Fritz Adler (manufacturer)

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Fritz Adler (* 1888 as Friedrich Adler , †?) Was a German-Jewish manufacturer and a victim of Aryanization .

Life

The manufacturer Fritz Adler, together with his brother Lothar and cousin Walter Neumann, owned the J. & CA Schneider (JCAS) shoe factory . It was acquired by Ludwig and Lothar Adler in 1911. When Ludwig Adler died, Fritz Adler joined the company. In the 1920s and 1930s, JCAS was one of the largest manufacturers of shoes in Europe and also an important sponsor in German and international football. JCAS was instrumental in ensuring that Eintracht Frankfurt rose to become one of the top German teams at the end of the 1920s.

Walter Neumann fled to Amsterdam from the National Socialists as early as 1935 . Fritz Adler was arrested during the Reichspogromnacht and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp . He was threatened that he could only count on being released from the concentration camp if he was sold. Worn down, the owners signed the sales contract after a few weeks in front of the Frankfurt notary Kurt Wirth.

Fritz and Lothar Adler fled to the USA and settled in New York City . After the war they managed to sue for a reparation payment and also to get the company J. & CA Schneider back. However, they could no longer build on the old economic success. Fritz and Lothar Adler never returned to Germany.

literature

  • Raul Hilberg: The annihilation of the European Jews: the total history of the Holocaust. From the American by Christian Seeger et al. 840 pp. Frankfurt am Main et al. Büchergilde Gutenberg 1990. ISBN 3-7632-2763-6 .
  • Johannes Ludwig: Boycott, expropriation, murder: the "de-Judaization" of the German economy . 399 S. Hamburg; Munich: Facta-Oblita-Verlag 1992. ISBN 3-492-11580-2 .
  • Susanne Meinl, Jutta Zwilling: Legalized robbery: the plundering of the Jews during National Socialism by the Reich Finance Administration in Hesse . Scientific series of the Fritz Bauer Institute; Vol. 10: 745 S. Frankfurt / Main u. a.:Campus-Verlag. 2004. ISBN 3-593-37612-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling, Erik Eggers: Star of David and Lederball: the history of the Jews in German and international football , Die Werkstatt publishing house, 2003, p. 132
  2. ^ Hilberg, R. (1990: 153)
personal data
SURNAME Adler, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adler, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Jewish industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH 1888
DATE OF DEATH 20th century