Bernhard Salomon

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Bernhard Salomon (* 6. May 1855 in Aachen ; † 26. July 1942 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German electrical engineer and business manager , from 1900 to 1933 he served as Director General , the electricity AG formerly W. Lahmeyer & Co. ( EAG) in Frankfurt am Main.

Life

Bernhard Salomon studied electrical engineering at the Aachen Polytechnic ; In 1875 he became a member of the Corps Marko-Guestphalia . He then worked as a lecturer in mechanical engineering at the TH Aachen, where he received the title of professor in 1889.

In 1891 he accepted a job at W. Lahmeyer AG in Frankfurt am Main, which on July 9, 1892 was renamed to Elektrizitäts-AG, formerly W. Lahmeyer & Co. (EAG). From 1900 to 1933 he was General Director of the EAG. The later parent company of EAG was Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerke AG ( RWE ) , which EAG was involved in establishing in 1898.

During his career, Salomon significantly shaped the landscape of electricity-generating companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr.-Ing. E. h.).

Salomon was also Vice President of the Frankfurt-Hanau Chamber of Commerce and Industry, member of the Board of Directors of the Deutsche Reichspost and various other associations and committees.

Salomon was of Jewish origin and from 1933 on, despite his old age and his merits , he felt the social exclusion and the anti-Semitic ideology of National Socialism . In 1935 he gave his corps band back so as not to get his fraternity in trouble through his membership. In 1941 he was described in a letter from the arbitration board at the Reich Administrative Court as "one of the most outstanding personalities in German business life".

The married couple Bernhard and Meta Fanny (née Eichengrün) lived until they had to leave them in 1940 in a service villa at Westendstrasse 25 in Frankfurt. On June 8, 1942, Meta Salomon was summoned to the Secret State Police because they had the - discriminatory - yellow star had not worn, and then deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp , where she died of apoplexy on September 17, 1942. Shortly before his deportation to the Theresienstadt concentration camp , a month after his wife was abducted, he died on July 26, 1942 at the age of 87.

literature

  • Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , Sp. 1904.
  • Bernhard Salomon at the age of 80. In: Frankfurter Zeitung of May 5, 1935, p. 5.
  • Martin Münzel: The Jewish members of Frankfurt's economic elite after 1933. Aspects of elimination from the economic bourgeoisie of the Nazi state. In: Jörg Osterloh, Harald Wixforth (ed.): Entrepreneurs and Nazi crimes. Business elites in the “Third Reich” and in the Federal Republic of Germany. Frankfurt am Main 2014, p. 42. (with note 17) ( online preview at Google Books )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salomon, Meta Luise from the website of the city of Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved October 20, 2015.
  2. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung No. 37, May 11, 1889, p. 220.
  3. ↑ Münzel, The Jewish Members of Frankfurt's Economic Elite After 1933, pp. 42–43.
  4. ↑ Archive for Frankfurt's History and Art 65 (1999), pp. 245–246.
personal data
SURNAME Salomon, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and business manager
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1942
Place of death Frankfurt am Main