Fritz Hollander

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Friedrich "Fritz" Hollander (born September 25, 1915 ; † 2004 ) was a German-Swedish industrialist and association official.

Life

His parents were Julius Jeshajahu Hollander (1879–1937) and Paula, geb. Gutmann. His father had founded the foundation for the Jewish community in Altona in 1916 .

As a 16-year-old Fritz Hollander started the company F. Hollander & Co cooperate. His father and eldest brother Herman had started to organize this family business, founded in 1862, internationally.

In 1933 he emigrated to Sweden, where he became managing director of F. Hollander & Co. AB and the leather and skins trading company AB Baltiska Skinnkompaniet . He was also a board member of Hollander branches in Stockholm, Tel Aviv, New York, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Montreal and Bulawayo .

In 1938 he married Camilla Ettlinger, with whom he had four children. Camilla, who worked at the Museum of Ethnology, was Willy Gordon's model for the sculpture Camilla Assise .

Camille Assise, in front of the Eriksdalsbadet building, Stockholm

He sympathized with German communists like Karl Mewis , whom he also supported financially. Although Heinrich Wiatrek , who was arrested in Copenhagen in May 1941 , according to Michael F. Scholz , also mentioned Hollander to the Gestapo for the KPD section command north, he received Swedish citizenship on November 6, 1942.

In 1934 he founded Zeira Mizrachi, whose president he was in 1934/35 and 1936-38 and a representative until 1940. In 1938 he was a co-founder and board member of Emigraternas Självhälp . From 1944 he was also a board member of the WJC section Sweden. From 1962 he was President of Judiska Församlingen i Stockholm . In 1968 he was President of the Swedish Zionist Federation .

honors and awards

  • 1947 Knight of the Order of the Lion of Finland
  • 1948 Award from the Finnish child protection association Mannerheims barnskyddsförbund
  • 1949 Honored by the Swedish Red Cross
  • 1953 Knight of the Swedish Vasa Order, 1st class

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Memoriam
  2. ^ Julius Hollander, 58, Dies in Amsterdam; Former rich banker
  3. ↑ was 1862-1996 Baltiska Skinnkompaniet
  4. ↑ Gåtanslösning: Hon var ”Camilla Assise” ( Memento from September 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Herbert Wehner in Sweden 1941–1946; Pp. 62, 63
  6. ^ Swedish Zionist Federation Urges Greater Immigration to Israel . In: JTA of October 9, 1968, accessed April 27, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Hollander, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hollander, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swedish industrialist and association official
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1915
DATE OF DEATH 2004