Julius Gumpel

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Only a few years after this admission, persecuted, expropriated , deported to the extermination camps , kidnapped and murdered: “Kommerzienrat Julius Gumpel”;
Drawing by August Heitmüller , around 1929

Julius Gumpel (born December 27, 1865 in Lindhorst ; died at the end of September 1942 in the Treblinka extermination camp ) was a German business leader, councilor , banker and entrepreneur in the potash industry .

Life

Julius Gumpel was a member of the Gumpel family from Lindhorst . He completed an apprenticeship as a merchant in Harburg and then joined the Lindhorster trading company ZH Gumpel, which his father founded in 1820 . In 1889 he became a co-owner of the company and moved it together with his brothers Max Gumpel and Hermann Gumpel to Hanover in the late founding period of the German Empire in 1894 , where the three of them expanded the company under the name Bankhaus ZH Gumpel into a modern banking house.

Together with his older brother Hermann, Julius Gumpel got involved in the potash industry in the Hanover area, which was still in its infancy at the time, and founded the later Gumpel potash group .

Julius Gumpel was a member of the board of several mines and also had numerous mandates as a supervisory board in industry . He was also a member of the district committee of the Reichsbank headquarters in Hanover and chairman of the supervisory board of the mechanical weaving mill in Linden . In addition to managing the Gumpel concern, the business leader also managed other potash companies. In addition, he held many leading positions in the sugar, iron and electrical industries and in some cases worked in large areas of the then German Empire. For these activities he was soon awarded the honorary title of Commerzienrat .

Gumpel's son Kurt was born in 1896 .

Before the outbreak of the First World War , Gumpel had a villa built by the architect Fritz Torno in Hanover's Zoo district between 1913 and 1914 . It was located at (today's) Zeppelinstrasse 6 at the corner of Lüerstrasse . The building has not been preserved.

After the family business ZH Gumpel had taken over the Ephraim Meyer & Sohn bank during the Weimar Republic in 1925 , Julius Gumpel initially became a co-owner of the former Meyer's company in May 1926, left his family's main company in 1928 and instead took over the management of the one he had taken over Bank.

Gumpel was a member of the committee of various sponsors of the Encyclopaedia Judaica , which appeared in Berlin from 1928 .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, Julius Gumpel lost all of his fortune through persecution and expropriation . In the middle of World War II , he was first deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942 and then deported to Treblinka, where he was killed at the end of September of the same year.

literature

  • Siegmund Kaznelson (ed.): Jews in the German cultural area. A compilation , 2nd, greatly expanded edition, Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag, 1959, p. 755.
  • Erika Thiemann: Hermann and Julius Gumpel. In: Life and Destiny. For the inauguration of the synagogue in Hanover , with photos by Hermann Friedrich a. a., Hrsg .: Landeshauptstadt Hannover, press office, in cooperation with the Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover eV, Hannover: [Beeck in commission], [1963], pp. 110–115.
  • John F. Oppenheimer (editor-in-chief), Emanuel BinGorion (Mithrsg.): Lexikon des Judentums , in the library series of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels eV , Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1967, column 263
  • Ernst Gottfried Lowenthal : Jews in Prussia. Biographical directory. A representative cross-section , publisher: Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz , Berlin: Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 1981, p. 81.
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 131.
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Potash economy / potash industry. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 334.
  • Ingo Köhler : Keyword Gumpel. In: The "Aryanization" of private banks in the Third Reich. Repression, elimination and the question of reparation (= series of publications on the journal for corporate history , vol. 14), also dissertation 203 at the University of Bochum, Munich: Beck, 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-53200-9 , passim ; mostly online via Google books

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gumpel, Julius in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Peter Schulze: Gumpel, (2) Julius. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 48
  3. ↑ a b c d e f N.N. : Councilor of Commerce Julius Gumpel. In: August Heitmüller (drawings): Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature. (August Heitmüller drew the heads. Wilhelm Metzig designed the entire equipment of the plant.), Vol. 1, Verlag H. Osterwald, Hanover 1929, without consecutive page numbering
  4. ↑ Peter Schulze : Gumpel, (2) Julius. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 242
  5. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Hugo Thielen : The brothers Hermann and Julius Gumpel , in this .: Jewish personalities in Hanover's history , completely revised, expanded and updated new edition, Hanover: Lutherisches Verlagshaus, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7859-1163- 1 , p. 99f.
  6. ↑ Werner Röder , Herbert A. Strauss , Dieter Marc Schneider, Louise Forsyth, Jan Foitzik et al. Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933 (= International biographical dictionary of Central European émigrés 1933 - 1945 ), ed. from the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, and from the Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration, Inc., New York, Vol. 1: Politics, Economy, Public Life , Munich: Saur, 1980, ISBN 0-89664-101-5 , p 253f .; online through google books
  7. ↑ Reinhard Glaß: Torno, Fritz A on the website of the architects and artists database with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) in the version dated February 25, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Gumpel, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business leader, councilor, banker and entrepreneur in the potash industry
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindhorst
DATE OF DEATH September 1942
Place of death Treblinka extermination camp