Ferdinand Elsbach

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Ferdinand Elsbach;
Drawing by August Heitmüller , around 1929

Ferdinand Elsbach (born 15 February 1864 in Walldorf at the Werra , died 5. June 1931 in Hannover ) was a German textile - Kaufmann and - fabrikant and multiple economic - and association official .

Life

Detail of the “old” Elsbach & Frank department store

Ferdinand Elsbach came from a Jewish family. He graduated from high school in Heiligenstadt and trained as a businessman in Göttingen . As a youth he went to Hanover in 1882 during the founding of the German Empire . There, at the age of 25, he and Julius Frank founded the textile retail business Elsbach & Frank , which they called “Kaufhaus zum Stern”. For her retail business specializing in men's and boys' clothing, Elsbach was one of the first to take up the idea of ​​manufacturing goods in-house, the so-called "self-made".

Ferdinand Elsbach was involved in numerous business and employer associations : He became a co-founder and board member of the Reich Association for Men's and Boys' Clothing , based in Düsseldorf . At the time of the Weimar Republic in 1923, he was elected first chairman of the Hanoverian retail trade association , which emerged from the employers' association for the retail sector , and from 1925 also represented the association in the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry . In addition, he was the second chairman of the Lower Saxony Retail Association and co-founder and board member of the employers' association for the tailoring trade , Hanover branch. He was also a member of the board of the Lower Saxony-Kassel Economic Association .

In addition, Elsbach worked as a commercial judge .

Elsbach had been a member of the board of the Hanoverian Jewish community since 1910 ; as the second head, he headed the Jewish welfare system until 1923 . He was also involved in the Red Cross .

Panels for Ferdinand and Ida Elsbach in the Jewish cemetery at An der Strangriede
Tomb of the Elsbach and Frank families based on a design by Wilhelm Mackensen

After his death in 1931 Elsbachs widow lived Ida , nee Rosenberg (* February 15, 1871) from 1936 in Berlin - they died for the National Socialist period in 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp .

The common grave for the Elsbach and Frank families in the Jewish cemetery at An der Strangriede was designed by the architect Wilhelm Mackensen .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Elsbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Peter Schulze: Elsbach, Ferdinand. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 108; online through google books
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h anonymous: Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature , (August Heitmüller drew the heads. Wilhelm Metzig designed the entire equipment of the plant.), Vol. 1. Verlag H. Osterwald, Hanover ( around 1929), without page numbers
personal data
SURNAME Elsbach, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Walldorf
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1931
Place of death Hanover