Hans Rollmann

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Hans Rollmann (born August 10, 1877 in Cologne , † May 25, 1940 in Calais , France) was a German shoe manufacturer.

Life

Stolperstein Hans Rollmann Vogelsanger Str. 1 ( Kreuzgasse grammar school )
Stumbling Stone Hans Rollmann, Pferdmengesstrasse 25
Stumbling Stone Marie Rollmann, Pferdmengesstrasse 25

After attending the Kreuzgasse high school in Cologne, he completed an apprenticeship in his father's shoe factory, Rollmann & Mayer . In 1911, Hans Rollmann took over the Rollmann & Mayer company and continued to run it successfully. At the end of 1921, Hans Rollmann and two partners founded another shoe factory, Romika in Gusterath Valley .

Hans Rollmann had been married to Marie Hertz since 1909, and was also born in Cologne on October 8, 1889. The couple had three sons. Since the family belonged to the Jewish religion , they were discriminated against after the Nazis came to power . The family members as well as the companies were exposed to attacks by the National Socialists .

In 1935 Hans Rollmann did not return to Germany after a stay at a health resort in Switzerland , as he had been warned that his arrest was imminent. The National Socialists looked for the family by means of a tax profile and accessed the family's private and corporate assets in order to collect the discriminatory Reichsfluchtsteuer . The family lost all of their property in Germany. On November 8, 1935, the entire interior of the Villa Rollmann in Cologne-Marienburg , Goltsteinstrasse 223 (today Pferdmengesstrasse 25) was foreclosed on behalf of the Reich Finance Administration at the auction house Franz A. Menna in Cologne. Over 400 positions were called up.

The family chose Brussels (Belgium) as their place of residence and tried to prepare for their emigration to the USA from there . With the attack by the Wehrmacht on neighboring countries to the west , Hans and Marie Rollmann were threatened again. To avoid arrest by the National Socialists, Hans and Marie committed suicide on May 25, 1940 in Calais , France, where they had fled. The sons managed to escape to America, where two of the three brothers set up another shoe factory.

As of 1949, the sons of Hans and Marie Rollmann raised claims for reimbursement of their stolen property as part of the restitution process, in the case of the Romika shoe factory together with the former co-shareholder Karl Kaufmann. In her opinion, the persecution by the National Socialists brought the family into economic difficulties, which ultimately led to the bankruptcies of the factories. They had also lost their private wealth simply because of the discriminatory legislation. Through decisions of various restitution courts or through settlement agreements with the subsequent owners, the sons received financial compensation for their stolen property.

In 2010, in front of their last freely chosen place of residence, their villa at Goltsteinstraße 223 (this section of the street is now renamed Pferdmengesstraße) in Cologne-Marienburg, stumbling blocks were laid in memory of Hans and Marie Rollmann, their achievements and their discrimination . In memory of Hans Rollmann, another stumbling block was laid in front of the Kreuzgasse grammar school .

literature

  • Shoe manufacturer newspaper . Born 14.1933, issue 1, January 4, 1933.
  • Ernst G. Lowenthal: Jewish high school students in Cologne in: Cologne and the Rhenish Judentum, Festschrift Germania Judaica 1959–1984, p. 159.
  • Notices from the city council of Calais / France.
  • Emil Frank Institute (editor): A Jewish factory: the ROMIKA shoe factories in Gusterath Valley and Rollmann & Mayer in Cologne . Paulinus, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7902-1902-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article 16vor.de Part I: The “forgotten” years of Romika ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 20, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.16vor.de
  2. ^ Art and auction house Franz A. Menna: compulsory auction on behalf of the Reich Finance Administration: establishment of the Villa H. Rollmann, Cologne-Marienburg, Goltsteinstrasse 223 , Cologne 1935, 20 p., 4 plates, online version , accessed on 3. February 2015
  3. ↑ Article 16 before Part II: "The correct Romika" ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.16vor.de
  4. ↑ ns documentation center: Stumbling block for Hans Rollmann , accessed on February 3, 2015
  5. ↑ ns documentation center: Stumbling block for Marie Rollmann , accessed on February 3, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Rollmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shoe manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1940
Place of death Calais