Kurt Oppenheim

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Kurt Oppenheim (born September 25, 1886 in Berlin , † November 18, 1947 in Moosseedorf near Bern ) was a German entrepreneur, manager and chemist who was part of the IG Farben board at times .

Life

Oppenheim was the son of Franz Oppenheim , the CEO of Agfa , and belongs to the Königsberg and Berlin Oppenheim families . He studied chemistry in Lausanne, Freiburg im Breisgau and Kiel, where he received his doctorate in 1911 under Carl Dietrich Harries . In 1912 he worked in an Agfa factory in St. Fons near Lyon, in 1913 he traveled to Japan for Agfa. During the First World War he was on the board of a company founded by the chemical industry to manage chemicals essential for the war effort and headed the company Protol, which produced glycerine by fermenting sugar.

From 1919 Oppenheim was a deputy and from 1924 a full member of the Management Board of Agfa. In 1925, together with H. Seebohm, he was head of an Agfa subsidiary, the Griesheim-Elektron chemical factory in Frankfurt / Main. When Agfa was absorbed by IG Farben in 1926 , Oppenheim was promoted to the IG Farben board. He headed the sales of photographic materials, rayon and fragrances and switched to the supervisory board in 1931/32. He suffered from the consequences of a car accident in 1929 with a fractured skull and was forced to withdraw from IG Farben. Oppenheim had a photo business in Switzerland, but was still involved in the German rayon industry, which was suffering from the depression. He died in a car accident.

In 1914 he married Margarete Seidel (1892–1972), the daughter of Paul Seidel , director of the Hohenzollern Museum in Berlin. With her he had two daughters and a son.

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SURNAME Oppenheim, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, manager and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1947
Place of death Moosseedorf near Bern