Hugo Erlanger

Hugo Erlanger (born April 16, 1881 in Augsburg ; † 1964 ) was a German commission agent for men's clothing and sporting goods.

Life

Thierschstrasse 41

During the First World War , Erlanger was a volunteer in the 1st Heavy Rider Regiment .

As a sales representative for textiles and travel supplies, at the end of October 1921 he acquired the house at Thierschstrasse 41 in the Lehel district of Munich , which was built in the neo-renaissance style in 1877/78 by Anna Schweyer, the widow of a coppersmith . His tenants included the Maria and Ernst Reichert family with their sub-tenants Adolf Hitler (since March 1920) and Dietrich Eckart (since his wife had shown him outside). In 1929 the subtenant Hitler moved into an apartment with a tiled bathroom on Prinzregentenplatz , where the Reicherts followed him.

After Erlanger went bankrupt during the global economic crisis and the Städtische Sparkasse could no longer pay the mortgage interest, the house was foreclosed in September 1934 and acquired by the city of Munich. He was to settle the default claim of 22,714  RM in installments of 50 RM. His rented apartment, which he had kept in the house, was terminated by the city of Munich soon afterwards because it did not want any Jews as tenants in city houses .

Erlanger was in the Dachau concentration camp for a month after the November pogrom in 1938 , but was released again as a participant in the war. Afterwards, his Catholic wife protected him.

After the war, the city refused to give the house back to him. It did not give in until 1949, but Erlanger had to take on all the debts and found himself in a difficult position. It only improved when he received a pension in 1955 in compensation for the loss of his business. The house at Thierschstrasse 41 was inherited by his second wife and son, who sold it to a master butcher the following year.

literature

• Wolfram Selig: Aryanization in Munich ; 2004; P. 101
• The reparation and compensation case , lecture by Hugo Erlanger in Munich
• Paul Hoser: Thierschstrasse 41. The subtenant Hitler, his Jewish landlord and a restitution problem. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 65 (2017), pp. 131–161.

Web links

• Directory of Jewish tradespeople registered by the police in Munich