Löbel Schottländer

Grave slab of Löbel and Henriette Schottländer

Löbel (Johann Leib) Schottländer (* May 16, 1809 ; † April 3, 1880 ) was a German entrepreneur and patron .

Life

In 1793, for the first time since the Middle Ages, Jews were allowed to move into the Silesian Münsterberg . In 1803 the optician Israel Ben David Schottländer moved with his wife Bertha, b. Apt, in the place. Three years after the son Johann Leib was born, the father received Prussian citizenship and stated that he wanted to keep the name Schottländer as the family name, which indicated that his ancestors came from the suburbs of Scotland near Danzig . Löbel Schottländer lost his mother at an early age and suffered from the stepmother who then came into the house.

Löbel Schottländer became a businessman and farmer and married the businessman's daughter Henriette Grossmann in Münsterberg in 1834. The eldest son Julius was born in 1835, and their daughter Auguste followed in 1836. Salo Schottländer was born in 1844 . In total, the Scottish couple had three sons and seven daughters, four of whom died early. Due to the experiences with his own stepmother, Löbel Schottländer forbade his widowed sons-in-law to remarry in the interests of their grandchildren. On the other hand, his son Julius, who lost his first wife at an early age, was able to persuade his father to let him enter into a second marriage.

Towards the end of the 1840s, Löbel Schottländer bought the so-called “Stadtschlössl” in Münsterberg as a family seat. The building later housed the district office . Around 1860 he moved with his family to Breslau , where his son Julius was already living as a mill owner. Löbel Schottländer let his younger sons administer his lands. He set up the Silesian cement factory in Opole , bought brickworks , was involved in the Oderschifffahrt and acquired numerous properties. In 1864 and 1866 he supplied the Prussian army, which was fighting against the Austrians, with cattle, grain and schnapps. He was also an army supplier in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71.

Fake Mineral Water Warning in the United States

Löbel Schottländer visited the spa town of Karlsbad every year, and the town leased its mineral water springs every 15 years. When the new lease was due in 1872 and the lease sum had to be estimated in secret, Löbel Schottländer jokingly took part in this procedure and was promptly awarded the contract. Löbel Schottländer'sche Karlsbader Mineralwasserversendung replaced the previous tenant Mattoni . Until the Nazis attacked Czechoslovakia in 1938, the lease of the mineral water in Karlsbad remained in the possession of the Schottländer family.

Löbel Schottländer built a new house for his family in 1864 at Tauentzienplatz 1 A in Breslau. He also provided for his descendants through the Löbel-und-Henriette-Schottländer-Foundation, because the main foundation of this two-part institution was intended for the members of the Schottländer family and was used for research projects, but also for financially expensive spa stays and the like. used. The subsidiary foundation offered single women adequate housing. Every year on the birthday of Löbel Schottländer, a foundation meeting took place - after his death, this date was initiated by a celebration of the soul in the synagogue of Hartlieb Castle near Breslau and a visit to the Jewish cemetery in Lohestrasse in Breslau, where the deceased family members were buried. The actual meeting took place at Tauentzienplatz 2 in Julius Schottländer's house. On the occasion of Löbel Schottländer's 100th birthday, each participant received a gold medal with a relief portrait of Schottländer. The Löbel and Henriette Schottländer Foundation survived the years of inflation and was active until around 1938. Most recently it was used as an aid for family members to emigrate.

progeny

The tradition of charitable foundations was also maintained by Löbel Schottländer's son Julius and his wife. On her initiative went z. B. returned a Jewish retirement home in Breslau, which existed until 1939. Her son Paul , who inherited the entire property of the family while his sisters received investments and securities, was a member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and actively supported the Rovigno marine research station . In 1913 the station received a glass-bottom ship from him, which he had handed over to Wilhelm II in a personal audience. In the same year an expedition he supported discovered the sponge Crella schottlaenderi . Paul Schottländer's son was taken to the concentration camp by his second Christian wife . One of his daughters also married a Christian who was slain by the National Socialists in 1940 because of this marriage. The body was later found in the Landwehr Canal. His youngest son was deported and murdered.

Salo Schottländer's son Leo became a composer.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Here he is referred to as a furrier .
2. ↑ Mirjam Triendl-Zadoff , Next year in Marienbad , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-56995-5 , p. 68.
3. ^ M. Kreutzberger, Leo Baeck Institute New York Library and Archives. Catalog Volume 1 , Mohr Siebeck 1970, ISBN 978-3-16-830772-3 , p. 460.
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2006 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. 
5. ↑ Lisbeth Ledermann, The Schottländer'sche Family Foundation