Hermann Schülein

Hermann Schülein (born January 24, 1884 in Munich , † December 15, 1970 in New York ) was brewery director in Munich and New York.

Life

Hermann Schülein was born in 1884 as the second son of the Jewish brewery owner Joseph Schülein and Ida Baer.

In 1910 he wrote his doctoral thesis on “The legal form of cartels” at the law faculty in Erlangen. In 1911 he became director of the "Union Brewery Schülein & Cie" , his father's brewery. In 1913 he married Luise Fanny Levy. On January 5, 1921, he merged the company with Löwenbräu AG, whose chairman he became. In the following years, Schülein developed the Löwenbräu into Bavaria's largest brewery.

In November 1935 the Jew Schülein had to give up his post under pressure from the National Socialists. He left Germany on December 12, 1935 and fled to the USA via Switzerland.

In 1936 Hermann Schülein became Managing Director of the Liebmann Brewery in New York, known for the Rheingold brand . After the war, Schülein stayed in the USA, but maintained intensive personal and business contacts in Germany.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Title page of the doctoral thesis

literature

• Lilian Harlander: "Of the Munich beers, mostly only Löwenbräu comes into question". The Schülein family in the Munich brewing industry . In: Lilian Harlander, Bernhard Purin (ed.): Beer is the wine of this country. Jewish brewing stories , Volk Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86222-211-7 , pp. 139–189.
• Anne Munding: "What would you do if you were wronged by your fatherland?" Hermann Schülein's resistance to the Nazi policy of robbery. In: Lilian Harlander, Bernhard Purin (ed.): Beer is the wine of this country. Jewish brewing stories , Volk Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86222-211-7 , pp. 191-205.
• Münzel, Martin and Beate Schreiber. Hermann Schülein. In: Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present . Vol. 4, edited by Jeffrey Fear. German Historical Institute. Last modified June 19, 2014. Hermann Schülein.
• Hermann Wilhelm: The school kids. Ascension, dispossession and flight . Munich 2000, ISBN 3-8311-0214-7 .

Movie

Thomas Hausner: "Cheers and L'Chaim" . The Jewish Bavarian cultural history of beer brewing, the hops trade and the beer mug processing industry. First broadcast in Germany: November 7, 2016, Bavarian TV in the Bavarian Experience episode 28.