Otto Nachmann

Otto Nachmann (born August 24, 1893 in Karlsruhe ; † January 13, 1961 there ) was a German entrepreneur.

Career

Nachmann was the fourth son of the couple Samuel Nachmann and their wife Friedericke, née Meier, born. His father had founded a company for scrap material in Karlsruhe in 1887, which was later connected to a rag sorting facility. In 1919 he took over the management of the business together with his brother Hugo and they developed it into one of the most important companies for the recycling of raw materials of this kind in southern Germany. After the National Socialists came to power, the brothers were arrested by the Gestapo in August 1937 and forced to sell their company. Otto Nachmann emigrated to France.

In 1945 he returned and got the family business transferred back, which he rebuilt without his brother who had been murdered in Auschwitz. He was also a member of the Karlsruhe Chamber of Commerce and Industry and President of the Association for Old and Waste Materials.

Nachmann, who had been involved in the Jewish community as early as the 1920s and 1930s, was a co-founder of the Karlsruhe Jewish community after the end of World War II and, from 1945 to 1961, senior councilor of the Israelites in Baden. His son Werner succeeded him in office.

Graves of the Nachmann family in the main cemetery in Karlsruhe

Honors

• 1953: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. - Munich: Saur, 1980–1983