Peter Schlumbom

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Peter Christoph Schlumbom (* 1887 ; † 1959 ) was a German businessman who lived in East Asia for a few years and moved back to Hamburg after 1938 .

Life

Trading activities in East Asia

Peter Schlumbom came to East Asia as a young businessman, where he worked in Singapore , the Philippines and Japan until 1939 . Around 1912 he worked for the company Behn, Meyer & Co. (now Behn Meyer Holding AG ) in Singapore, which was founded by Theodor August Behn and Valentin Lorenz Meyer .

About Behn, Meyer & Co. He came to Manila . After the Americans had the Filipino branch forcibly liquidated after the First World War in 1918 because they suspected a politically active government institution behind the German trading company, Ed. A. Keller & Co. came to Manila and later also employed there at Behn, Meyer & Co. Swiss Johannes M. Menzi acquired a significant stake in the now American company in agreement with the buyer John Bordman. Menzi then founded his own company Menzi & Co. in Manila , in which Schlumbom can be proven to have been a partner around 1924. He is named as a corresponding member in the 1929 Annual Conference Report of the Philippine Sugar Association . At least Schlumbom's son Peter Christoph (* 1928) - he received his doctorate in 1960 at the ETH Zurich and settled in Basel - and his daughter Rose-Marie, called Romi (* 1929) - later married to the humorist Loriot - were born in Manila .

After moving to Japan again in 1934, the children were enrolled in the German school in Kobe . The family of six lived in a house in Ashiya . In Osaka , Schlumbom was the owner of the Schlumbom boeki gōshi-gaisha based in Tosabori-dori, Nishi-ku (see legal form # Japan ), which had a branch in Kobe, and where the company management was the managing partner of the Hanseatic businessman sent at that time was obviously unknown.

Schlumbom's family served as a template for the Stolz family ( Japanese シ ュ ト ル ツ ) in the story Sasame-yuki ( Japanese 細 雪 , German: the Makioka sisters ) by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō .

Time of National Socialism and return to Germany

After business in Japan was not going well, he joined the German Labor Front (DAF) on June 1, 1935 and the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) on November 1, 1936 . As the father of four children with his wife Frieda, née Kuss, he also joined the Reichsbund der Kinderreich (RdK) in 1939 . Before the outbreak of war , he returned to Germany with his family. Among other things, he took on a position as a block helper / block manager .

With the purchase of numerous companies such as He achieved greater prosperity in the Third Reich, for example through " aryanization purchases" by the linen and cotton wholesaler Schönfeld & Wolfers and that of the Dutch professional clothing wholesaler Joseph Veffer in Amsterdam . The family was "bombed out" twice during the war, which initially left little of the prosperity.

Schlumbom in post-war Germany

After the war ended, Schlumbom was negotiated as part of the denazification process in June 1948, in particular the sale of the Schönfeld & Wolfers company . The purchase contract came about after Schlumbom's information about contacting a Hamburg merchant, who reportedly told him that the co-owner Hugo Wolfers was planning to leave for Australia . This purchase contract was signed on June 29, 1939 before the outbreak of war, came into force on September 25, 1940, and was approved and notarized in October 1940 by Reich Governor Karl Kaufmann , citing the Nuremberg Laws . This established that the co-owners of Hugo Wolfers (* 1875; deported 1941), Elisabeth Gorden, b. Wolfers (* 1879; deported 1941), Sigrid Hess, b. Wolfers (1903–1948) and Natalie Kramer, b. Wolfers (* 1906) Jews and named Gertrud Wolfers, b. Fränkel (1882–1956), first-degree hybrid, and Peter Schlumbom are " Aryans ". The conditions were that Hugo Wolfers as an employee initially only continued to work in the company until December 31, 1940 and the previous company name, even with an addition expressing the successor business, was only allowed to be used until that time at the latest.

According to Schlumbom, Wolfers, as a former company owner, was employed as a salaried employee until March 31, 1941 in order to secure his livelihood in his previous company. Hugo Wolfers and his wife Olga née Oppenheimer (1885; also deported in 1941 and co-owner of Schönfeld & Wolfers ) were both commemorated with stumbling blocks at Hofweg 31 in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst .

Despite the appeals committee's doubts, Schlumbom was not convicted and continued his textile business in Hamburg.

He was a member of the East Asian Association .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d See references to the database entry of the NS-Dabeigewesenen Hamburg
  2. ^ Behn, Meyer & Co. Ltd. In: The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Sian, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, & c. […] For the year 1912. 50th year, The Hongkong Daily Press Office, Hong Kong / London 1912, p. 1489.
  3. ↑ Under Pressure - Restoring Relations with the Philippines. In: Volker Schult: Desire and Reality. German-Filipino Relations in the Context of Global Interdependencies 1860–1945 , Logos Verlag, Berlin 2008, pp. 203 f. ISBN 978-3-832-51898-1
  4. ^ Sugar News, Volume 5, Sugar News Press, 1924, p. 718.
  5. ^ Associate Membership Section. In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Philippine Sugar Association. Philippine Sugar Association, 1929, p. 7.
  6. ^ Vita of Peter Christoph Schlumbom (* 1928) in his dissertation. Contribution to the polymerization of N-vinylsuccinimide. ETH Zurich, 1960, p. 61.
  7. ↑ have resigned. In: Annual report 1969 of the Basel SAC section , 107th year of the association, born in 1969, p. 22.
  8. ↑ a b c d Romi. In: Dieter Lobenbrett: Loriot: Biography. riva, Munich 2011, p. 67 ff. ISBN 978-3-86883-143-6 . ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  9. ^ First years in Kobe / Japan. In: Rudolf Franz Ratjen: At Home in the World: An Autobiography. BoD, 2010, p. 40. ISBN 978-3-839-16921-6 .
  10. ↑ 『倚 松 庵 の 夢』 か ら. In: 戦 前 の ド イ ツ - 『細 雪』 と ド イ ツ 人 第一 部 (Japanese), February 17, 2017.
  11. ^ Hugo Wolfers * 1875 .; In: Stolpersteine ​​Hamburg. hamburg.de.
  12. ^ "Peter C. Schlumbom, Hohe Bleichen 22, Hamburg, Germany, wishes to obtain a [?] For nylon hosiery for women, and nylon fabrics for all grades of women's dresses"; in: American Import and Export Bulletin. Volumes 44-45, p. 38, 1956.
  13. ↑ Textiles. Germany - Peter Schlumbom. In: Foreign Commerce Weekly , US Department of Commerce, 1955. p. 17.
  14. ^ Report on the year 1960. East Asian Association, 1960, p. 143.
personal data
SURNAME Schlumbom, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlumbom, Peter Christoph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and commercial entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1887
DATE OF DEATH 1959