Paul Schottländer

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Paul Schottländer (born February 14, 1870 in Breslau , † March 18, 1938 in Wessig) was a German manor owner, scientist and patron .

Life

family

Paul Schottländer was the son of Anna and Julius Schottländer , a nephew of Salo and a grandson of Löbel Schottländer . Together with his father, he was listed among the 100 richest people in Prussia in 1910. From his marriage to Ludmilla Schlesinger (1877–1938) the sons Alfred Leo (1899–1947) and Heinrich Schottländer (1907–1945) and a daughter emerged. Alfred Leo Schottländer was his first marriage to a Christian banker's daughter. The marriage ended in divorce. His second wife took him to a concentration camp to take his property. Alfred Leo Schottländer died in Montreux two years after the end of the war . Paul Schottländer's daughter married a nobleman in 1935 who was slain by the Nazis in 1940 because of this marriage. Heinrich Schottländer died with his wife and child in the Theresienstadt concentration camp . Paul Schottländer is buried in the family grave in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Breslau .

Career

Paul Schottländer passed his Abitur at St. Maria Magdalena High School in Breslau at Easter 1888 and received his doctorate in 1892 with the thesis Contributions to the knowledge of the cell nucleus and the sexual cells in cryptogams in Breslau. phil. He was co-founder and chairman of the Wroclaw University Association. He was also a member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science . In 1913 he was the patron of an expedition whose members discovered the Crella schottlaenderi sponge named after him . The Rovigno marine research station received not only financial support from him, but also a glass-bottom boat in 1913 . He personally presented the donation to the emperor during an audience.

As early as 1911, Schottländer toyed with the idea of ​​having a submarine built for research purposes. In 1912 the project was implemented and the construction of the pressure hull of a 12 m long submarine in the Danubius shipyard in Fiume began. The boat, christened Loligo (Latin Kalamar), was expanded in 1914 in the Whitehead shipyard . It offered space for six men, a three-man crew and three researchers, was equipped with an electric motor and could dive to a depth of 50 m. The outbreak of World War I prevented an operation, even if the Austro-Hungarian Navy thought about using the boat in Lake Garda . Even Italy had after the war no interest in the submarine and there was Paul Schottländer back, which eventually sold it to a scrap dealer.

Until 1933, Schottländer was an honorary senator at the University of Breslau. In 1935 he had to resign from the administrative committee of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Between 1917 and 1936 he was a member of the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society .

Trivia

A shop built on Ulica Świdnicka (Schweidnitzer Strasse) in Wroclaw in 1897 was called "Paul Schottländer Department Store".

literature

• Schottländer, Paul , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 335
• Schottländer, Paul , in: Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume 5. Chernivtsi, 1931, p. 462

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.bankgeschichte.de/downloads/gb/gb_1920.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=harzed&id=I18492 . Here , however, we are talking about a daughter Dora, but not son Heinrich. Lisbeth Ledermann, on the other hand, lists two sons and a daughter and their fates reported here. According to the gravestone inscriptions, Paul Schottländer's younger son was Ard Heinrich and the daughter, who was married to a Mr. von Tepper-Laski, was called Dora.
3. ↑ http://forum.ahnenforschung.net/showthread.php?t=9238&page=4
4. ↑ Schottlaender, P .: Contributions to the knowledge of the cell nucleus and the sexual cells in cryptogams . Univ. Breslau, 1892, p. 40 ( Google Books ).
5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In this source Wessig is given as the place of death, while Berlin is mentioned in the Rootsweb. 
6. ↑ Lisbeth Ledermann: The Schottländer'sche Family Foundation. P. 10. - Ledermann gives the date of death March 21, 1938, while the 18th is mentioned on Rootsweb. The typescript is digitized.
7. ↑ Loligo: From the shipyard to the scrap dealer. The plans for the first German research submarine in history were found in: Focus Online , accessed on January 31, 2018
8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ^ Jens Hoppe: Jewish history and culture in museums. On the non-Jewish museology of the Jewish in Germany. Waxmann, 2002, ISBN 978-3830911784 , p. 270.
10. ^ Rüdiger Hachtmann : Science management in the »Third Reich«. History of the general administration of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Wallstein Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-83530108-5 , p. 409.
11. ↑ http://www.polyglott.de/online_reisefuehrer/1421/polen/sehenswuerdheiten/113895/ulica_swidnicka_schweidnitzer_strasse/  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.