Georg Liebermann

Georg Liebermann (born July 3, 1844 in Berlin , † April 13, 1926 ) was a German entrepreneur in the textile industry and mechanical engineering .

family

Georg Liebermann was the eldest child of the textile manufacturer Louis Liebermann and a brother of the painter Max Liebermann (1847–1935). His other younger siblings were Anna, Martin and the historian Felix Liebermann . Georg Liebermann married Else Marckwald (1855-1924), the older of the Marckwald sisters, his brother Max Liebermann married their younger sister Martha Marckwald (1858-1943).

Georg Liebermann and his wife Else had three sons, including the chemist Hans Liebermann (1876–1938), who committed suicide in 1938 after being dismissed from civil service for reasons of race and after years of persecution .

Entrepreneurial career

Georg became involved in the Dannenberg'sche Kattunfabriken Benjamin, Louis and Georg Liebermann company in Berlin from his father Louis in 1869 and joined the management team. In 1877 he went into business for himself by taking over the Fiedler cotton spinning mill in Falkenau (Saxony) . In 1883 - after a major fire - he bought the Schreyer brothers' factory and at the same time the Beaumont spinning mill. Liebermann ran a cotton mill with a twisting mill . Produced carded and combed yarns for hosiery, Trikotagen-, gloves and sewing thread and yarns for weaving and curtains industry. The company also had a hydroelectric power station. In addition to textile products, the company also manufactured machines for other companies in the textile industry.

The company developed dynamically under Liebermann's leadership. In 1887 he only had 25,000 spindles, in 1905 106,000 spindles. This meant an increase of 324%. In 1905 the company had around 900 employees. In 1913 the company was converted into a stock corporation as Georg Liebermann Nachf. AG . In 1941 she was in cotton mill Sokolov AG renamed . In 1939 the company was one of the companies that were supposed to store cotton in case of war. The company's tradition was continued during the GDR era , before the factories were gradually closed after the fall of the Wall.

Georg Liebermann was one of the most important Jewish entrepreneurs in Berlin. His fortune for 1913 was estimated at 6.1 million marks and his annual income at 400,000 marks.

Social reformer

Liebermann was socially reformist and a member of the Central Association for the Good of the Working Class . On the occasion of the twenty-five year business anniversary, he founded a single home for his employees with 100,000 marks in capital. A kindergarten, a people's kitchen and a bathing establishment were connected to it. He had numerous houses built for his workers. In 1897 there were already 112 houses with 540 apartments. The rental income went to the company's workers' benefit fund.

Liebermann was involved in local politics as a city ​​councilor in Berlin. He played a key role in founding the voluntary educational advisory board for school-leavers and was also a member of the association's board.

villa

Memorial column at Tiergartenstraße, roughly at the same level as the former Villa Liebermann

Georg Liebermann had the villa at Tiergartenstrasse 4 built for himself and his family in what was then one of the most elegant residential areas in Berlin . His heirs lost the villa in 1940 through " Aryanization ". This then became the seat of the main office II of the leader's office responsible for euthanasia ( Action T4 ). The building was damaged by bombs during the war and later demolished. Today the Berlin Philharmonic stands roughly at this point .

literature

• Regina Scheer : Max Liebermann talks about his life. (with original audio document) Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-9424-7605-8 .
• Regine Scheer: We are the Liebermanns. A family story. Munich 2006, ISBN 9783549072882 .
• Marina Sandig: The Liebermanns. A biographical picture of the times and culture of the Prussian-Jewish family and relatives of Max Liebermann . (= German Family Archives , Volume 146.) 2005, ISBN 3-7686-5190-8 .
• Marina Sandig: You believed you were German. Martha Liebermann Marckwald, a family story between Prussian-Jewish origins and the Shoah . 2010, ISBN 978-3-7686-5204-9 .
• Philipp Stauff (Hrsg.): Literary lexicon of writers, poets, bankers, moneyers, doctors, actors ... of Jewish race and ethnicity who were active and known in Germany from 1813–1913. Berlin 1913, volume 1.

Web links

• Genealogy of the Pringsheim family with data on the Marckwald / Liebermann family ( memento from November 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Overview of the family of Louis Liebermann and his children (PDF file; 190 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The middle Zschopau area (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 28). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1977, p. 82.
2. ^ Deutsche Rundschau for Geography and Statistics , Volume 27, 1905, p. 514.
3. ↑ Höschle: The German textile industry between 1933 and 1939. P. 105. ( limited preview on Google books )
4. ↑ Entry on reichsbank-aktien-shop.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Berlin and its economy. Berlin 1987, p. 127.
6. ^ Cella-Margaretha Girardet: Jewish patrons for the Prussian museums in Berlin. A study of patronage in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic. Hänsel-Hohenhausen (pseudo -publishing ), 1997, p. 181.
7. ↑ Der Arbeiterfreund, Zeitschrift für die Arbeiterfrage, Organ of the Central Association for the Welfare of the Working Class , year 1875, p. 407.
8. ^ Der Arbeiterfreund, Zeitschrift für die Arbeiterfrage, Organ of the Central Association for the Welfare of the Working Class , year 1905, p. 372.
9. ↑ Official communications from the annual reports of the trade inspectorate. Berlin 1898, p. 398.
10. ↑ Meinolf Nitsch: Private Charity Association in the Empire. Berlin / New York 1999, p. 80, p. 400.
11. ↑ Entry on Aktiensammler.de