George Gerard Arnhold

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George Gerard Arnhold (also Gerard Arnhold , actually Georg-Gerhard Arnhold ; born August 6, 1918 in Dresden ; died July 31, 2010 in São Paulo , Brazil ) was a German-Brazilian entrepreneur.

Life

Georg-Gerhard Arnhold was the eldest of three sons of Kurt Arnhold and his wife Elsa, nee. Zimmermann, born in Dresden, is a grandson of Georg Arnhold . After completing primary school, he attended the Kreuzschule in Dresden,

After the National Socialists came to power, the process of "Aryanization" of the Arnhold brothers' banking house , which had been founded in 1864 by Max Arnhold , began. Kurt Arnhold, the father of George Gerard Arnhold, was responsible for this in Dresden until the end of 1938, which, under increasingly difficult conditions, made it possible to a large extent that large parts of the private collections could be moved abroad, albeit with great financial losses the family left for Switzerland in several stages by 1939 and all family members were able to survive.

Gerard Arnhold, who first came to Great Britain with parents and brothers via the Netherlands, studied in Cambridge, but lived with his family in São Paulo from 1951, the year his father died, although both his and his father's activities in Brazil is known as good as nothing: According to his own, not verified, information he was “in the photo business”.

From 1999 until his death in 2010 he was President of the Friends of the Dresden Philharmonic and also supported the State Art Collections and the Ethnographic Museum.

Arnhold library

The so-called Arnhold Library , consisting of around 350 titles with 450 volumes, which were collected between approx. 1910 and approx. 1935, some with personal dedications, came directly from São Paulo in the early 1990s, donated by Gerard Arnhold Paulo to the Evangelical Kreuzgymnasium in Dresden.

George Gerard Arnhold has two sons (Anthony George and Julian Edward Stephan) and a daughter (Susan Michele Gertrud). Contrary to many published information, he is the cousin of Henry H. Arnhold , not his brother: both of your fathers were brothers.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Message from sachsen-fernsehen.de , accessed on May 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ On the process itself and the effect on the departure see Ingo Köhler: The 'Aryanization' of the private banks in the Third Reich: repression, elimination and the question of reparations. CHBeck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-53200-9 , pp. 207-239, limited book preview at books.google.de , accessed on May 26, 2018.
  3. ^ A b Lars Weber: "Arnhold Library" ?! What's this? What is it? How did she get to us? , (PDF), accessed on May 26, 2018.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Appell: Jews in Erlangen , Volume II, First World War, pp. 3–4, PDF , accessed on May 26, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Arnhold, George Gerard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnhold, Gerard; Arnhold, Georg-Gerhard (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Brazilian entrepreneur, collector and patron
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 2010
Place of death São Paulo , Brazil