Herbert Loebl

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Herbert Loebl OBE (born April 18, 1923 in Bamberg , Upper Franconia , Bavaria ; died January 28, 2013 in Newcastle upon Tyne , England ) was a German-British electrical engineer , company co-founder , historian , author and philanthropist . Through his entrepreneurial work, he was instrumental in the sustainable economic development of the north of England and its labor market. With his later historical work, he made a considerable contribution to research into Jewish life before the Holocaust in his native Bamberg.

family

Herbert Loebl's father Robert Löbl (3rd from left) with his three brothers Fritz, Salomon "Sali" and Leopold "Leo", 1915
Herbert Loebl (2nd from left), his two sisters Lili and Hanna on the far right, with their cousins, 1932
Factory premises of Hugo Löbl Söhne GmbH (logo: HLS, brand name: Hulorit ) in Bamberg, Lichtenhaidestr. 9, still preserved today on the corner of Hohmannstrasse

He was the only son of the Upper Franconian electrical engineer Robert Löbl (born October 15, 1892 in Bamberg; died on May 12, 1949 in Birmingham ) and his wife Marie nee Rosenfelder (born July 7, 1899 in Bamberg; died on August 2, 1996 in Newcastle upon Tyne). He had two sisters, Hanna (born October 27, 1926 in Bamberg; died April 25, 2009 there), later married Bud, and Lili (born 1930 in Bamberg).

His two grandmothers, Karoline "Lina" Löbl (born August 23, 1861 in Maroldsweisach , Lower Franconia ; died September 29, 1942 in the Minsk ghetto ), née Schloss, and Rosalie Rosenfelder (born April 5, 1875 in Bamberg; died after 18 May 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ), née Rödelheimer, were murdered during the Shoah .

His grandfathers Hugo Löbl (born August 19, 1857 in Saaz , Bohemia ; died February 18, 1929 in Bamberg) and Max Rosenfelder (born November 13, 1862 in Bamberg; died February 24, 1936 there) died of natural causes.

Hugo Löbl initially operated clothing stores in Bamberg, in Austraße 23 and in Street Obere Brücke 10 (today: No. 8), before he switched to operating electrical small-scale industry, Bamberg - Paris under the name Hugo Löbl with gas and soon to sell electric and battery-operated lights, telephones, lighters, doorbells and accessories such as light bulbs and batteries, from 1917 at Bamberger Luitpoldstraße 27 (today: Bahnhofstraße), where he had a multi-storey company building built in the courtyard of the property. Herbert Loebl's father Robert acted as an agent for the company in Paris from around 1911, where he stayed for training. From 1924 the manufacture of electrical products was separated from wholesaling and retailing and operated under Hugo Löbl Söhne GmbH (logo: HLS, brand name: Hulorit ). In 1928 a large factory building was built in Bamberg's industrial area at Lichtenhaidestrasse 9, which employed around 200 people in the early 1930s. Since the compulsory " Aryanization " in 1938, this company in Lindner u. Co. (later: Lindner Licht GmbH ), while the wholesale and retail trade was taken over by the local competitor Gustav Zenetti, both companies far below their value.

Herbert Loebl married Annalisa "Anne" (1931–2013), née Wertheimer , who came from Prague . From this marriage there were three children. His wife was a daughter of the lawyer Jan Hans Wertheimer (born August 20, 1894 in Smirschitz , Austria-Hungary ; died after September 6, 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ) and his wife Helena "Hella" (born January 9, 1898 in Teplitz-Schönau , Bohemia; died after September 6, 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp), née Fanta.

The original family name Löbl was adapted in different ways by the individual family members to the respective language usage after emigration, to "Loebl", to "Lobl", to "Loble", "Loebel" and "Loval".

School, training and study

He attended elementary school and the New Humanist High School in his hometown until he emigrated to England at the end of 1938 at the age of 15. In Dover , Kent , he attended Dover Grammar School . In the following year, his parents emigrated to England with his younger sisters, so that the family was together again. As of July 1939, as in Bamberg, he again worked as an apprentice in the electrical engineering company Loblite Electric Ltd. his father and his uncle Fritz Siegfried (born April 8, 1886 in Bamberg; died on November 22, 1956 there) in Team Valley near Gateshead . His father Robert and his uncle had already run such a factory in Bamberg. In Gosforth , the father bought a house for his family. After the beginning of the Second World War , Herbert Loebl's training was interrupted by his internment as an enemy alien at the Hutchinson Internment Camp on the Isle of Man from May to November 1940. From 1943 to 1945 he worked as a toolmaker at Wolfe's Tools . In 1949, at the age of 26, he graduated as an electrical engineer (Bachelor of Science, B.Sc.) from King's College in Newcastle . His father died three weeks earlier at the age of 56.

At the age of 55, he completed further studies in the 1970s and 1980s in 1978 as a Master of Philosophy (Magister Philosophiae) with his Master's thesis on Government-financed factories and the establishment of industries by refugees in the special area of ​​the North of England from 1937–1961 at Durham University and received his Ph.D. at the age of 62 in 1985. (Philosophiae Doctor) from Newcastle University .

Act

After completing his first degree, he initially worked for 18 months at A. Reyrolle & Company as a technical draftsman because his uncle Fritz Siegfried Löbl, the co-owner of his father's company, did not accept him professionally. During his studies he had met his fellow student Robert Joyce, with whom he entered into a business partnership for electronic scientific apparatus from May 1950 on which was based on an initial capital of only £ 200 . The company started under the arch of a railway bridge and later moved to a former school building before a regular production hall was built.

The joint venture Joyce, Loebl & Company exported more than 70 percent of its products. When it was finally sold to a US company in 1960, Joyce, Loebl & Company employed around 500 people. It is estimated that this company has created around 45 other companies in the region. The outstanding product developments include the microdensitometer and the MecoLab , a system for blood analysis.

After the company was sold, Loebl remained on the company's supervisory board for another four years. From 1964 he ran a consultancy practice until he decided in the mid-1970s to put his scientific training on a broader basis. He started a master's degree , which he completed in 1978. In 1985 he received his PhD from Newcastle University . He then devoted himself to researching the history of the Jews in his hometown Bamberg and his own Upper Franconian family history. He said that as an archivist he would have been happy too.

Gravestone of Herbert Loebl in Newcastle upon Tyne, November 2019

In 1973 he was awarded the title of Officer of the Most Noble Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the British export industry . In 1996 he was honored with the rarely awarded Citizen's Medal in his native Bamberg , and in the following year he received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from Federal President Roman Herzog . In 2001 he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit by the Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber . In 2003 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne .

Herbert Loebl died at the age of 89 and was buried in the Jewish section of the Byker and Heaton Municipal Cemetery in Newcastle upon Tyne.

“With Herbert Loebl we are losing a great personality who has done valuable research and information work on the history of the Jews in Bamberg. Above all, however, after his own painful experiences, he has made great contributions to the reconciliation between Jews and non-Jewish Germans. "

- Andreas Starke , Lord Mayor of Bamberg, 2013

Herbert Loebl's estate, including in particular his research on the former Jewish community in Bamberg, is in the Bamberg City Archives and in the Leo Baeck Institute (LBI).

Publications (selection)

  • Government-financed factories and the establishment of industries by refugees in the special area of ​​the North of England 1937–1961 . Master's thesis, Durham University, Durham 1978. OCLC 1071154081
  • Refugees from the Third Reich and Industry in the Depressed Areas in Britain . In: Werner E. Mosse, Julius Carlebach et al .: Second Chance - Two centuries of German-speaking Jews in the United Kingdom (= series of scientific papers by the Leo Baeck Institute, No. 48). JCB Mohr / Paul Siebeck, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 3-1614-5741-2 , pp. 379-403.
  • Refugee Industries in the Special Areas of Britain . In: Gerhard Hirschfeld, John P. Fox, Nikolaus Creutzfeld, Gisela Riff et al .: Exile in Great Britain , pp. 219–249. German editions: Exile in Great Britain - On emigration from National Socialist Germany (= publications of the German Historical Institute in London, vol. 14). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1983. OCLC 644309124 and Offprint: Refugee companies in the economic crisis areas of Great Britain . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1983. OCLC 971002428
  • with Rainer Pape: Lines of development of technical communication - electrophoretic color image recording with high image quality (= research report of the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology, Technological Research and Development, T. 83-319). Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Fachinformationszentrum Energie, Physik, Mathematik, 1983. OCLC 257149809
  • Government-financed factories in the North East of England in the context of the evolution of regional policy 1934-48 . Ph. D. Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1985. OCLC 13549104
  • Letter from Bamberg . Periodical, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1986-2003. OCLC 633077265
  • The Holocaust - 1800 Years in the Making. Exemplified since approx. 1030 by the Experience of the Jewish Community of Bamberg in Franconia. A course of 9 lectures . Department of Religious Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Winter Term 1989. Self-published, Newcastle upon Tyne 1989. OCLC 630421121 Does not include: Chapter IV The Bamberg Families of Burgkunstadt and Mitwitz , unfinished, unpublished, 80 pages incl. Title page.
  • Government Factories and the Origins of British Regional Policy, 1934-1984. Including a Case Study of North Eastern Trading Estates Ltd. Aldershot, Avebury 1988, ISBN 0-5660-5343-8 .
  • The Refugee Industries Committee. A little known British aid organization . In: Thomas Koebner, Wulf Köpke, Claus-Dieter Krohn: Political Aspects of Exile (= Exile Research, Volume 8). Text + criticism, Munich 1990. ISBN 3-8837-7366-2 .
  • The dispute over the "protection of Jews" in the Prince Diocese of Bamberg . Reprint from: 128th Report of the Historisches Verein Bamberg , Bamberg 1992. OCLC 234111111
  • Jews in Bamberg - The Decades Before the Holocaust . Verlag Fränkischer Tag, Bamberg 2000. ISBN 978-3-9286-4848-6 .
  • Outsider In - Memoirs of Business and Public Work in the North-East of England 1951-1984 . Fen Drayton, Newcastle upon Tyne 2001. OCLC 635097259
  • Portraits and group photos of Jews from Bamberg in the publications by Herbert Löbl , o. V., o. O., approx. 2003. OCLC 634539114
  • A Coat Too Long - An Illustrated Autobiography . Fen Drayton, Newcastle upon Tyne 2005. OCLC 914390912
  • with Nikolai Czugunow-Schmitt: Commemorations for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2005 and 2006 . Willy Aron Society, Bamberg 2007. OCLC 246666394

Herbert Loebl Export Academy

A generous donation from Herbert Loebl to Newcastle University was used to establish a department of the business school named after him that focuses on export.

Honors

Video

literature

  • Norbert J. Haas: Pictures of Bamberg Jews in the publication "Jews in Bamberg" by Herbert Löbl . N / A, 2005. OCLC 634365448
  • Werner M. Loval: We Were Europeans: A Personal History of a Turbulent Century . Gefen Publishing House Ltd., Jerusalem u. New York City 2010, ISBN 978-9-6522-9522-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Herbert Loebl . In: The Telegraph , at: telegraph.co.uk
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Claude P. Bamberger : History of a Family - The Bambergers of Mitwitz and Lichtenfels 1770-1992 . Self-published, Tenafly, New Jersey, USA, 1993, p. 56.
  3. ^ Werner M. Loval: We Were Europeans: A Personal History of a Turbulent Century . Gefen Publishing House Ltd., Jerusalem u. New York City 2010, ISBN 978-9-6522-9522-4 , pp. 40, 42, 55.
  4. ↑ Lili Loebl: Don't Ask Me Where I come From - How a refugee from Nazi Germany became a UN correspondent . The Book Guild Publishing, Leicester, UK, 2011, ISBN 978-1-8462-4633-3 .
  5. ^ Werner M. Loval: We Were Europeans - A Personal History of a Turbulent Century . Gefen Publishing House Ltd., Jerusalem u. New York City 2010, ISBN 978-9-6522-9522-4 , p. 11.
  6. ↑ Stolpersteine ​​- forms of memory (PDF file; 15.4 megabytes), pp. 3–8, on: kulturwerkstatt-bamberg.de
  7. ↑ Loebl, Karoline Lina Caroline . In: Memorial book victims of the persecution of Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933-1945 , on: bundesarchiv.de
  8. ↑ Karoline Lina Loebl , on: yadvashem.org
  9. ↑ Rosenfelder, Rosalie . In: Memorial book victims of the persecution of Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933-1945 , on: bundesarchiv.de
  10. ↑ Rosalie Rosenfelder , on: yadvashem.org
  11. ^ Werner M. Loval: We Were Europeans: A Personal History of a Turbulent Century . Gefen Publishing House Ltd., Jerusalem u. New York City 2010, ISBN 978-9-6522-9522-4 , p. 10.
  12. ↑ Logo HLS of Hugo Löbl Söhne GmbH, Bamberg , on: designretter.de
  13. ^ Postage stamps Elektrotechnische Fabrik Hugo Löbl Söhne GmbH , January 15, 1936, at: briefmarkenverein-bamberg.de
  14. ^ Werner M. Loval: We Were Europeans: A Personal History of a Turbulent Century . Gefen Publishing House Ltd., Jerusalem u. New York City 2010, ISBN 978-9-6522-9522-4 , pp. 12-22.
  15. ↑ Hugo Löbl's advertising brands, on: jmberlin.de
  16. ↑ a b c d e f Herbert Loebl, entrepreneur, exporting expert and co-founder of Joyce, Loebl & Company . In: The Journal, May 14, 2012 at: thejournal.co.uk
  17. ^ The electrical industry , on: juden-in-bamberg.de
  18. ↑ Jan Wertheimer . In: Terezinska Pametni Kniha [Theresienstadt Memorial Book], Terezinska Iniciativa, Vol. I-II. Melantrich, Praha 1995, Vol. III Academia Verlag, Praha 2000. Quoted from: Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, on: yadvashem.org
  19. ↑ Helena Wertheimerova , on: yadvashem.org
  20. ↑ a b c d e Profile of Herbert Loebl . In: Newcastle University Business School, on: ncl.ac.uk
  21. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Tributes paid to Gosforth entrepreneur Dr Herbert Loebl . In: The Journal , June 25, 2013 at: thejournal.co.uk
  22. ↑ Elektrotechnische Fabrik Hugo Löbl Söhne GmbH , on: plugsocketmuseum.nl
  23. ^ Rachel Pistol, Internment during the Second World War - A Comparative Study of Great Britain and the USA . Bloomsbury Publishing, London, Oxford et al. 2017, ISBN 978-1-3500-0142-8 , p. 154.
  24. ↑ Loebl, Herbert (1978) Government-financed factories and the establishment of industries by refugees in the special area of ​​the North of England 1937–1961 . Master's thesis, Durham University , at: dur.ac.uk
  25. ^ North East International Trade Breakfast , at: insidermedia.com
  26. ↑ Joyce Loebl Magiscan image analyzer , on: grelf.net
  27. ^ Another baby for father of Northern business . In: The Journal , February 25, 2010 at: thejournal.co.uk
  28. ^ Werner M. Loval: We Were Europeans: A Personal History of a Turbulent Century . Gefen Publishing House Ltd., Jerusalem u. New York City 2010, ISBN 978-9-6522-9522-4 , p. 95.
  29. ^ Mourning for Dr. Herbert Loebl , on: bamberger-onlinezeitung.de
  30. ↑ Stadtarchiv Bamberg, signature D 2063 Loebl, Herbert , on: archivbamberg.faust-iserver.de
  31. ↑ Guide to the Herbert Loebl Collection , signature AR 6353. In: Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History , New York City, on: cjh.org
  32. ^ Jews in England Collection 1936-1978 (incl. Herbert Loebl, Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars). In: Leo Baeck Institute London. OCLC 1018092534
  33. ↑ Herbert Loebl Export Academy , on: ncl.ac.uk
  34. ↑ Honorary member Dr. Herbert Loebl, sel. A. (sel. A. = blessed memory), on: lehrhaus-bamberg.de
  35. ↑ A lifetime achievement for Dr Loebl in boosting our economy . In: The Journal , August 17, 2011 at: thejournal.co.uk
  36. ↑ Herbert Loebl . In: Newcastle University Business School, on: ncl.ak.uk
personal data
SURNAME Loebl, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British entrepreneur, company founder, historian and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg , Upper Franconia , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2013
Place of death Newcastle upon Tyne , England