Dutch Schultz

Dutch Schultz

Dutch Schultz , actually: Arthur Simon Flegenheimer (born August 6, 1901 in the Bronx , New York City , † October 24, 1935 in Newark , New Jersey ), was an American mobster and gang leader of an alcohol smuggling ring during the prohibition period . It is included in the so-called Kosher Nostra .

biography

Childhood and youth

Arthur Flegenheimer was the son of Emma and Herman Flegenheimer, Jews who had emigrated to New York from Germany. In his youth he met Meyer Lansky , Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano . He was sentenced to 15 months in prison for the first time when he was 17 years old .

Criminal career

After his release, he was named "Dutch Schultz", modeled on a gangster from days gone by, and gathered a gang around him that initially concentrated its activities on the gaming machine business . He quickly realized that during the alcohol prohibition with the contraband was earning a lot of money. Schultz and his partner Joey Noe mainly smuggled beer . This happened with such great success that he was also called the " Beer Baron of the Bronx ". Its revenues were at two million US dollars on a yearly basis.

His partner in neighboring Manhattan was Owney Madden , who led the West Side Irish mob and in particular had the Irish district of Hell's Kitchen under his control.

After the end of Prohibition, he dominated the street lottery introduced by Italian immigrants, the “Number Game” or “Policy Game”, which was classified by law enforcement as a “Number Racket” or “Policy Racket”. Schultz acquired the monopoly by ousting Casper Holstein and Stephanie St. Clair from these activities.

Murder of Jules Martin

In 1938, three years after Dutch Schultz's death, his former attorney Richard "Dixie" Davis revealed that he had witnessed Schultz shooting his business partner Jules "Martin" Modgilewsky in a hotel in front of his eyes in 1935.

“Dutch Schultz was lousy. He had been drinking and suddenly drew his gun. Schultz carried his pistol under his vest and had it tucked into his pants, right on his stomach. One grip in his vest and he had it in his hand. In a single swift movement he pulled it out, put it in Jules Martin's mouth, and pulled the trigger. It was that simple and undramatic. Just a quick movement of the hand. Dutch Schultz committed this murder with indifference, as if he were brushing his teeth. "

- Dixie Davis - Five Families Book

Schultz then apologized to his lawyer for witnessing a murder. Later, when Davis read a newspaper article about finding the murdered Martin, he was shocked to learn that his body was found on a pile of snow, covered with innumerable knife wounds. When Davis asked Schultz what this was all about, Schultz replied:

“I cut out his heart. Fuck him. "

The end

In 1933, Fiorello LaGuardia was elected Mayor of New York. After one of his predecessors ( Jimmy Walker ) resigned for accepting bribes , charged and fled to Europe, he appointed Thomas E. Dewey as special prosecutor. With this, the new mayor tried to break the power of Tammany Hall , because Dewey turned against organized gambling, which had already been the business basis of classic gangs like the Eastman Gang or the Five Points Gang and is now organized in particular by Dutch Schultz and his thugs has been. Dewey asked for information from the population by radio and received over 3,000 tips. After Schultz was initially charged with tax evasion in 1933 , Dewey took action against Lucky Luciano for prostitution and trafficking in girls .

During his detention, Bo Weinberg acted as Schultz's deputy. When Schultz was released, he had the impression that Weinberg was no longer loyal and was in secret contact with Lucky Luciano and Louis Buchalter in order to finally relieve him. The background to this was that Luciano and other high-ranking members of organized crime had spoken out against a planned assassination attempt on Dewey by Dutch Schultz, as they believed that such an act would weaken the position of their organizations and draw increased attention from the investigative authorities . The murder intention had been betrayed to Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky by Albert Anastasia , whom Schultz wanted to win for the project. Before his verdict was announced, Luciano tried to prevent Dutch Schultz from murdering Dewey. The "Commission" of the National Crime Syndicate decided his death after his refusal in order to avert danger to the entire organization that the murder of the public prosecutor would inevitably have entailed.

On September 9, 1935, Bo Weinberg disappeared after visiting a nightclub in Midtown Manhattan and was never seen again. Rumors have it that Schultz cemented Weinberg's feet in place and then dumped him in the East River. The murder order of the "Commission" was not reversed; possibly it was only triggered by the murder of Bo Weinberg: on October 23, 1935, Dutch Schultz was shot by Charles Workman in the men's room of the "Palace Chop House" in Newark. He died at 8:35 p.m. the next day at Newark Hospital . Along with him, his accountant Otto Berman , his bodyguard Lulu Rosenkrantz and his main henchman Abe Landau were shot in the attack by Charles Workman and his accomplice Emanuel Weiss . They all died a little later from their gunshot wounds.

consequences

Many of the main followers had been eliminated along with Schultz; the lottery was taken over by other Kosher Nostras. Lucky Luciano was sentenced to between 25 and 50 years. Ironically, Luciano was released in 1946 by his original prosecutor, Thomas E. Dewey , who had since become governor of New York; in the discharge, it is said to have played an indirect role that Luciano wanted to prevent the murder of Dewey by Dutch Schultz. The remaining members of the Dutch mob must have come under the command of Louis Buchalter .

Adaptations

Fiction

In the novel Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow , the fictional youthful hero Billy Bathgate first becomes an errand boy, then a mascot and finally a confidante of Dutch Schulz.

Movies and movie quotes

Schultz has been portrayed , portrayed or quoted at least 24 times in various crime films since 1936 (including by Rutger Hauer , Dustin Hoffman and Vic Morrow ):

• 1959: The Lawless Years
• 1959: The Untouchables ( The Untouchables ), TV mini-series
• 1961: “The dead can no longer sing” (OT: Portrait of a Mobster ); This film is still considered the best known biographical film in which Vic Morrow embodies Schultz.
• 1961: Mad Dog Coll
• 1973: The highlight
• 1975: The New York gang boss ( Lepke )
• 1978: Fantasy Island
• 1981: The Gangster Chronicles
• 1981: Until the Last Shot ( Gangsters Wars )
• 1984: The Cotton Club ; James Remar
• 1984: The Natural
• 1987: Unsolved Mysteries : American documentary series; Episode: Dutch Schultz's Treasure
• 1989: The Revenge of Al Capone ; Television production
• 1991: Billy Bathgate ; Dustin Hoffman
• 1992: Hit the Dutchman
• 1993: The Outfit
• 1994: Trust in Me
• 1997: The Simpsons : In season 8, episode 18: The mysterious beer baron (OT: Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment - 4F15 ) Dutch Schultz and alcohol prohibition are satirized .
• 1997: Harlem, NYC - The Price of Power (OT: Hoodlum ): Tim Roth
• 2001: The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
• 2001: Digging for Dutch: The Search for the Lost Treasure of Dutch Schultz ; American documentary
• 2003: History's Mysteries: Infamous Murders ; Documentary series; Episode: New York Mafia Murders
• 2005: Empire of Crime: A Century of the New York Mob ; TV documentary
• 2015: In The Making of the Mob: New York , an eight-part miniseries about numerous New York mobsters of the La Cosa Nostra and Kosher Nostra, Dutch Schultz is a recurring supporting character.

music

Dutch Schultz is the name of a rock band from Northern Ireland. Dutch Schultz is also mentioned in some rap and hip-hop songs, including:

• 1998: JFK 2 LAX by the former hip-hop duo Gang Starr with the words "I'm like the black Dutch Schultz when you get me upset"
• 2005: Dear Summer by US rapper Memphis Bleek with the words "Try and play like he Suge, then I gotta play like Dutch Schultz"
• 2008: Harlem Renaissance of the Peruvian-US rapper Immortal Technique with the words "The Dutch Schultz and John Gotti's Banksters, modern day gangsters"
• 2014: Let the monkeys out of the rapper's zoo. Arrest warrant with the words "I'll do it ruthlessly like Dutch Schultz and arrive with the Tommy Gun"
• 2018: 100 terror bars of the rapper Fard with the words "I want to be like Dutch Schultz, but never like you"

literature

• William S. Burroughs : The Last Words from Dutch Schultz. Ullstein, Frankfurt a. M. 1975, ISBN 3-548-03116-1 , OT: The Last Words of Dutch Schultz. Viking Press 1969, ISBN 978-1-55970-211-9 .
• Paul Sann: Kill the Dutchman! The Story of Dutch Schultz. Arlington House, 1971.
• Gerald Tomlinson: Murdered in Jersey. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey 1994, ISBN 0-8135-2078-9 .

Web links

• Dutch Schultz in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Dutch Schultz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Schultz: Beer Baron of the Bronx on www.trutv.com (English)
• The end of Schultz and Berman on www.njhm.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nate Hendley: Dutch Schultz. The Brazen Beer Baron of New York Five Rivers Chapmanry, 2011, ISBN 978-0-9865427-4-9 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Dieter Sinn: The great criminal lexicon . Licensed edition 1984. Manfred Pawlak Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-88199-146-8 , pp. 188 ff.
3. ^ Davis Bares Murder by Schultz Of Jules Martin, Gangster's Aide; Policy Racketeer Shot Victim in Mouth in Cohoes Hotel as Ex-Lawyer Looked On, Hines Witness Told Up-State Prosecutor Davis Tells How Schultz Slew Jules Martin, One of His Aides in Up-State Hotel in 1935 New York Times , September 1, 1938 (English)
4. ↑ Selwyn Raab: The Five Families . The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires. MacMillan, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4299-0798-9 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
5. ↑ Mafia, US Secret Services and Politics . Part 1 (1865 to 1938). us-politik.ch
6. ↑ EL Doctorow : Billy Bathgate. ISBN 3-462-03660-2 . German translation Angela Praesent. Goldmann Verlag under license from Kiepenheuer & Witsch Verlag, Cologne 1997. ISBN 3-442-72176-8
7. ↑ Northern Irish trio delivers a seriously good second album. BBC, 2012, accessed December 6, 2019 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Casper Holstein and Stephanie St. Clair	Boss of the " Number Game " -Roads lottery in New York City 1932 - 1935	Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola