Max Fork

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Max Fork (born June 11, 1892 ; † November 26, 1974 ) was a German furniture manufacturer, designer and interior designer in Reutlingen and Heilbronn . He was a local councilor in Heilbronn and from 1932 also local group leader of the NSDAP .

Life

He married Else Strienz and continued to run the Strienz furniture factory founded around 1910 by his father-in-law Friedrich Strienz (1876–1936) under his name. As an interior designer , he liked to use historical or rural forms. He designed furniture, upholstered furniture, carpets and curtains. In 1921 he won a prize for designing a coffee and tea service for the Württemberg metal goods factory in Geislingen .

From 1932 he was the local group leader of the NSDAP in Heilbronn. There he has u. a. designed the living quarters of his party friends Heinrich Valid and Hugo Kölle , who had headed the city of Heilbronn as mayor since 1933.

From 1936 onwards he was the last chairman of the Heilbronner Beautification Association , which at this point was largely inactive and meaningless. In 1936 he lived in Paulinenstrasse. 3.

Stumbling blocks for the Henle brothers, whose “Aryanized” house Fork acquired

After the Reichspogromnacht he was one of the beneficiaries who previously received cheap Jewish residential property from the city of Heilbronn. So he came into the possession of the property at Klarastraße 6, whose Jewish previous owners had been the brothers Moritz and Julius Henle, who had run a men's tailor shop there before they had to sell the building to the city of Heilbronn, which was far below its value. Both brothers were murdered during the Holocaust . Today Stolpersteine ​​in Innsbrucker Straße 31 commemorate the Henle brothers. In the course of a restitution procedure, the heirs of the previous owners came back into possession of the property after the Second World War. Forks' claims for damages against the city of Heilbronn were dismissed in court until 1966.

The Fork furniture factory was destroyed in the air raid on December 4, 1944 .

After the Second World War, he continued an office for interior architecture and interior decoration at Sülmerstrasse 19 in Heilbronn under the name of his wife. In 1950 this office was in Kaiserstr. 23/1 , 1961 Fork had an office there again under his name.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heilbronn City Archives, Contemporary History Collection, archive signature ZS-13781 and ZS-5198.
  2. ^ Living rooms by interior designer Max Fork , in: Interior Decoration , Volume 3, Darmstadt 1939, pp. 102-106.
  3. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , No. 90 of November 19, 1921, p. 400.
  4. ^ Living rooms by interior designer Max Fork , in: Interior Decoration , Volume 3, Darmstadt 1939, pp. 102-106.
  5. ↑ https://stadtarchiv.heilbronn.de/stadtgeschichte/unterrichtsmaterial/20-jahrhund/arbeit-und-freizeit/preiseinfos.html
  6. ↑ Martin Heigold and Norbert Jung: Around the Jägerhaus in Heilbronn , Heilbronn 2010, p. 20, note 85.
  7. ↑ Susanne Schlösser: The Heilbronn NSDAP and their "leaders". An inventory of the National Socialist personnel policy at the local level and its effects “on site” . In: Christhard Schrenk and Peter Wanner (eds.): Heilbronnica 2. Contributions to the city's history (sources and research on the history of the city of Heilbronn 15), Heilbronn 2003, p. 306.
  8. ↑ Heilbronn City Archives, archive signature B033-481 .
  9. ↑ Heilbronn City Archives, Contemporary History Collection, archive signature ZS-2473
  10. ^ Address books of the city of Heilbronn, issues from 1950 and 1961.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Fork, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German furniture manufacturer, designer and interior designer in Reutlingen and Heilbronn
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1892
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1974