Georg Arnhold

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Georg Arnhold (born March 1, 1859 in Dessau , † November 25, 1926 in Innsbruck ) was a German banker and pacifist.

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Georg Arnhold's grave

He was born in Dessau in 1859 as the son of the Jewish doctor Adolph Arnhold (1808–1872) and his wife Mathilde, b. Cohn (1826–1905) born. Eduard Arnhold and Max Arnhold were his brothers.

After prematurely dropping out of high school, Georg Arnhold began an apprenticeship as a banker with his brother Max in 1875. In 1881 he became co-owner of the bank, which his brother Max co-founded in 1864, which was now called the Arnhold Brothers Bank and was one of the leading German private banks until it was Aryanized and taken over by Dresdner Bank in 1935/1938.

Privy councilor Arnhold was a member of numerous associations and provided moral and financial support, e.g. B. the peace movement and the Esperanto movement, u. a. as co-founder of the Saxon Esperanto Institute in 1908. In 1925 he was made an honorary senator of the Technical University of Dresden .

He was married to Anna, born in 1882. Beyer (1860-1917). The couple had six children: Ella, married Lewenz (1883–1954), Adolf (1884–1950), Heinrich (1885–1935), Kurt (1887–1951), Hans (1888–1966), and Ilse, married Maron ( 1890–1974). The sons jointly took over the bank and ran it until it was forced to Aryanization . All emigrated from Germany.

Arnold's grave is located in the New Israelite Cemetery in Dresden.

Foundations

Georg-Arnhold-Bad behind the Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion (now a newly built DDV-Stadion )

Georg Arnhold financed three-quarters of the Georg-Arnhold-Bad in Dresden , which opened in 1926 . In order to erase the name of the Jewish founder, the bathing establishment was renamed Güntzwiesenbad in 1934. In 1948 it got its original name back. Arnold's grandchildren contributed financially to the modernization carried out from 1994 to 1997.

From 2006 to 2008, the Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden presented numerous objects in a special exhibition entitled “Treasures from Africa, Indonesia and the South Seas - The Baessler and Arnhold Donations ”, which the anthropologist Otto Schlaginhaufen on a study trip financed by Georg Arnhold to the Sepik in New Guinea had collected.

literature

  • Simone Lässig: Culture and Commerce - The Example of the Arnhold Banking Family . In: Dresdner Geschichtsverein eV (Ed.): Collectors and patrons in Dresden (=  Dresdner Hefte ). No. 49 . Dresden 1997, p. 39 ff . ( online [accessed February 15, 2013]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Special exhibition Treasures from Africa, Indonesia and the South Seas. The Baessler and Arnhold donations. Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on August 24, 2018 .
  2. ^ Ulrich Lins: On the history of the Esperanto Institute in Saxony 1908–1936. In: Martin Haase: Contributions to the history of the German Esperanto movement. German Esperanto Institute, Berlin 2000, pp. 20-29.
  3. ↑ 175 years of TU Dresden, Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna, p. 9.
  4. ^ Uwe Scholz: New Israelitischer Friedhof in Dresden. In: juden-in-mittelachsen.de. Project Shalom CJD Chemnitz, October 20, 2005, accessed on August 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Arnhold, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Jewish banker and pacifist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1926
Place of death innsbruck