Paul Franz Wassermann

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Paul Franz Wassermann (born March 3, 1887 in Munich , † November 25, 1941 in Kaunas , Lithuania ) was a German entrepreneur .

Life

Paul Franz Wassermann was the son of Amalie Fechheimer (* 1862; † 1959) and Franz Wassermann (* 1853; † 1914) and remained single. The family lived at Fraunhoferstrasse 16 d. He attended the Luitpold High School and received his doctorate in chemistry from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1910 .

Munich advanced training courses for workers

In 1878, educational courses for workers were considered political parties and banned under the Socialist Law . From 1906 to 1912 Wilhelm Paul Wagner was managing director of the Munich advanced training courses for workers . In July 1915, Paul Franz Wassermann replaced Fritz Beck as managing director of the Munich advanced training courses for workers and was second chairman of the Heimat- und Königbund. The educational institution offered courses in German, arithmetic and algebra. During the First World War, the association was dedicated to war-specific social work.

In 1920 he joined the Epp Freikorps .

In 1923 Wilhelm Bohl replaced him as managing director of the Munich advanced training courses for workers .

Milly candle and soap factory

Elkan Wassermann (* 1816 in Harburg (Swabia) ; † May 22, 1894 in Munich) founded a milk candles and soap factory in Munich in 1840 . The company was the market leader in Bavaria. In 1915 Paul Wassermann inherited the Millykerzen- und Seifenfabrik at Fraunhoferstraße 30 from his father and was provided indispensably. In December 1938 the Millykerzen- und Seifenfabrik was aryanized by the Kopp, Hillers consortium and the previous authorized signatory chemist Wilhelm Schwarzmann.

Paul Wassermann last lived with his sister Ida and his brother-in-law in Schwabing . He was on the first 999 persons deportation list for November 20, 1941, to Vilijampolė in Kaunas , where he was murdered.

Culture of remembrance

Paul-Wassermann-Straße connects Am Hüllgraben in the north via Joseph-Wild-Straße with Werner-Eckert-Straße in the south.

New Town Hall (Munich) In the stairway from the southern grand courtyard of the New Town Hall in Munich there is a memorial plaque (1.22 m × 1.10 m) with 9 × 6 = 54 photos of deported Munich citizens of Jewish descent on the wall of the second landing. The lines of the Kaunas mosaic memorial are placed above this to create a reference to this place. The following text is affixed to the overlying glass plate: “In sadness and shame and appalled by the silence of those who knew, the state capital of Munich remembers the 1,000 Jewish men and women who were deported from Munich to Kovno on November 20, 1941 and to this place 5 days later were brutally murdered. 94 children were among them. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b muenchen.de: Paul-Wassermann-Straße
  2. ^ Munich advanced training courses for workers
  3. ↑ Bernhard Schoßig, The academic workers' teaching courses in Germany with special consideration of the development in Munich. A historical-pedagogical study on the early history of the adult education center, Munich 1985, p. 299; http://d-nb.info/850341639/04 Munich advanced training courses for workers
  4. ↑ Louis-Adolphe de Milly (* 1799; † 1876), a son of fr: Louis-Lézin de Milly , introduced a series of improvements from 1831 onwards, such as soaking the wicks with saline solutions, avoiding the crystallization of stearic acid, and pressing and pouring candles (Milly candles). Louis-Adolphe de Milly , Michael Berndt, Ludwig Wassermann . A Jewish spirit manufacturer between the citizen's crown and the swastika, 16 p., P. 4.
  5. ↑ Dr. Paul Wassermann at Millykerzen- und Seifenfabrik Munich
  6. ↑ These people lived on Fraunhoferstrasse . They were deported and murdered by the Nazis
personal data
SURNAME Wassermann, Paul Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1941
Place of death Kaunas