Jean Seligmann

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Jean Albert Seligmann (born June 15, 1903 in Paris , † December 15, 1941 in Mont-Valérien , Suresnes ) was a French art and antique dealer .

Jean A. Seligmann was the son of the art dealer Arnold Seligmann (1870–1932), who had immigrated from Frankfurt, who had separated from his brother Jacques Seligmann in 1912 and ran the art dealership "Arnold Seligmann & Cie." In the first Parisian district at 23 Place Vendôme . After the death of his father in 1932, Jean A. Seligmann took over this ("Jean A. Seligman & Cie.").

As announced by the Minister of Finance in May 1940, the gallery and its collection were confiscated by the "Foreign Exchange Protection Command" in July 1940 and sold in a public auction.

Members of the German Wehrmacht arrested the art dealer on March 29, 1941 on suspicion of espionage on his frequent business trips in the prewar period. He was imprisoned in the Cherche-Midi prison in Paris and shot on December 15, 1941 as a hostage in the fortress of Mont-Valérien in retaliation for attacks by the French resistance . The German death certificate stated the time of death for that day "around 10:10".

In view of the ordinance of January 16, 1941, the State Secretary for Industrial Production, Pierre Pucheu , placed the company under provisional management on the grounds that the management of A. Seligmann et Cie, antiquités was unable to carry out its duties. The state gazette of the French Republic reported in May 1942 that the art dealer Willy Remon had been appointed provisional administrator of the Seligmann gallery.

The Berlin branch of Arnold Seligmann & Co., GmbH, Antiquitäten, W 9, Bellevuestr 5 , established in 1932, was replaced by Paul Lindpaintner's art dealer at the same address in 1941 . At his request on September 27, 1941, Johannes Hinrichsen's Berlin art dealer was re-registered as a sole proprietorship with the changed address "Bellevuestraße 5" in the Berlin commercial register. From the received correspondence from May and April 1941 it emerged that the art dealer Lindpaintner was in Paris at the time of the sale.

Seligmann was married to Henriette Marie, née Cretegny (* 1904), since 1938. The family lived with their two children at 24 Rue Barbet-de-Jouy in Paris. The producer Guy Seligmann (born March 24, 1939) is their son.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le Temps, Paris, No. 28743. May 26, 1940, accessed July 25, 2017 .
  2. ^ Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg: Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume. Retrieved July 25, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Jean Dautry: Chronique de l'Antiracisme . In: La Pensée. Revue du rationalisme moderne No. 120, 1960, p. 110 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Journal officiel de la République française . Lois et décrets, April 24, 1941 ( digitized version ).
  5. ^ Journal officiel de la République française . Lois et décrets May 30, 1942, p. 1917 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Berlin address book: for the year ... 1932, accessed on July 23, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Berlin address book for the year ... 1941, accessed on July 23, 2017 .
  8. ^ Roswitha Juffinger, Gerhard Plasser: Salzburger Landessammlungen 1939–1955 . Salzburg 2007, p. 114-116 .
  9. ↑ Guy Seligmann on film-documentaire.fr.
personal data
SURNAME Seligmann, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seligmann, Jean Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art and antiques dealer
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1941
Place of death Mont-Valérien , Suresnes