Georg Goldstein (economist)

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Georg Goldstein (born October 19, 1877 in Breslau ; † August 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German economist and from 1912 to 1933 director of the German Society for Merchant Recreational Homes .

Life

Georg Goldstein studied at a mining academy and did his doctorate in economics. He then worked for the Prussian government in Berlin . In 1912 he became director of the German Society for Merchant Recreational Homes (GKH), which had been founded in 1910 by Joseph Baum.

In 1914 Goldstein married his wife Margarethe geb. Lasker in Trebnitz in Silesia . Their daughter Barbara was born in Wiesbaden in 1917 and their son Franz in 1920 . The family initially lived on Lanzstrasse, later in the house on Parkstrasse 8. They were active in the Liberal Jewish Community in Wiesbaden.

Goldstein had a decisive influence on the German Society for Merchant Recreational Homes in Wiesbaden for over 20 years. In 1930 the house he helped to plan was inaugurated on the Alb in Bad Urach . By then, the company had built or bought and converted 43 rest homes with over 5,000 beds under Goldstein's leadership. In 1930 alone, the houses accommodated 43,589 guests for almost 600,000 catering days. The company was financed with endowment capital that Georg Goldstein had acquired on a large scale. The society's supporters included Robert Bosch and Eduard Breuninger in Stuttgart and the textile manufacturer Robert Kempel in Bad Urach.

On June 10, 1933, Georg Goldstein was dismissed from the company's board of directors because he was Jewish. The two children went into exile in Great Britain , but the parents were unable to follow due to financial reasons. Georg Goldstein continued to be involved in the increasingly persecuted Jewish community in Wiesbaden, and in 1942 they were housed in a shared accommodation in Frankfurt am Main . On March 18, 1943, they were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp , and in August Georg Goldstein was murdered in Auschwitz. Margarethe Goldstein was deported to Auschwitz on October 9, 1943 and murdered there.

Honors

  • The commercial school in Bad Urach was named after Georg Goldstein.
  • Since 2009 a stumbling stone in front of the house on the Alb in Bad Urach has been reminding of Georg Goldstein.
  • Harald Kuntz and Dorothee Lottmann-Kaeseler released the documentary Georg Goldstein - To Remember in 2019 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b In memory of Dr. Georg and Margarethe Goldstein. In: Active Museum Spiegelgasse Wiesbaden. Retrieved June 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Hans-Peter Kuhnle: Person / Vita - Georg Goldstein School. Accessed June 8, 2019 (German).
  3. ^ "Georg Goldstein - To Remember" in Caligari, press release. In: City of Wiesbaden. January 24, 2019, accessed June 8, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Goldstein, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH August 1943
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp