Hans Weinmann

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Hans Weinmann (* 1875 in Aussig ; † June 9, 1960 ) was a Czechoslovak industrialist.

Life and activity

Weinmann was a son of the coal mine owner Jacob Weinmann (1852–1928). In the interwar period, as the owner of numerous mines, he was one of the leading industrialists in Czechoslovakia and in Eastern Central Europe in general.

During the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, Weinmann was arrested in Prague in April 1939. In the course of negotiations to aryanize his family business, his passport was confiscated by the authorities as leverage. He then fled illegally to Great Britain with the help of his brother who had already come abroad. In the period that followed, negotiations between the Weinmann brothers and the Dresdner Bank about transferring their company into imperial ownership continued.

After his escape, Weinmann was classified by the National Socialist police as an enemy of the state: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office put him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people whom the Nazi surveillance apparatus regarded as particularly dangerous or important, which is why they should be in the event of a successful invasion and Occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht should be located and arrested by the occupation troops following special SS commandos with special priority.

In 1940 Weinmann moved to Canada. In 1941 he went to the United States. There he and two sons acquired the plastic and synthetic leather factory Pantasole Leather Company in New Jersey and the rubber goods factory HO Canfield Co. in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

family

Weinmann had been married to Stella Parnass since 1928, with whom he had three sons who, after changing their names, became known as Charley Wyman , Henry Wyman and Ralphy Wyman .

See also

literature

  • Werner Röder / Herbert A. Strauss : Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Emigration after 1933 , Vol. I (Politics, Economy, Public Life), 1980, p. 806.
  • Harald Wixforth: The Expansion of Dresdner Bank in Europe , 2006.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Weinmann on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
personal data
SURNAME Weinmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Aussig
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1960