Hermann Schiftan

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Hermann Schiftan (born July 17, 1883 in Namslau ; † 1942 ) was a German lawyer , businessman (potato wholesaler), art collector and a victim of the Nazi government's political cleansing campaign in the summer of 1934, known as the Röhm Putsch .

Life and activity

Hermann Schiftan's curriculum vitae in his dissertation.

Schiftan was a son of the businessman Wilhelm Schiftan and his wife Justine, née Silber.

After attending the higher boys' school in Namslau and the grammar school in Ohlau , where he obtained his school-leaving certificate on September 22, 1902, Schiftan studied law and economics at the University of Breslau for six semesters . As a result of his father's illness, he had to interrupt his university visit to join his parents' potato wholesaler.

In October 1915, Schiftan was appointed to the advisory board of the administration department of the Reichskartoffelstelle , which during the First World War was responsible for ensuring that the population was supplied with potatoes, which became the main staple in Germany during the war.

In the winter semester of 1916 he resumed his studies and then attended five semesters of economics , philosophy and art history . In 1919 he was one of Adolf Weber supervised work on the pricing on the potato market at the University of Breslau for Dr. phil. doctorate ( Rigorosum on July 16, 1919).

In the 1920s and 1930s, Schiftan continued his father's potato wholesale business.

As a private person, Schiftan was on the board of the Jüdisches Museum e. V. to Breslau.

Hermann Schiftan was a well-known private art collector in Wroclaw from his studies until 1934. He regularly bought and sold glass art and cast iron art through advertisements and auctions. In 1929 he left a large collection of iron art castings to the Castle Museum in Wroclaw. His last recordable activity in Wroclaw was in 1934, but as late as 1936-1938 antiques were mentioned by him at auctions at Bonhams, Christies's and Sotheby's.

Bookplate by Hermann Schiftan

In the course of the Nazi government's political cleansing campaign in the summer of 1934, Schiftan was arrested by members of the SS along with several other prominent Jews in the Silesian region . Although he was severely ill-treated during his detention, which lasted for several days, unlike five other Jewish people, he escaped shooting. Nevertheless, in the summer of 1934 the incorrect statement spread in the international press that Schiftan was among the people killed in the course of the murder. For example, the Basler National-Zeitung of July 11th and the Pariser Tageblatt of July 12th, 1934 reported that Schiftan had been a victim of the great murder of June 30th and July 1st, 1934, as well as the supplementary statement in the Pariser Tageblatt of June 15th , 1934 July 1934 that Schiftan was a businessman.

Schiftan was finally deported to Eastern Europe in the course of the Shoah in 1942, together with numerous members of the Jewish community in Silesia , and put to death there.

When searching for Nazi-looted property in the holdings of the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart , a total of 14 island paperback books were found from Schiftan's private library, which were furnished with his bookplate.

Fonts

  • Potato Almanac from the potato wholesaler Wilhelm Schiftan . Wroclaw 1914.
  • Price formation on the potato market , dissertation Breslau 1919.
  • Osthilfe and the potato problem . In: German daily newspaper No. 552 of November 23, 1930.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sotheby's auction, February 1936.Retrieved March 25, 2019
  2. ↑ Bonhams auction, February 1938.Retrieved March 25, 2019
  3. ^ Pogroms in Silesia on June 30 , in: Pariser Tageblatt of July 12, 1934 ( digitized on the website of the German National Library )
  4. ^ Note in the Pariser Tageblatt of July 15, 1934 (digitized version on the website of the German National Library ).
  5. ↑ Schiftan's death is also reported in: White book about the shootings of June 30 , Paris 1934, p. 90; Otto Strasser: The German Night of Bartholomew , 1935, p. 239.
  6. ↑ A receipt is missing here.
  7. ↑ Hermann Schiftan bookplate
personal data
SURNAME Schiftan, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, businessman, art collector and victim of the Röhm putsch
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Namslau
DATE OF DEATH 1942