Henri Hinrichsen

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Henri Hinrichsen (around 1928)

Henri Hinrichsen (born February 5, 1868 in Hamburg , † September 17, 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German music publisher and donor in Leipzig .

Life

“ Stumbling blocks ” for the Hinrichsen family in front of the Talstr. 10 in Leipzig
Residential and commercial building of Henri Hinrichsen and the music publisher CF Peters
Restitution stone for Dr. Henri Hinrichsen and relatives at the Südfriedhof in Leipzig

Hinrichsen trained as a music dealer and publisher in Leipzig, Basel , Brussels and London . From 1898 he was born with Martha. Bendix (1879–1941) married. They had two daughters and five sons.

Since May 15, 1891, Henri Hinrichsen was in Leipzig at the music publisher CF Peters , which his uncle Dr. Max Abraham belonged, employed. On January 1, 1894, he became a partner in the publishing house; after his uncle's suicide in 1900, he continued to run the publishing house on his own.

Hinrichsen stood up especially for contemporary composers such as Johannes Brahms, Edvard Grieg, Gustav Mahler and especially Max Reger. Grieg was close friends with Hinrichsen and even had a room of his own in the family home.

Henri Hinrichsen was a secret councilor, commercial judge and Leipzig city councilor. In 1929 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig.

In 1911, Hinrichsen, who was in close contact with the pedagogue Henriette Goldschmidt (1825–1920), founded the University for Women in Leipzig , the first institution of its kind in Germany, which in 1921, after the school founder died, became the sponsorship of the City of Leipzig passed over, but was further generously supported by Henri Hinrichsen. In 1926 he donated 200,000  Reichsmarks , with which the University of Leipzig was able to buy the "Wilhelm Heyer Musical Instrument Collection" from Cologne ; this collection founded today's Museum for Musical Instruments at the University of Leipzig .

Henri Hinrichsen was a nationally minded German; He was honored by the German Kaiser and therefore initially felt safe in Germany despite the political conditions. In 1938, however, he was expropriated by the so-called " Aryanization " of the music publisher. In 1940 Hinrichsen left for Brussels and waited for a visa for England and the USA . His son Max Hinrichsen (1901–1965) refused to stay in Germany to head Edition Peters; he emigrated in the mid-1930s and founded Peters Edition in London . His other son Walter Hinrichsen (1907–1969) had already left Germany in 1936 and founded the CF Peters Corporation in New York .

Henri Hinrichsen did not receive the visa he had hoped to leave the country. His wife Martha died in Belgium in 1941 because, as a Jew, she did not receive the insulin she needed to treat her diabetes . Henri Hinrichsen was arrested in Brussels, deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered there on September 17, 1942 at the age of 74.

In 1945 his son Walter Hinrichsen returned to Leipzig as an American officer. He got his father's publishing house back and saw to it that the “Social Pedagogical Women's Seminar” was renamed the Henriette Goldschmidt School in Leipzig . The Königstrasse, where the school is located, was named “Goldschmidtstrasse” in 1947. Three paintings from the Hinrichsen art collection were given to the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig by Hinrichsen's son Walter, and several books from Hinrichsen's private library were returned to a granddaughter by the Bremen State and University Library in 1993.

In addition to Max and Walter Hinrichsen, their youngest brother Robert (1918–1981) also managed to travel to England. He changed his name to Robert Harris and worked as an accountant in Birmingham. Paul Hinrichsen (1912–1943) was murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp, Hans Joachim Hinrichsen († September 29, 1940) was killed in the Saint-Cyprien internment camp in France. Henri Hinrichsen's daughters Charlotte (1898–1980) and Ilse (1904–1987) survived the Holocaust. Ilse's husband, the surgeon Ludwig Frankenthal (1881–1944) and their sons Günther (1929–1945) and Wolfgang Frankenthal (1931–1944) were murdered in Auschwitz. Max Hinrichsen's daughter was Irene Lawford-Hinrichsen (* 1935 in Leipzig, † May 2, 2017 in London), who deals with the history of the publisher and her family.

The publishing house in Leipzig was expropriated by the SED until 1950 and remained public property until German reunification . Walter Hinrichsen and Johannes Petschul, who had been running the publishing house in Leipzig since 1939, moved their own company headquarters to Frankfurt am Main . Without the group formation, which has long been advancing in the publishing industry , all publishing houses with the name CF Peters have been operating under the umbrella of the Edition Peters Group since 2010, which is owned by the Hinrichsen Foundation and (from 2016) Christian Hinrichsen. In 2014, the two locations in Germany were merged again in Leipzig alongside those in London and New York.

Honors

literature

  • Erika Bucholtz: Henri Hinrichsen and the music publisher CF Peters: German-Jewish bourgeoisie in Leipzig from 1891 to 1938. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2001 (series of scientific papers by the Leo-Baeck-Institut; 65) Zugl .: Berlin, Techn. Univ., Diss., 2000 ISBN 3-16-147638-7
  • Irene Lawford-Hinrichsen: Music Publishing and Patronage - CF Peters: 1800 to the Holocaust. London: Edition Press 2000 ISBN 0953611205
  • Sophie Fetthauer: Music publishers in the “Third Reich” and in exile. (Music in the “Third Reich” and in Exile, Volume 10) By Bockel Verlag Hamburg 2004 ISBN 3-932696-52-2
  • Irene Lawford-Hinrichsen; Norbert Molkenbur: CF Peters - a German music publisher in Leipzig's cultural life. On the work of Max Abraham and Henri Hinrichsen. In: Ephraim Carlebach Foundation (ed.): Judaica Lipsiensia: On the history of the Jews in Leipzig. Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1994. pp. 92-109
  • Irene Lawford-Hinrichsen: Five Hundred Years to Auschwitz: A Family Odyssey from the Inquisition to the Present . Bertrams 2008. ISBN 0953611213 .
  • Annerose Kemp; Eberhard Ulm: Henriette Goldschmidt School 1911 - 2011. Leipzig 2011.

Web links

Commons : Henri Hinrichsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Stolpersteine ​​Leipzig
  2. ^ Zeraschi, Helmut: History of the Museum , in: Series of publications of the Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Karl-Marx-Universität , Vol. 2. Leipzig: Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Karl-Marx-Universität 1977.
  3. ^ Eckhard Braun: return procedure of the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig . In: Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property Magdeburg (Hrsg.): Contributions ... by public institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany on the handling of cultural property from former Jewish property . Magdeburg 2001, p. 202-231 .
  4. ↑ Jürgen Babendreier: Jewish book and traces of life . In: Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property Magdeburg (Hrsg.): Contributions ... by public institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany on the handling of cultural property from former Jewish property . Magdeburg 2001, p. 38-55 .
  5. ^ Sophie Fetthauer: Robert Harris , in: Claudia Maurer Zenck, Peter Petersen (ed.): Lexicon of persecuted musicians during the Nazi era . Hamburg: University of Hamburg 2007 ( online )
  6. ↑ Literarisches Zentralblatt für Deutschland 58 (1907), p. 285
personal data
SURNAME Hinrichsen, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1942
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp