James Henschel
James Henschel (born February 5, 1863 in Hamburg , † August 26, 1939 in Holland ), actually Jeremias Henschel, was a German cinema pioneer and businessman from Hamburg.
Personal
James Henschel married Friderike Blumenthal from Lübeck in 1887 and had four daughters and a son with her.
The cinema empire
James Henschel was, depending on the presentation, the first or second operator of a pure cinema in Hamburg. B. was a pub. In December 1905 he opened the Helios Theater in Grosse Bergstrasse 11/15 in Altona . In January 1906, the Belle Alliance Theater followed in shoulder blade 115 with 1,400 seats. Almost every year he opened a new movie theater. In 1917 he took over the Passage Kino .
In 1918 the UFA approached Henschel and convinced him to sell his company and most of his cinemas to them. Henschel managed to get his sons-in-law Hermann Urich-Sass and Hugo Streit to work at UFA. In addition to the purchase price, he participated in the profits of the cinemas for 20 years. Henschel invested the purchase price in land and securities, so he survived the inflation well and was able to help his sons-in-law to found their company.
emigration
The National Socialist persecution of the Jews did not stop at James Henschel either. In order to be able to emigrate to his daughter Bianca Kahn in Holland, he was forced to sell all of his property and to pay taxes and duties for emigrants ( Reich flight tax , Jewish property tax ). As a result, he lost almost all of his fortune. After his death in 1939 the Gestapo initiated his expatriation .
List of James Henschel's cinemas
Cinema name - address - owned since
- Helios Theater - ( Große Bergstrasse 11/15, Altona) - 1905
- Belle-Alliance Theater - ( shoulder blade 115, Eimsbütteler Str. 1) - 1906
- Victoria Theater - (Hammerbrookstrasse 76) - 1906
- Palast Theater - (Hamburger Strasse 5/9) - 1907
- Waterloo Theater - ( Dammtorstrasse 14) - 1909
- Central Theater - ( Wandsbeker Chaussee 162) - 1911
- Kammer Lichtspiele - (Grindelallee 6/8) - 1913
- Harvestehuder Lichtspiele - (Eppendorfer Baum 15) - 1913
- Lessing Theater - ( Gänsemarkt 46/48) - 1913
- Passage Theater - ( Mönckebergstrasse 17) - 1917
In 1918 James Henschel sold all the cinemas. Except for the Waterloo and the Victoria, all of them passed into the possession of Ufa , which together with James Henschel founded J. Henschel GmbH for this purpose.
swell
- Files from the Hamburg State Archives
- Jörg Schöning: From the “living” to the “movie theater” . In: Volker Plagemann (ed.): Industrial culture in Hamburg. The German Empire's gateway to the world . Beck Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-406-09675-1 , pp. 320-323.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Land Register Hamburg Uhlenhorst Volume 4, Sheet 164, Landbuch 750.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henschel, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henschel, Jeremias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cinema pioneer and businessman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 1939 |
| Place of death | Holland |