Erich Gompertz

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Erich Gompertz (born September 22, 1877 in Hanover ; died September 11, 1970 there ) was a German button manufacturer and a free spirit .

Life

Inscription for Erich Gompertz on the listed family tomb at the Stöcken city cemetery

Erich Gompertz was born in Hanover in the early days of the German Empire as the son of the Jewish button manufacturer Leopold Gompertz . As a teenager he joined the company Hannoversche Knopffabrik Gompertz & Meinrath, which his father co-founded . A decade later, after the death of his father, he took over the management of the company in 1905.

In addition, Erich Gompertz was privately involved in the movement of free spirits, and in 1909 founded the Hanover local group of the German Monist Association .

In 1913 Erich Gompertz relocated the button factory from Eichstrasse to what was then Stader Landstrasse , today's Vahrenwalder Strasse . In the following years from 1914 to 1918 Gompertz took part in the First World War. Also in 1918 he became one of the co-founders of the People's League for Spiritual Freedom .

At the beginning of the Weimar Republic , Erich Gompertz married a second time in 1920. In 1932 he founded a branch factory in England .

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists and the increasing anti-Semitism , especially the Nazi compulsory measures against Jewish companies , Erich Gompertz emigrated to England in 1935 - just like his partner Rudolf Meinrath .

After the Second World War , the grandson Ludwig Meinrath took over the English company; and after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany , Erich Gompertz returned to his hometown in 1951, where he rebuilt the company he had returned as the Hannoversche button factory.

In 1955 Erich Gompertz was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit

In 1964 Gompertz resigned as managing director of the Hanover button factory. A short time later, in 1966, he published his English-language work on the Bible under the original title The Bible and modern man - in the German translation roughly under the question Does the Bible say the truth?

In 1970 Erich Gompertz was buried in the urn grave of his family at the Stöcken city cemetery.

See also

Fonts

  • The Bible and modern man (in English), translation from German by Palmer Hilty, New York: Ungar, 1966

literature

  • Peter Schulze : Erich Gompertz (1877-1970). Factory owner and free spirit . In: Beyond Life: A Walk Through Hanover's Cemeteries (= Writings of the Historisches Museum Hannover , Vol. 39), book accompanying the exhibition in the Historisches Museum from September 15, 2010 to January 9, 2011, with contributions by Freya Akkerman et al. , Hannover: City of Hannover, 2010, ISBN 978-3-910073-40-1

Web links

Commons : Erich Gompertz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Gompertz, Erich in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library being edited on August 26, 2011, last accessed on October 23, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Gompertz & Meinrath GmbH, Hannoversche Knopffabrik. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 226.
  3. ↑ Compare the information from the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Gompertz, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German button manufacturer and free spirit
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1970
Place of death Hanover