Fritz Aschinger

Fritz Aschinger (born September 27, 1894 in Berlin ; † August 1949 there ) was a German restaurateur who inherited what was for a long time the largest restaurant in Europe, the Aschinger company in Berlin, from his father August and his brother Carl Aschinger .

Life

Fritz was the only son of the Berlin restaurateur August Aschinger and his wife Helene nee Neumann, whom he married in April 1888 in Berlin. From this marriage, the daughter Elisabeth Aschinger († August 1949 in Freiburg im Breisgau ), married to Alexander Kermektschiew since 1912, continued.

After the early death of his father in 1911 he inherited the founded by his father and his brother Carl Aschinger in 1892 company Aschinger , which had become the largest restaurant business in Europe. Fritz Aschinger was still too young to take over the management of Aschinger Aktiengesellschaft, so that shortly before his death, his father appointed Hans Lohnert as general director of the entrepreneur and at the same time appointed him administrator.

After completing vocational training in his own company, Fritz Aschinger joined the company's board of directors after the end of the First World War and took on the post of director. Together with Hans Lohnert, he also contributed to the company's expansion during the inflationary period . In 1924 the "Berliner Hotelgesellschaft" and two years later the "Hotelbetriebs-Aktien-Gesellschaft" were acquired.

In the course of the expropriation (" Aryanization ") of the Kempinski Group, Fritz Aschinger also took over the Fatherland House from Kempinski at the end of 1936 .

During the Second World War , 80 percent of the Aschinger restaurants were destroyed, so that the new beginning was difficult, especially since most of the hotels and restaurants were in the Soviet sector of Berlin. In May 1947, the Deutsche Treuhandstelle for the administration of confiscated goods from war criminals and exposed fascists took over the company's administrative headquarters. In the eastern part of branches located were after without compensation expropriation 1949, the emerging HO assigned. Shortly after the expropriation, Fritz Aschinger and his sister Elisabeth Kermektschiew died by suicide .

literature

• Karl-Heinz Glaser: Aschinger's beer springs conquer Berlin. From the wine town of Oberderdingen to the up-and-coming capital . Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2004, ISBN 3-89735-291-5 .
• Heinz-Joachim Simon : The great Aschinger. Roman , Berlin, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of the Kempinski Hotel Bristol
2. ↑ Doors of built-in showcases from the "Aschinger" office