Philipp Offenheimer

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Philipp Offenheimer (born September 10, 1861 in Schmieheim ; † October 4, 1930 in Okriftel ) was a Jewish entrepreneur, councilor , inventor , joint patent holder and sponsor of the Senckenberg Nature Museum .

Life

Offenheimer married Lucie in Stuttgart who was born in Munich (1868–1964) . The siblings Ernst and Marie Therese (1890–1986) Offenheimer come from this marriage. After his death, under the subsequent management of Ernst, he left them the cellulose factory Phil. Offenheimer Okriftel (( Cellulose factory Okriftel a. M. Ph. Offenheimer ), ( Cellulose factory Ph. Offenheimer Okriftel a. M ) also ( Cellulose factory Okriftel )) Als Entrepreneur he was a leader in the production of cellulose, carbon paper and paper. He also produced fuel .

After the Aryanization of the company in the spring of 1938 and the Night of the Pogroms , the family fled to London and Lucie Offenheimer emigrated to San Francisco with her daughter Marie Therese in 1942 . Restored in 1949, the company was sold to Phrix-AG in 1951 .

patron

Philipp Offenheimer financially supported the construction of the Okrifteler town hall, which was built in 1930, and left the former canteen as a school and prayer room to the local Jewish community .

literature

  • Norbert Cobabus: German Jews in modern industrial history using the example of the companies CF Donner, Bloch & Hirsch, Cellulose- u. Okriftel paper factory and Telefonbau & Normalzeit: from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 1950s, association for a research, exhibition and documentation center owned by the former. Factory site Ober-Rodener Straße in Rödermark-Urberach, Rödermark-Urberach, 2007, pp. 81, 82.
  • Alfred Krump and Winfried Schwarz: Okrifteler history and stories , 2010
  • Hartmut Berghoff, Cornelia Rauh-Kühne: Fritz K .: A German Life in the Twentieth Century

Web links (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The paper : Patent dated August 17, 1897 , accessed December 8, 2001
  2. ^ Patent dated February 27, 1926 , accessed December 7, 2011
  3. ↑ Active sponsor , accessed December 7, 2011
  4. ↑ Personal details of the family, ( PDF file; 79 kB), accessed on December 8, 2011
  5. ↑ Fuel , accessed December 8, 2011
  6. ↑ Open House 2010 , (photo of two gas pumps ), accessed on December 8, 2011
  7. ↑ State Archives April 1, January 3. Processes ( Memento of May 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 2.51 MB), accessed on December 8, 2011
  8. ↑ The Barbarian Raid , accessed December 7, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Offenheimer, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, councilor, inventor
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmieheim
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1930
Place of death Okriftel