Oscar Tietz

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Oscar Tietz (born April 18, 1858 in Birnbaum an der Warthe , Posen Province , † January 17, 1923 in Klosters ) was a German-Jewish merchant. He founded the Hertie department store .

Life

Oscar Tietz was born the son of the carter Jakob Tietz and his wife Johanna. His brother Leonhard Tietz (1849–1914) also founded a department store in Stralsund , from which the Kaufhof group developed. Oscar Tietz had three children with his wife Betty (Rebecka) (1864–1947): Georg, Martin and Else, whose husband was Dr. Hugo Zwillenberg became a third partner in the company alongside his brothers-in-law.

After a commercial apprenticeship and initial employment, Oscar Tietz opened the Hermann Tietz yarn, button, trimmings, white goods and woolen goods store in Gera on March 1, 1882 with the financial support of his uncle Hermann Tietz, which already had the essential characteristics of modern department stores: fixed prices , Instant payment and a wide, unrelated range . From 1886 Tietz opened further department stores in various German cities and in 1900 also in Berlin .

Oscar Tietz founded the Association of German Department Stores (VDWK) in 1903 and in 1919 initiated the establishment of the main association of German retailers HDE, today's German Retail Association . The VDWK became its member. In 1909 Tietz joined the Society of Friends . On the board of the Aid Association of German Jews and in the Assembly of Representatives of the Jewish Community in Berlin, he campaigned for the acceptance of refugees who had fled Russia from 1903–1905 after the anti-Jewish pogroms . Oscar Tietz also proved to be an open mind in other ways: in 1913 he received an international group of feminists for tea.

Tietz grave in Weissensee

The family's grave is in field O2 of the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee . At his place of birth Birnbaum (today Międzychód) a memorial stone and a street name remind of him.

literature

  • Georg Tietz: History of a family and their department stores. Edited by Edith J. Hirsch and Edith Tietz using Julius Hirsch's comments. DVA, Stuttgart 1965 DNB 455070237 .
  • Nils Busch-Petersen : Oscar Tietz. From Birnbaum (province of Posen) to the department store king of Berlin. New Synagogue Foundation Berlin, Centrum Judaicum . Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-933471-67-2 ; 3rd edition, 2013, ISBN 978-3-942271-98-1 (= Jewish miniatures , volume 13).
  • Hermann Tietz (1837–1907), Leonhard Tietz (1849–1914) and Oscar Tietz (1858–1923). Entrepreneur . In: Ekkehard Vollbach: Poets, Thinkers, Directors. Portraits of German Jews , Leipzig: edition chrismon, ISBN 978-3-96038-243-0 , pp. 225–242.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nils Busch-Petersen: Oscar Tietz - from Birnbaum / Province of Posen to the department store king of Berlin , 1st edition. Potsdam, 2004, p. 54.
  2. ^ Clara Bewick Colby: "Berlin to Budapest", in: Ius Suffragii - International Woman Suffrage News, July 1915, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Tietz, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tietz, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, founder of a chain of department stores
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Pear tree on the Warta
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1923
Place of death Monastery