Martin Elsas

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Martin Elsas (born March 11, 1872 in Ludwigsburg ; † October 2, 1939 ) was a German businessman and functionary of the Karlsruhe Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the community committee of the Jewish community in Karlsruhe after 1933.

The son of the Ludwigsburg factory owner Oscar Elsas attended secondary school in Ludwigsburg and then did an apprenticeship in a sheet metal factory. After completing his apprenticeship, he had various positions, until in 1892 he worked as a correspondent and traveler in the LJ Ettlinger hardware store in Karlsruhe, where he then also became a partner. Elsas was for many years Vice President of the Karlsruhe Chamber of Commerce, deputy member of the Baden Railway Council of the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

In the Jewish community of Karlsruhe, Elsas was chairman of the community committee under National Socialism from 1933. Martin Elsas was with Antonie geb. Ettlinger married. She died just a few weeks after his death. Antonie Elsas was co-founder of the umbrella organization of Baden women's organizations, which was founded in 1917, and was its first chairwoman. The daughter Grete Elsas (* June 12, 1898) studied as well as the son Paul Theodor Elsas (* June 7, 1904) at the Technical University of Karlsruhe.

The Elsas couple were buried in Karlsruhe in the liberal Jewish cemetery Haid- und Neu-Straße in Karlsruhe. Leopold Ettlinger (Arje), the former owner of the LJ Ettlinger hardware store, his wife Therese Ettlinger nee Stern and their son Max (Mosche Tuviah) Ettlinger (1880–1927) are also in the same tomb . buried.

literature

  • Georg Wenzel: German business leaders . Hanseatic Publishing House, 1929
  • Heinz Schmitt (Ed.): Jews in Karlsruhe. Contributions to their history up to the Nazi seizure of power . Publications of the Karlsruhe City Archives Vol. 8, Badenia Verlag, Karlsruhe 1988, ISBN 3-7617-0268-X
  • Josef Werner: swastika and Jewish star. The fate of the Karlsruhe Jews in the Third Reich . Publications of the Karlsruhe City Archives Vol. 9. Badenia Verlag, Karlsruhe 1988

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wenzel, Georg (1929: 46)
  2. ↑ Schmitt, Heinz (1990: 168)
  3. ↑ Schmitt, Heinz (1990: 577f.)
  4. ^ Website with the Ettlinger / Elsas grave site
personal data
SURNAME Elsas, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1939