Hugo Cassirer

Hugo Cassirer (born December 25, 1869 in Breslau , † July 9, 1920 in Berlin ) was a German entrepreneur.

life and work

Cassirer came from the Cassirer family and was the son of the entrepreneur Louis Cassirer and his wife Emilie (née Schiffer). His brothers were Richard , Paul and Alfred Cassirer , and he had two sisters, Else and Margaret. He studied chemistry in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1892 with the dissertation Contributions to the knowledge of orthocyanobenzyl chloride, along with an appendix on some derivatives of orthonitrobenzyl chloride . Cassirer founded the Kabelwerke Dr. with his brother Alfred Cassirer and his uncle Julius Cassirer. Cassirer & Co. and gained practical experience in the cable factory of his uncle Otto Bondy in Vienna. He completed his knowledge of rubber manufacturing through an internship in England. His factory was a supplier for the electrical industry in Berlin and other German locations. Before the Second World War, the company was also an international leader in the industry. It was expropriated by the National Socialists. and taken over by Siemens .

Cassirer was the brother of the neurologist Richard Cassirer and the art dealer Paul Cassirer . Cassirer was an art collector himself. In 1919 he was a member of the Board of Trustees for the Reconstruction of German Economic Life. This supported the DDP and other bourgeois parties during the election campaign for the National Assembly .

Hugo Cassirer died in Berlin in 1920 at the age of 50. He was buried in a hereditary funeral in the Jewish cemetery at Schönhauser Allee . The tomb has been preserved.

The sons Reinhold and Stephan Walter Cassirer emerged from the marriage with Charlotte (Lotte) Jacobi. His son Reinhold Cassirer (1908–2001) was a gallery owner and married to Nadine Gordimer , a Nobel Prize winner for literature . During the National Socialist era, he managed to smuggle his father's art collection into the Netherlands. Gordimer dedicated the short story Face from Atlantis to her husband's family in 1956 . Their son also bears the name Hugo Cassirer.

The cable factory in Berlin-Hakenfelde in the Spandau district, designed by architect Hans Poelzig 1928–29 and named after Hugo Cassirer, is now a listed building.

In Berlin-Hakenfelde, Hugo-Cassirer-Strasse at the location of the former cable factory is named after him.

See also

Kabelwerk Dr. Cassirer und Co.AG (in the list of cultural monuments in Berlin-Hakenfelde)

literature

• Christian Kennert: The entrepreneur Hugo Cassirer. A contribution to Berlin's economic history . In: Christian Kennert (Ed.): The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin , Vol. 56 (2007), pp. 123–150, ISSN  0522-0033 .

Web links

• Hugo-Cassirer-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ genealogy.metastudies.net ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Contributions to the knowledge of Orthocyanbenzylchlorids, together with an appendix about some derivatives of Orthonitrobenzylchlorids
3. ↑ Speech by Nadine Gordimer at the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg on May 20, 1998 (English)
4. ↑ Julia Encke: I am not brave . In: faz.net , September 7, 2008
5. ↑ Christof Biggeleben: The "bulwark of the bourgeoisie". The Berlin merchants 1870–1920 . Munich 2000, p. 402
6. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 351.
7. ↑ Genealogy.net ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ^ Scion of a famous Jewish family from Berlin - On the death of the gallery owner Reinhold Cassirer In: Die Welt online from November 3, 2001
9. ↑ Nadine Gordimer ( Memento of the original of April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at literature.britishcouncil.org (English) 
10. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
11. ^ Hugo-Cassirer-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )