Alsberg department store

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Retail stores were known under the name of Kaufhaus Alsberg in many cities in Germany, until the " Aryanization " under the National Socialists forced the Jewish owners to sell and the name Alsberg disappeared from the public eye.

history

The Alsberg family operated or built textile shops, textile department stores or department stores under various companies and with different ownership structures in different cities . In addition to start-ups, existing businesses were also added over the years - in some cases, marriages between sons and daughters of the owner families formed the basis of the business relationship.

The formally independent retail companies sold goods that could be offered inexpensively through central purchasing and a correspondingly organized distribution of goods. These central functions were performed by the wholesale company Gebr. Fried & Alsberg GmbH , which at the end of the 1920s was in a community of interests with the Alsberg-Eteg Group AG , both companies were based in Cologne.

The Alsberg-Eteg-Group AG emerged in 1928 from the Elberfelder Textil-Handels-AG , which was founded in Elberfeld in 1922 and has been based in Berlin since 1924. Various local Alsberg business owners were involved, some of whose names can be found on the management board and the supervisory board . The interest group had an annual turnover of 200 million Reichsmarks in 1928 , in 1930 it was in third place in retail in Germany with 200 million Reichsmark in 1929 after the department store companies Hermann Tietz and Rudolf Karstadt AG , only fourth (with 180 million Reichsmark) was followed by Leonhard Tietz AG .

Locations

The shops, department stores or department stores of the Alsberg Group included:

  • today's Opitz department store in Bielefeld
  • the Alsberg department store in Bochum, Hochstraße (today's Kortumstraße)
built 1914–1921, company Gebr. Alsberg AG Bochum , since 1935 operated by Kaufhaus Kortum AG ; today the Kortumhaus office and commercial building with various users
Company Gebr. Alsberg KG ; rebuilt around 1921, expanded 1929–1930; operated by Modehaus Möbius GmbH since September 1933 ; 1945 partially destroyed, ruin demolished in 1955
  • the Alsberg department store in Duisburg
The former employee Helmut Horten , 27 years old, was able to take over the Duisburg textile department store Alsberg from its Jewish owners Strauss and Lauter due to his good contacts with the National Socialists. His widow Heidi Horten is one of the richest Germans today and lives in Austria.
built 1911–1912, company Gebr. Fried & Alsberg oHG , since 1923: Gebr. Alsberg AG Gelsenkirchen , after 1933 Westphalia department store (WeKa) , today WEKA-Karrée (built 1912)
  • the Alsberg department store in Hagen , Elberfelder Strasse
built 1910–1911 based on a design by the architect Fritz Niebel ; Owner Wilhelm Leeser; later Neugebauer department store
Founded in 1928 by Karl Pless; New building 1928–1929; since 1933 Berger & Lindner
  • a department store in Neuss (new building 1928)
  • a department store in Oldenburg , Achternstraße 9 (merchants Siegfried Alsberg, Otto Fried and Karl Jakob Fried named as owners in 1900)
Today's Lengermann & Trieschmann department store in Osnabrück
Founded in 1910 by Max Katz, Gustav Falk and Ludwig Stern; since November 1935 Lengermann and Trieschmann
Taken over in February 1933 by Josef Weiser's textile retail company in Gelsenkirchen-Buer
Founded in 1888 by Moritz Wisbrun; Building today by Sinn Leffers used
Founded in 1928 by the owners Max Eichengrün and Max Blank through a business relationship with the Blank department store; 1938 through "Aryanization" to Otto Neumann and Dr. Cropp passed over
  • the department store Gebr. Alsberg successor in Wuppertal , Wall 36
later department store Koch, building demolished in 2014

Aryanization and persecution

Because of their Jewish religious affiliation, the Alsberg family was expropriated by the National Socialists in the course of " Aryanization ". The Gelsenkirchen department store (Gebr. Alsberg AG Gelsenkirchen) was transferred to Rings AG . The Bochum department store (Gebr. Alsberg AG Bochum) was converted into the 1935, while the house in Osnabrück was continued by the merchants Lengermann and Trieschmann .

The Gebr. Fried & Alsberg GmbH was in KMT Cologne fashion and textile wholesaler converted.

Initially, Alfred Alsberg was employed as managing director of the Bochum department store because his skills were needed. His father Siegfried Alsberg, who had started the family's department store operations, died in Cologne in 1936; Alfred Alsberg and his wife Martha were in October 1941 in the Lodz ghetto , his mother Emma in June 1942 to the Theresienstadt ghetto deported and murdered. Three children survived abroad.

literature

  • Handbook of German Stock Companies , 37th edition 1932, Badn IV, p. 5933. (Alsberg-Eteg-Group AG)
  • Jan Gerdemann: A department store group in the Ruhr area. The "Alsberg / Kortum department store" in Bochum. (Term paper for the first state examination, Ruhr University Bochum) Dortmund / Bochum 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Homberg: The cotton goods wholesaling with special consideration of the post-war development. Verlag H. Pöppinghaus, 1934, p. 75.
  2. ↑ Detlef Briesen: Department store, mass consumption and social morality. Campus Verlag, 2001, ISBN 9783593367309 .
  3. ↑ Information on Bielefeld
  4. ↑ Info 2 regarding Bielefeld
  5. ↑ Info regarding Detmold ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtdetmold.de
  6. ↑ Info regarding Helmut Horten
  7. ↑ Info regarding Duisburg ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  8. ↑ Art Nouveau & more in Hagen. (Brochure) Hagen 2010.
  9. ↑ Document regarding Hamm
  10. ↑ Info on Hildesheim (pdf; 54 kB)
  11. ^ Jewish life in Neuss . In: NGZ
  12. ↑ Source on Oldenburg
  13. ^ Tamar Avraham, Daniel Fraenkel: Osnabrück. In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen Volume 2. Göttingen 2005, p. 2010.
  14. ↑ a b Alsberg AG  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.philatelie-und-partektivenen.de  
  15. ↑ Info on Solingen ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ns-gedenkstaetten.de
  16. ↑ Info regarding Wattenscheid
  17. ↑ Klaus Goebel: Wuppertal in the time of National Socialism. 1984, p. 67
  18. ↑ http://www.wz-newsline.de/lokales/wuppertal/stadtteile/elberfeld-mitte-west/lösungen-von-koch-am-wall-1.1681214
  19. ↑ Johannes Ludwig: Boycott, expropriation, murder. Verlag Facta, 1989, ISBN 9783926827197 , page 160.