended school in Anklam and received his education in Germany, Great Britain and France. In 1894 he joined his father's shipping company W. Kunstmann , which developed into the largest shipping company in Prussia . The company was founded by his father in Swinoujscie in 1870 , and the head office has been in Szczecin since 1899 . Arthur Kunstmann became managing director in 1895 and partner in 1900.
After the First World War , the company was initially hard hit by the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , as it had to surrender almost all ships. As compensation, two steamships were built in 1921 at the expense of the state, the Wilhelm Kunstmann and the Lina Kunstmann . In the 1920s, Kunstmann was a member of the German delegation to the League of Nations . In 1930 the shipping company had 50,000 tons of shipping space.
Kunstmann was honorary consul of Japan from 1921 (apparently until 1938) and even before that from Spain and Peru in Stettin.
In 1929, Kunstmann became president of the Association of German Shipowners
When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the family began to be marginalized because of their Jewish origin and denomination. After the death of his father on March 25, 1934 sole owner, Arthur Kunstmann had to transfer the shipping company to the Emden shipping company Johs in early 1936 . Fritzen & Sohn sell and emigrated to London with their wife and children . After the sale until 1938, the company was initially named Johs. Fritzen & Sohn, formerly managed by W. Kunstmann .
Arthur Kunstmann had supported the University of Greifswald , among other things in 1931 with a large seaworthy motorboat Clara Kunstmann for hydrographic investigations in the Greifswalder Bodden and as a board member of the Association of Friends and Sponsors of the University, was made an honorary senator by it and received an honorary doctorate in philosophy in 1933 Faculty. The revocation of these honors during the National Socialist era was reversed by the university on October 19, 2000.
He was married to Clara, b. Dealer (1897–1973). The couple had a daughter, Gerda (* 1901), who later lived in Melbourne, and a son, Werner (1902–1961).
literature
- Hans Jaeger: Kunstmann, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 302 f. ( Digitized version ). (Article on father)
- Kunstmann, Arthur. In: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life. Saur, Munich et al. 1980, ISBN 3-598-10087-6 , p. 404.
- Kunstmann, Arthur , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 209
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from the Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Emigration after 1933 (Lit.)
- ^ Tajima Nobuo: The Japanese Embassy in Berlin in the National Socialist Period: Personnel and Politics. In: Gerhard Krebs , Bernd Martin (ed.): Formation and fall of the Berlin-Tōkyō axis (= monographs from the German Institute for Japanese Studies of the Philipp-Franz-von-Siebold-Foundation. Vol. 8). Iudicium-Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-89129-488-3 , pp. 57-73, here p. 63.
- ^ Rehabilitated: University of Greifswald posthumously returns academic and honorary degrees revoked by the Nazi regime Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, January 26, 2001
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kunstmann, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German shipowner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Swinoujscie |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 1940 |
| Place of death | London |