Felix Kallmann

Felix Kallmann (* November 18, 1853; † November 13, 1938) was a German lawyer.

The son of Prussian parents of Jewish denomination converted to Protestantism. With his wife Ernestine, geb. Hirschberg, he had the son Hartmut .

After advancing the patent association with AEG and Siemens & Halske in 1909, he resigned from the board of Deutsche Gasglühlicht AG in March 1913 .

After Deutsche Bank took over the majority stake in UFA in 1921 , he became its CEO until February 28, 1925. In 1924 he visited the UFA branch in New York and its manager Frederick Wynne-Jones as well as the New York premiere of Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen . Since the American public could not do much with the world-famous German Expressionism, German mysticism and romanticism, the export proceeds were disappointingly low. He was succeeded by the banker Ferdinand Bausback (1884–1948).

Kallmann dies in Berlin in 1938. His last address is Weimarer Strasse 46 in Charlottenburg. His villa at Ahornallee 33, built by Carl Stahl-Urach in 1910/11 , was acquired in 1934 by the Catholic Sisters of Our Lady , who ran the student home of the Liebfrauenschule on Lietzensee and a kindergarten teacher seminar there.

literature

• Alfred Kallmann: The grouping in the film industry, explained on the film industries of Germany and America ; 1932

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Army thing: The History of NV Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken ; Volume 2, p. 169
2. ^ Klaus Kreimeier: The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945 ; P. 72
3. ↑ Not related to Felix Kallmann.

Web links

• General Assembly (PDF; 1.3 MB)
• Ex-libris by Felix Kallmann , designed by Erich F. Hübner (1883–1920)