Louis Adlon (hotelier)

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Louis Adlon with wife Hedda (1926)
Louis Adlon at his desk (1932)

Louis Adlon ( actually Ludwig Anton Adlon ; born October 3, 1874 in Mainz , † May 7, 1945 in Falkensee ) was a German hotelier.

Life

Louis Adlon was the second of three children to Lorenz Adlon and his wife Susanne, geb. Wannsiedel, born. His father had the Berlin luxury hotel Adlon built, which opened in 1907. After his death Louis took over the hotel in 1921 and ran it until the end of his life.

Under his leadership, it became a legend in the Roaring Twenties and a focal point for many international guests such as Marlene Dietrich , Josephine Baker , Thomas Mann and Charlie Chaplin . With the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , however, these became fewer and fewer. In 1940 he and his second wife Hedda joined the NSDAP . The hotel survived the aerial warfare and the Battle of Berlin in April 1945. Shortly afterwards, the Adlon burned down almost completely from the wine cellar while it was being looted by Red Army soldiers . It stood as a ruin until 1952 and was then torn down except for one side wing.

In Berlin, Adlon was arrested by the Soviet military after the surrender, kidnapped and died under unknown circumstances. His wife Hedda found the body and arranged for a temporary burial first. He was later buried in the old cathedral cemetery St. Hedwig in Berlin. Hedda Adlon died in 1967.

In the TV movie Das Adlon. He was portrayed in a family saga by Heino Ferch .

family

Louis had five children with his first wife, Tilly. After almost 15 years of marriage, he got divorced and in 1922 married the German-American Hedwig Leythen (1889–1967), known as Hedda . Tilly moved to southern Germany with her daughter Elisabeth, while the other children Susanne (mother of Percy Adlon ), Lorenz and the twins Carl and Louis junior were sent to boarding school. The last three later emigrated to America .

Adlon had the Villa Adlon built on a plot of land inherited from his second wife in Neu Fahrland .

literature

  • Hedda Adlon: Hotel Adlon. The Berlin hotel, in which the big world was a guest , Kindler-Verlag 1955, Heyne-Verlag, 25th edition, ISBN 3-453-00926-6

Web links

Commons : Louis Adlon  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A big family with dates
  2. ↑ In the glamorous world of the Hotel Adlon
  3. ↑ 100 years of Hotel Adlon: Germany's first address spiegel.de/einestages
  4. ↑ What is true and what is invention in the big TV epic?
  5. ↑ A big family
  6. ↑ RP online: The true story of the Adlon
  7. ↑ Villa Adlon . Website of the Neu Fahrland district. Retrieved on 2011-07-18
  8. ↑ Hedda Adlon 1955
personal data
SURNAME Adlon, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adlon, Ludwig Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hotelier
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1945
Place of death Falkensee