Paul Mamroth

Paul Mamroth (born September 21, 1859 in Breslau , † November 20, 1938 in Teltow ) was a German industrialist and financial expert.

Life

Mamroth was the son of Jewish parents in Breslau. After attending secondary school, Mamroth received an apprenticeship at the Wroclaw banking house Marcus Nelken & Sohn. In 1882, after completing his apprenticeship, he moved to Berlin. At first he worked at the Darmstädter und Nationalbank. In 1883 he met the AEG founder Emil Rathenau through the mediation of Felix Deutsch . As a financial specialist, he helped the much older company founder to turn AEG into a global corporation. Mamroth had intensive contact with Adolf Slaby and Georg Graf von Arco . From 1883, Adolf Slaby built up a chair for electrical engineering at the TH Berlin- Charlottenburg . His assistant Georg Graf von Arco was a co-founder of the Telefunken Society. Mamroth supported the research activities of Slaby and Arco by donating considerable financial resources.

Paul Mamroth had been married to Elsa Sabersky (1874–1905), 15 years his junior, and a daughter of the banker Max Sabersky (1840–1887), the owner of Gut Seehof in Teltow, since 1894 . The following year the daughter Lotte was born. In 1904 Mamroth placed the order to build a villa Gutspark in Seehof , which was ready for occupancy in 1905. Elsa Mamroth died at the age of 31 on October 26, 1905. She was buried in a family grave in the Teltow cemetery. In his second marriage, Paul Mamroth was in a relationship with the singer Elisabeth Saatz from 1923.

Mamroth was a member of the Society of Friends in Berlin.

Since 1902, Paul Mamroth has been a member of the organizing committee of all Berlin automobile exhibitions and provided for their funding. He was also the initiator of the AVUS race track in Berlin. In 1910 AEG began building aircraft in Hennigsdorf. Mamroth led the negotiations when Deutsche Luft-Reederei GmbH was founded in 1918. Lufthansa finally emerged from this in 1926, and Paul Mamroth sat on its supervisory board for a long time.

After the death of Emil Rathenau in 1915, Paul Mamroth became AEG Vice Chairman and managed the finance department. From 1909 he was chairman of the supervisory board of the United Lausitzer Glaswerke AG founded by Joseph Schweig and prepared the merger with AEG in 1922. In 1920 Paul Mamroth brought about the merger of the light bulb factory of AEG, Siemens & Halske and the Auer-Gesellschaft to form Osram GmbH.

He held the position of Vice Chairman of the Board for a long time together with Felix Deutsch , who died in 1928. Until 1928 he was a member of the three-person board of AEG. He then moved to the AEG Supervisory Board, particularly for health reasons. Under pressure from the National Socialists, he resigned from all important offices by the summer of 1936: from the supervisory boards of AEG, Osram-GmbH, Deutsche Luft Hansa AG, the automobile club and the Heinrich-Hertz-Gesellschaft.

Grave in the Teltower cemetery

Paul Mamroth was also one of those people of Jewish religion or origin who were forced out of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce in May 1933. Of the 98 members who belonged to the general assembly of the Berlin Chamber of Industry and Commerce in 1932, 80 were forcibly ousted when it merged with the Brandenburg Chamber of Commerce in 1933.

Paul Mamroth was affected by the so-called “ Helldorff donation ” in 1938 , although he was baptized as a Protestant in 1906 . Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorf , Berlin police chief since 1935 and neighbor of the Mamroth family, issued a compulsory levy for wealthy Jews in Berlin in 1938 without any legal basis.

Mamroth died in November 1938 at his summer residence in Teltow-Seehof of the consequences of a stroke . A few days earlier it was the night of the Reichspogrom . In addition, shortly before that, the honorary senator of the TH Berlin had been withdrawn from him. He was buried in a family grave in the Teltow cemetery.

The residential building of the Mamroths, including the property in Lichtensteinallee 3a, was acquired at pressure from Albert Speer in 1941 so that a studio for Speer could be built on it. Construction work lasted until the summer of 1943. In November 1943, the property was largely destroyed in a bomb attack.

Honors

• 1921: Dr. Ing. E. H. of the TH Breslau
• 1922: Honorary Senator of the TH Berlin
• 1930: Heinrich Hertz Medal in bronze

Works

• From my notes , Berlin 1927.

literature

• Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoss:  Mamroth, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , pp. 2-4 ( digitized version ).
• Günter Duwe: Paul Mamroth (1859–1938), Günter Duwe on a forgotten Teltower , Teltow 2010.
• Carina Baganz: Discrimination, exclusion, expulsion: The Technical University Berlin during National Socialism , Berlin 2013, p. 266 f.
• Martin Münzel: The displacement of Jewish executive and supervisory board members from large Berlin companies in the Nazi state . in: Biggeleben / Schreiber / Steiner (ed.): "Aryanization" in Berlin . Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3938690-55-0 , pp. 95-109.