Franz Landauer

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Franz Landauer (born July 26, 1882 in Munich ; died July 10, 1943 in Kamp Westerbork ) was a German businessman and a Munich victim of National Socialism.

Life

Franz Landauer was born in Munich in 1882. He grew up in a middle-class Jewish family and was the older brother of Kurt Landauer , the long-time president of FC Bayern Munich . He had two other brothers and two sisters. The parents ran a fashion store on Kaufingerstrasse . Landauer also worked as a businessman and married on September 23, 1908; the marriage remained childless. The married couple Tilly and Franz Landauer lived at Koeniginstrasse 85 for around 30 years . The youngest brother continued the business during the First World War ; the other three were one-year volunteers and were drafted. Landauer came to the Western Front , in 1917 he became an officer. In 1925 he and others inaugurated a war memorial in the New Israelite Cemetery for the Jews of Munich who died in the World War.

The father's company was closed in 1928; Landauer worked as an insurance agent for Phönix life insurance . In 1934, when the National Socialist persecution of Jews began, some family members left Germany; Franz and Tilly stayed in Munich. He was able to work as an insurance agent until September 1938. During the November pogroms in 1938 he was deported to the Dachau concentration camp and released after a month. After the couple paid 30,000 Reichsmarks Reich flight tax and emigration tax , they were allowed to leave for the Netherlands on August 24, 1939 ; they lived in Amsterdam . After the attack on the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg in 1940, he was abducted with his wife and mother-in-law to Kamp Westerbork in December 1942, where he died due to the prison conditions. Tilly Leister was murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 .

Today a memorial plaque on the family grave in the New Israelite Cemetery commemorates him. Since 2018 there has also been a badge on the house at Königinstrasse 85.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Judith Leister: Munich sets signs of remembrance , in: NZZ, August 4, 2018, p. 22
  2. ^ Wolfgang Görl: Remembrance and warning. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. July 26, 2018, accessed August 1, 2018 .


personal data
SURNAME Landauer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and Munich victim of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1943
Place of death Camp Westerbork