Leo Alport
Leo Alport (born February 8, 1863 in Posen , † March 5, 1935 in Great Britain ) was a German banker , industrialist and chairman of the supervisory board of Beiersdorf AG in Hamburg .
Life
The banker Leo Alport played a prominent role in the economic and financial world during the imperial era and in the Weimar Republic and until 1920 he ran the Poznan bank Adolph Alport , which had to relocate to Hamburg after Poznan was absorbed by Poland . There he dressed u. a. an office as chairman of the supervisory board of the chemical factory in Beiersdorf . After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he went to Great Britain with his family and formally resigned from Beiersdorf.
family
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He was married to the art collector and patron Valerie Alport , b. Mankiewicz, the sister of Gertrude Troplowitz, who in turn was married to Oscar Troplowitz , the Nivea inventor and main shareholder of Beiersdorf. After the deaths of Otto († 1918) and Gertrude Troplowitz († 1920), the Alports lived from 1921 in the Troplowitz Villa in Hamburg at the head of the Outer Alster . The couple had two children: Anna-Elisabeth and Erich-Adolph.
literature
- Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
swell
- ↑ Hamburg address book from 1921, Stabi Hamburg (read on October 31, 2013)
- ↑ Politics, economics, public life. Edited by Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss , page 12
- ↑ Entrepreneurship and Multinationals by Geoffrey Jones, October 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alport, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German banker and industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poses |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1935 |
| Place of death | Great Britain |