Oswald Gellert

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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

  1. ↑ Oswald Gellert on findagrave.com
  2. ↑ Death notice of son Peter-Josef New York Times January 2, 2001
  3. ↑ Petschek. Encyclopaedia Judaica, accessed May 18, 2020.
  4. ↑ Helena Krejčová, Mario Vlček: Výkupné za život. Tilia, 2009, p. 359 f.
  5. ^ Entry on Oswald Gellert on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London).
  6. ↑ Helena Krejčová, Mario Vlček: Výkupné za život. Tilia, 2009, p. 359 f.
  7. ^ 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.
personal data
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