Henry Seligmann

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Henry Seligmann (born June 11, 1880 in Segeberg ; † June 11, 1933 in Hanover ) was a German - Jewish coin dealer .

Life

Seligmann did a banking apprenticeship in Hamburg from 1896 to 1903 at the Flörsheim company, which was active in the banking and exchange business and also traded coins. He then became managing director of the banking and lottery business NM Falck & Co. in Hanover. In 1905 he took over the company and led its own banking and lottery business under the name Henry Seligmann, banking Lotteries and coins business , first in the Bahnhofstrasse 1, since 1907 in Conti house in the Georgstraße 20. In addition to selling lottery tickets realigned and the money exchange Seligmann the business more on the coin trade and under the name coin shop Henry Seligmannthe company soon became one of the most important coin dealers in northern Germany and carried out numerous auctions until 1933, including the Karl Graf zu Inn- und Knyphausen collection from the provincial museum of Hanover (catalogs edited by Georg Pfanneberg). In 1921 he issued two porcelain coins of 25 and 50 pfennigs as emergency money . From 1927 to 1928 he published the magazine Collectors Friends. Journal for all collecting areas , from 1928 to 1930 the journal Hannoverscher Münzverkehr .

As a devout Jew, Seligmann was also involved in the Hanover Jewish Community . In 1904, for example, he was one of the founders of the Jewish Gymnastics Association in Hanover (since 1912, the United Gymnastics Association in Hanover ), initially as their gymnastics supervisor, and since 1908 chairman of the club. In 1922 Seligmann became a member of the school board of the community, and from 1932 onwards, as head of the Hanoverian charity , he was in charge of the burials at the Jewish cemeteries in Hanover.

Seligmann died on his 53rd birthday in 1933 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery An der Strangriede in Hanover, where he had already acquired a family grave in 1930. His widow Alma Seligmann continued to run the business with the support of Georg Pfanneberg . The company's activity as a Jewish company was made more and more difficult, and its license as state lottery revenue was withdrawn. Pfanneberg then probably took over the business in 1937.

Alma Seligmann married the Jewish banker Iwan Lichtenberg for the second time in 1935 and emigrated with him to New York in the spring of 1939 . Her removal goods remained in the port of Bremen and were confiscated in 1942. From this some books came into the possession of the State and University Library Bremen . In the course of researching books from Jewish property in the library, it was also possible to identify the books that Seligmann owned.

Auctions

  • October 16, 1911: coins a. Medals from various possessions a. A. Braunschweig-Lüneburg special collection [Georg Pfanneberg collection]; Double thaler collection of Privy Councilor L. (= Max Leeser ); Famous people
  • October 22, 1928 (with Felix Schlessinger, Berlin): Braunschweig coins and medals
  • Auction 4, March 25, 1929: George Pflümer Collection , Hameln a. A.
  • Auction 5, December 2, 1929: Collection President Köhler † u. AI gold coins, II. Special Collection of Saxony, III. Universal collection, IV. Bracteates, V. Westphalian copper coins
  • Auction 6, September 1, 1930: coins and medals of all times and countries; large numismatic library
  • Auction 7, November 24, 1930: Coins and medals cabinet of Count Karl zu Inn- und Knyphausen, part 1
  • Auction 8, February 23, 1931: Coins and medals cabinet of Count Karl zu Inn- und Knyphausen, part 2
  • Auction 9, April 13, 1931: coins and medals of all times and countries
  • Auction 10, June 1, 1931: Coins and medals cabinet of Count Karl zu Inn- und Knyphausen, part 3, and a numismatic library
  • Auction 11, September 7, 1931: Coins and medals cabinet of Count Karl zu Inn- und Knyphausen, part 4
  • Auction 12, May 9, 1932: Coins and medals of the late Mr. HS Rosenberg, part 1
  • Auction 13, September 12, 1932: 1. City coins - the greatest rarities, 2. Gold coins, 3. German and foreign coins and medals, 4. Orders and decorations, 5. Antique coins, 6. Remnants of the collection of the late Mr. HS Rosenberg , 7th numismatic library from the Rosenberg collection
  • Auction March 14, 20, 1933: coins and medals from various possessions

literature

  • Henry Seligmann. Coin dealership. 25 years 1905-1930 (= Hannoverscher Münzverkehr 3, 1930). Hanover 1930.
  • Helmut Zimmermann: Coin and Medal Collectors in the History of the Kestner Museum . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter NF 44, 1990, pp. 74-75.
  • Peter Schulze : Books in Bremen - Research in Hanover: a project with consequences. Seligmann's books . In: Maria Kühn-Ludewig (Ed.): Displaced books. Book return from two perspectives. Contributions and materials on the inventory history of German libraries in connection with the Nazi era and war. Hannover 1999, ISBN 3-931614-48-4 , pp. 73-79.
  • Peter Schulze: Searching for traces. Expropriated books as a historical source. In: Thomas Elsmann (Ed.): In the footsteps of the owners. Acquisition and return of books by Jewish owners using the example of Bremen [book for the exhibition "Seligmann's books. On the late return of the property of Jewish refugees from Hanover" from January 18 to March 18, 2005 in the State and University Library]. State and University Library, Bremen 2005, pp. 69–72.
  • Lorenz Peiffer, Henry Wahlig : Jews in Sport during National Socialism. A historical handbook for Lower Saxony and Bremen . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1083-4 , p. 395 ( full text ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Scheuch: Coins made of porcelain and clay from the State Porcelain Manufactory Meißen and other ceramic factories at home and abroad . 3rd edition, Biebertal 1971, No. 297-298; Illustrations .
personal data
SURNAME Seligmann, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German coin dealer
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Segeberg
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1933
Place of death Hanover