Joseph Schloßmann

Joseph Schloßmann (born April 17, 1860 in Wiesenfeld ; died January 4, 1943 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ) was a German merchant.

Life

Stumbling block for Joseph Schloßmann in Claudiusstrasse 5 in Berlin-Hansaviertel

Joseph Schloßmann was the son of the owner of a leather goods shop in Lohr am Main . In 1882 he went to Landshut as a clothes dealer and from 1886 to 1898 to the USA , where he worked as a businessman in various companies. After his return to Germany he lived with his wife Minna geb. Baruch (died 1926), with whom he had five children, in Berlin. Joseph Schloßmann kept in touch with Lohr and supported people in need there financially. For his social commitment, he received honorary citizenship of the city of Lohr in 1930. A day later, a memorial plaque was unveiled at the house where he was born in Wiesenfeld . The street in front of the house where he was born, today Schlossmannsgasse 5, was named in his honor.

He was stripped of his honorary citizenship in 1934 by the National Socialists. In 1941 he had to vacate his apartment in Berlin and move into the “ Judenhaus ” on Bamberger Strasse. In mid-August 1942 he was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on a transport for the elderly, where he died on January 4, 1943 at the age of 82. His five children fled Germany around 1933 and started families in the USA, Sweden, Canada, England and South Africa.

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online edition ).

Web links

Commons : Joseph Schloßmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Stumbling stone for Joseph Schloßmann from Lohr in Berlin in Main-Post on July 5, 2013
• Stumbling blocks in Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved April 3, 2016.