Oswald Gellert
Oswald R. Gellert (born July 17, 1889 in Budweis , Kingdom of Bohemia , † April 29, 1943 in Rye, NY ) was a Bohemian , later Czechoslovak industrialist.
Life and activity
Gellert was a son of the industrialist Rudolf Gellert and his wife Auguste, née Fürth. He was the owner of a paper manufacturing company in Budweis and a leading industrialist in Czechoslovakia in the interwar period . Through his wife, he was part of the Prager Line of the Petschek entrepreneurial dynasty , who all left Central Europe between 1934 and 1937 and moved to the USA.
As the leading representative of the Julius Petschek heirs , who the German authorities accused of, among other things, share fraud and tax evasion, Gellert was later included in the special wanted list by the Reich Security Main Office , a directory of people who were to be arrested by special units of the SS during a German occupation of England . In fact, he had been in the United States since the spring of 1938.
family
Gellert was married to Grete Petschek (1894–1980), a daughter of the industrialist Julius Petschek .
Fonts
- Iron and scrap iron in their technical and economic relationships (= treatises from the economics seminar at the Dresden University of Technology. Ed. By R. Wuttle. Issue 4) Munich 1912.
literature
- Stephen Taylor: Who's who in Central and East Europe. Central European Times Publishing Company, 1935, p. 302.
- Bavarian Academy of Sciences: New German Biography. Volume 20. Duncker & Humblot, 1953, p. 268.
- Helena Krejčová, Mario Vlček: Výkupné za život. Tilia, 2009, pp. 359-376.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oswald Gellert on findagrave.com
- ↑ Death notice of son Peter-Josef New York Times January 2, 2001
- ↑ Petschek. Encyclopaedia Judaica, accessed May 18, 2020.
- ↑ Helena Krejčová, Mario Vlček: Výkupné za život. Tilia, 2009, p. 359 f.
- ^ Entry on Oswald Gellert on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London).
- ↑ Helena Krejčová, Mario Vlček: Výkupné za život. Tilia, 2009, p. 359 f.
- ^ Society for the history of Czechoslovak Jews (ed.): The Jews of Czechoslovakia: historical studies and surveys. Volume 1. Jewish Publication Society of America, 1968, p. 393.
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SURNAME | Gellert, Oswald |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gellert, Oswald R. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak industrialist |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1889 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ceske Budejovice |
DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1943 |
Place of death | Rye, NY |