Julius Guggenheimer
Julius Guggenheimer (born February 18, 1885 in Memmingen , † June 4, 1943 in Sobibor ) was a German businessman and photographer. As Jews , he and his family were forced to emigrate in 1939. They settled in Amsterdam. From there, Julius and Regina Guggenheimer were first interned in the Westerbork transit camp and then deported to Sobibor, where they were murdered. The two children managed to escape to England.
Life
Julius Guggenheimer lived as the scion and heir of an established merchant family in Memmingen in Upper Swabia . On November 14, 1912, he married Regina Kornelie Metzger in Landau / Pfalz. He lived with her and their two children, Lotte-Lore and Fritz, at Kalchstrasse 8 in Memmingen. Even in Memmingen he was an enthusiastic and extremely ambitious amateur photographer. After emigrating to Amsterdam, he opened a photo studio there, “Guggs Photos”.
Commemoration
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On June 29, 2014, stumbling blocks were let in for Julius Guggenheimer and his wife in front of the house in Memmingen as a reminder. These were supplemented on September 12, 2015 by stumbling blocks for the two children.
An exhibition in the MEWO Kunsthalle in Memmingen made the photographic work public for the first time in 2016.
Recognitions
- 1934: Honorary member of the Association of Jewish Amateur Photographers Frankfurt a. M.
Collections / holdings
Works (photographs, negatives and drawings) by Julius Guggenheimer can be found in the following collections:
- MEWO art gallery Memmingen
- City archive Memmingen
- Nederlands Photo Museum Rotterdam
- Leiden University Library
- Ottobeuren Benedictine Abbey
- City Museum Munich
- Jewish Museum Berlin
- Nationaal Archief Den Haag / Collectie Spaarnestad
literature
- Axel Lapp, Christoph Engelhard, Nissan N. Perez: Julius Guggenheimer: Photographer . Ed .: MEWO Kunsthalle . Memmingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-9816274-3-5 .
Web links
- Stumbling blocks
- Nederlands Photo Museum Rotterdam
- Julius Guggenheimer. In: Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 . Federal Archives , accessed on October 13, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographies
- ^ Stolpersteine in Memmingen eV: The Julius and Regina Kornelie Guggenheimer family. (PDF) Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Stolpersteine in Memmingen eV: List of stones laid so far. (XLSX) Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
- ^ MEWO art gallery: Julius Guggenheimer: photographer. Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guggenheimer, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer and businessman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Memmingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4, 1943 |
| Place of death | Sobibor |