Ludwig Katzenellenbogen

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Ludwig Katzenellenbogen

Ludwig Katzenellenbogen (born February 21, 1877 in Krotoschin ; † May 30, 1944 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German brewery director .

Life

His father Adolph Katzenellenbogen (1834–1903) founded the alcohol distillery in what was then Krotoschin (now Krotoszyn). In 1903 Ludwig became head of his father's business and founded the Spiritus headquarters in Berlin (later nationalized).

At the end of 1924, a consortium under his leadership acquired a large stake in Mitteldeutsche Creditbank , in which his cousin Albert (1863 – after 1933) was a member of the board . After the death of Adolf Jarislowsky's son Alfred (1929), the way was clear for the merger with Commerzbank . He became general director of the Ostwerke-Schultheiss-Patzenhofer brewery in Berlin. The Ostwerke were a group of alcohol , cement , yeast , glass and machine factories and ran into difficulties after taking over the Schultheiss-Patzenhofer brewery and as a result of the economic crisis at the end of the 1920s .

Katzenellenbogen was a member of the Society of Friends .

Until 1930 he was married to Estella Marcuse (1886-1991), the daughter of a doctor. Her children were the political scientist Konrad Kellen (1913–2007) and the younger sisters Estella and Leonie. In 1930 he married the actress Tilla Durieux .

In 1931 he was embroiled in financial scandals. He had taken out loans from several banks without informing the banks about the other existing loans. In addition, he had presented a forged prospectus . He was arrested in October 1931, spent several months in custody and sentenced on March 18, 1932 to three months in prison and a fine of RM 10,000, with large parts of the charges being dropped.

In 1933 he fled with Tilla Durieux to Ascona in Switzerland and emigrated from there to Zagreb in Croatia in 1935 , where a distant relative of his wife lived. While these tried in Belgrade for both a visa to emigrate to the United States to get, she was frustrated by the German bombing and attack on Belgrade in April 1941 and thus separated from her husband. Katzenellenbogen was arrested by the Gestapo in Saloniki in 1941 and deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp north of Berlin, where he died.

literature

  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
  • Tilla Durieux : My first ninety years. Herbig, Munich 1971 (mostly called LK there)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Genealogical information in the article about Adolf Katzenellenbogen (1901–1963): Eva-Suzanne Bayer-Klötzer:  Katzenellenbogen, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 335 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Upper citizens and entrepreneurs: the German business elite in the 20th century, p. 99
  3. Einstein in Berlin 1914–1933 By Hubert Goenner, p. 138
  4. Ursula El-Akramy: The Berend sisters - story of a Berlin family . European publishing house Rotbuch Verlag, Hamburg 2002, p. 346.
  5. Tilla Durieux : My first ninety years. Herbig, Munich 1971, pp. 321-324
  6. Tilla Durieux: My first ninety years. Herbig, Munich 1971, pp. 328-331
  7. Tilla Durieux: My first ninety years. Herbig, Munich 1971, pp. 349-365
  8. Stefan Koldehoff: A shot in the heart. In: welt.de . January 14, 2006, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  9. Tilla Durieux: My first ninety years. Herbig, Munich 1971, p. 376