Benno Arnold (industrialist)

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Benno Arnold (born November 21, 1876 in Augsburg ; † March 3, 1944 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ) was a German entrepreneur in the textile industry in Augsburg who was a victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Benno Arnold was the son of the upper-class Augsburg textile entrepreneur, Kommerzienrat Albert Arnold (1844–1913), who came from Jebenhausen , and his wife Hermine Arnold nee. Vogel (1853–1919), bearer of the King Ludwig Cross . Arnold became a member of the German Democratic Party in the Weimar Republic and was a member of the Augsburg City Council for them from 1920 . He became a co-owner of his father's cotton spinning and weaving mill, Spinnerei und Weberei am Sparrenlech Kahn & Arnold , which had 940 employees in 1933 despite the global economic crisis . From the founders Albert Arnold (1844-1913) and Aaron Kahn (1841-1926) the factory was transferred to Benno and Arthur Arnold (1880-1941) and Alfred Kahn (1876-1956) and Berthold Kahn (* 1879), who owned them at the time of the transfer of power to the National Socialists in the Reich. The company was Aryanized in 1938 . In 1940 the transfer to the New Augsburger Kattunfabrik (NAK) took place. The Kahn and Arnold families received nothing for the factory. Questionable compensation came about after the end of World War II .

The Kahn brothers, who were related to him by marriage, were able to emigrate to London and Bombay with their family . Benno Arnold was deputy head of the Israelite religious community and chairman of the Jewish retirement home. In 1941 he had to take over the board of directors of the Augsburg Jewish community and help organize the evictions and the deportations . The brother Arthur Arnold was deported to the Dachau concentration camp on September 25, 1941 , where he was murdered on November 23, 1941. The sister Luise Ellinger was deported to Theresienstadt on August 12, 1942. Finally he was born on August 30, 1942 with his wife Anna. Kahn (1882–1942) deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where Anna died in September 1942 after just a few weeks. Benno Arnold died there in March 1944.

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Commemoration

In the State Textile and Industry Museum in Augsburg deportation Arnold is mentioned.

literature

  • 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 .
  • Gernot Römer (ed.): "To my community in the dispersion". The circular letters of the Augsburg rabbi Ernst Jacob (1941–1949). Augsburg 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tanja Selder: A car tells history. August 7, 2018, accessed April 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Restitution of a Swiss account to Arthur Arnold's grandchildren: Claims Resolution Tribunal In re Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation File number: CV96-4849 on June 7, 2006 (pdf; 80 kB)
  3. ^ Karl Borromäus Murr in: Augsburger Allgemeine February 7, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Benno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textile entrepreneur in Augsburg
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1944
Place of death Theresienstadt ghetto