Barasch brothers

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Gebrüder Barasch was the name of a German chain of department stores . The owners were the two Jewish merchants Artur Barasch and Georg Barasch.

Branches

The Barasch brothers' department stores were located in Gliwice , in Kattowitz (founded in 1902), in Breslau (founded in 1904, “Aryanized” in 1936), in Magdeburg at Breiten Weg 149, in Beuthen O / S. , in Braunschweig and in Königsberg in Prussia . A department store in Neisse , which also ran under the name “Gebrüder Barasch”, went bankrupt during the economic crisis in 1913/14. The owner of this department store was Benno Robert. In Jauer and Waldenburg , as in Neisse , branches were opened in response to the department store tax legislation.

The facade of the Magdeburg department store was decorated with expressionist paintings by Oskar Fischer . The building has not been preserved.

Brands

Among other things, the Barasch brothers sold a shoe polish called “Baratol”, which is more commonly known today as the explosive of the same name.

They also ran a “Photographic Atelier Gebr. Barasch Breslau” in their department store in Breslau. As a trademark, a kind of pillar with the name Barasch was printed on the back of the pictures between two stylized human figures.

Biographical

Georg Barasch

Georg Barasch was probably born in 1867. His daughter Herta was born in 1898, the son Erich in 1905. Both children were born in Breslau.

A merchant named Georg Barasch tried to settle in Traunstein in 1894 , but this was prevented by attacks with an anti-Semitic background. The magazine Der Israelit reported on December 3, 1894: “Traunstein, November 30 (1894). The reported anti-Semitic attack is reported further: In Traunstein there lives a single Israelite merchant named Georg Barasch (Josef Rieder Bazar's successor). A powder attack was carried out on his home a few months ago. This was later followed by a frustrated assassination attempt that appears to have been for his life. The day before yesterday is the third. Each time an anti-Semitic meeting preceded it. The attack the day before yesterday appears to have been carried out with dynamite. The roller shutter of the entrance door to the shop and the door posts were torn out and partly lay on the approximately 18-meter-wide street, partly in the trees in the garden opposite. A shop window was smashed, some of the goods were singed. In the other window the glassware was mixed up. The damage is about 600 marks. We are told that the anti-Semitic 'heroes', Mr Barasch, who is said to be the only Israelite merchant in Traunstein, have the expressed intention to paw out of the city and the anti-Semites are so brutal in their despicable doings that distinguished ladies Mr Barasch Urgently asked not to tell anyone that they were his customers. Men whose wives shop at Barasch have received threatening letters! The merchant received numerous sympathy rallies. Tonight he had set up two guards at his own expense. "

In time, this Georg Barasch could be identical to the later chain store operator, who died as a grandfather in Quito in 1943 . Georg Barasch's wife Betty and his son Erich were also in Quito at the time, daughter Herta with husband Joachim Krotoschiner and daughters Hanni and Lili were living on Broadway 2528 in New York City at the time. Georg Barasch may have emigrated via Switzerland and Santiago de Cuba.

Artur Barasch

The spelling of the first name of the two Barasch brothers fluctuates, in addition to Artur, the form Arthur is often found. Artur Barasch is said to have started his career as a “simple apprentice with primary education”. He was a freemason, member of the Silesian Automobile Club, owner of the Iron Cross and art patron. He also organized art exhibitions in the Wroclaw department store. In 1906 Barasch was the chairman of the Breslauer Handelsgehilfen-Verband and in 1908 was a member of the board of the newly founded “Association of Breslauer Retailers”. Later he was a member of the founding committee of the eye clinic in Bad Liebenstein and, in this capacity, took over all tasks from the elected secretary as a “very skilled gentleman who performed his social functions at least as well as a court marshal”. Perhaps in connection with this activity, the Barasch brothers also registered a patent for military glasses with interchangeable lenses in 1914.

Stumbling block for Artur Barasch

Artur Barasch, born in 1872, was no longer able to emigrate in time. A stumbling block was laid for him at his last place of residence in Berlin-Grunewald, Wissmannstrasse 11 . According to Werner Barasch, the family moved from Breslau to Berlin in 1921; Artur Barasch's wife taught at the State University of Fine Arts. Steinau is given as the birthplace of Artur Barasch; he perished in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . His wife Irene Barasch-Haas and the children Else and Werner survived the Third Reich because they left Germany on time. Else Barasch, born in Breslau in 1917, died at the age of 95 on October 23, 2012 as Dr. Else Ross in Napa .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Apparently the name was sometimes also written “Barrasch”, cf. Handlers sheet No. 77 from September 1, 1900 (PDF; 7.4 MB).
  2. ↑ katowice.gazeta.pl: Dom handlowy braci Barasch (Polish)
  3. ↑ Ramona Bräu: "Aryanization" in Breslau - The "De-Judaization" of a German city and its discovery in the Polish memory discourse . VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-8364-5958-7 , pp. 40-42.
  4. ^ Frank Pega: The activities of the Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand AG from 1925 to 1945. P. 243. ( online ; PDF; 1.8 MB)
  5. ↑ Addresses according to Fotorevers.eu
  6. ^ Uwe Spiekermann: Basis of the consumer society. Beck, 1990, ISBN 3-406-44874-7 , p. 379.
  7. ↑ Werner Rubens: The battle of the specialty shop against the department store. With special consideration of the period from 1918 to 1929. M. Klestadt, 1929, p. 34.
  8. ↑ Advertisement Gebr. Barasch (PDF; 2.8 MB). In: Volksstimme. No. 211, Magdeburg, September 9, 1911, p. 8.
  9. ↑ Baratol advertising brand.
  10. ↑ Picture including lapel with studio name on Fotorevers.eu
  11. ↑ ancestry.de
  12. ↑ quoted from alemannia-judaica.de
  13. ↑ Obituary for Georg Barasch (PDF; 574 kB)
  14. ↑ ancestry.com
  15. ↑ Werner Barasch: Entronnen: Autobiographical sketch of the years 1938 to 1946. Haag + Herchen, 2001, ISBN 3-89846-001-0 , p. 18.
  16. ^ Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann : The politics of sociability. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-35911-X , p. 191.
  17. ↑ Allgemeine Automobil-Zeitung. 15, 1914, p. 235.
  18. ↑ Petra Hölscher: The Academy for Art and Applied Arts in Breslau. Paths to an art school 1791–1932. Kiel 2003, ISBN 3-933598-50-8 , p. 417.
  19. ↑ Stefi Jersch-Wenzel (ed.): Sources on the history of the Jews in Polish archives. Volume 2: Former Prussian Province of Silesia. P. 211.
  20. ↑ Finance archive. 26, 1909, p. 254.
  21. ↑ Jacob Simon, Katharina Witter (ed.): A Jewish life in Thuringia: Memories of life until 1930. Böhlau 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20382-5 , p. 87.
  22. ↑ Theodor Axenfeld: Handbook of medical experiences in the world wars 1914/1918. JA Barth, 1922, p. 264.
  23. ^ Werner Barasch: escaped. Autobiographical sketch from 1938 to 1946. Haag + Herchen, 2001, ISBN 3-89846-001-0 , p. 18 f.
  24. ↑ data on berlin.de
  25. ↑ life data on yadvashem.org
  26. ↑ Obituary for Dr. Else Ross