Joseph Schülein

Grave of Josef Schülein in the New Israelite Cemetery in Munich

Joseph Schülein (born March 31, 1854 in Thalmässing ; † September 9, 1938 at Kaltenberg Castle , community of Geltendorf ) was a German brewery owner and philanthropist .

Life

The son of a Franconian family initially worked as a banker in Munich, before he and his brother Julius bought the bankrupt brewery "Fügerbräu" in the Äußere Wiener Straße in Haidhausen , today's Einsteinstraße , and the " Unionsbrauerei Schülein & Cie. " founded. The rapidly growing company was converted into a stock corporation in 1903 . With the takeover of the Münchner-Kindl-Brauerei in 1905, many inns came into the possession of the company. a. the 6000-seat Münchner-Kindl-Keller in Haidhausen. In January 1921, the joint stock breweries Unionsbräu and Löwenbräu merged with retroactive effect to October 1, 1919. Schülein's son Hermann Schülein played a decisive role in the merger and from 1924 was general director of the new company, which operated under the better-known name Löwenbräu . At the end of 1921 there was a merger with the Bürgerliches Brauhaus München .

Towards the end of the First World War , Schülein acquired Kaltenberg Castle with the brewery, agricultural property and peat cutting in Emming founded in 1870 , which he and his youngest son Dr. Fritz Schülein operated.

"Mälzerbub" at the Schüleinbrunnen in Berg am Laim

Schülein made it possible to build a settlement with social housing on today's Schüleinplatz in Berg am Laim through property foundations . His diverse social commitment also included the annual sponsorship for 30 to 40 confirmers, whom he had newly dressed and entertained.

Schülein was married to Ida Baer († 1929), with whom he had six children. In 1902, the family moved into a representative of Leonhard Romeis built residential building in the Richard-Wagner-Straße 7 . Schülein later gave his daughter Elsa another piece of land in the same street as a dowry, thereby enabling his son-in-law, the surgeon Alfred Haas , to build a private clinic at number 19.

As a Jew, he came into the line of fire of German anti-Semitism , and people were hounded against his “Jewish beer”. Schülein gave up his position on the board of directors at Löwenbräu in 1933 and retired to his Kaltenberg estate, where he died on September 9, 1938. He was buried in the New Israelite Cemetery in the north of Munich.

Five of his children had already emigrated with their families in 1938, including his son Hermann, who had become a manager at the Liebmann Breweries in New York in the USA .

The youngest son Fritz was arrested on the evening of the Reichspogromnacht in Kaltenberg and was able to flee to the USA after “ protective custody ” in the Dachau concentration camp. The Kaltenberg family estate was “Aryanized” and only returned in 1949.

The most famous portrait of Schülein comes from Leo Samberger .

Honors

In Berg am Laim a small street and a square (on which the Schüleinbrunnen donated in 1928 stands) was named after Schülein. Schüleinstrasse and Schüleinplatz were renamed by the Nazi rulers as Halserspitzstrasse and -platz. On August 7, 1945, it was again named after Schülein.

literature

• Lilian Harlander: "Of the Munich beers, mostly only Löwenbräu comes into question" . The Schülein family in the Munich brewing industry. In: Lilian Harlander, Bernhard Purin (Hrsg.): Beer is the wine of this country. Jewish brewing stories , Volk Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86222-211-7 , pp. 139–189.
• Alexander Kluy: Jewish Munich. Mandelbaum, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-385476-314-7 .
• Jutta Ostendorf: The Richard-Wagner-Strasse in Munich. The houses and their stories. Volk, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-937200-37-1 .

Web links

• Calendar sheet of the Berg-am-Laim-Calendar 1998 with the title Joseph Schülein ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Rolf Hofmann, THE LIEBMANN BREWERY IN NEW YORK alemannia-judaica (PDF; 125 kB)

Movie

• ARD Prost and L'Chaim , November 7, 2016, 8:15 p.m., 44 min., From 9 min., Accessed on November 12, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes Mayer: The Savior of Löwenbräu - Joseph Schülein was the "King of Haidhausen" - 150th birthday. Online edition of Münchner Merkur from March 30, 2004. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Miriam Magall: Die Bierbrauer Schülein. In: How good are your tents, Jakob! Walks in Jewish Munich . MünchenVerlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-937090-29-0 , p. 76 ff.
3. ↑ According to other sources, the foundation took place in 1885. See z. E.g .: ( page no longer available , search in web archives: our story )
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Kluy: Jewish Munich. 2009, p. 163.
5. ↑ [1] on muenchen.de. The official city portal . Retrieved August 20, 2018.
6. ^ Kluy: Jewish Munich. 2009, p. 165.
7. ^ ^{A b c d e} Ostendorf: The Richard-Wagner-Strasse in Munich. 2007, p. 90.
8. ^ Ostendorf: Richard-Wagner-Strasse in Munich. 2007, p. 96.
9. ↑ The architect Max Neumann built the house for Haas. Alfred Haas emigrated in 1937. For Haas see Linda Lucia Damskis: Zerrissene Biografien: Jewish Doctors Between National Socialist Persecution, Emigration and Reparation. Munich: Allitera-Verlag 2009. ISBN 978-3-86906-053-8
10. ↑ on the Liebmann brewery founded in 1883 see en: Rheingold Beer
11. ↑ H. Peter Sinclair: From Siegel to Sinclair: A Jewish family history of our time rijo
12. ↑ "During the Third Reich, the schoolchildren fled to America, but came back in 1948 and laid claim to their property." Description of the events in 2010 on the homepage of the koenig-ludwig-brewery ( Memento from February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
13. ↑ Christl Knauer-Nothaft, Erich Kasberger: Berg am Laim, from the beginnings of the settlement to the modern part of Munich. Volk, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-937200-16-3 , p. 386.