Richard Lehmann (industrialist)

Richard Lehmann (born April 22, 1864 in Berlin ; † June 4, 1943 in Theresienstadt ) was a German engineer and entrepreneur .

Life

Richard Salomon Lehmann, son of Anton Lehmann (1834–1899) and his wife Clara Therese Lehmann b. Liebermann (1841–1942), attended the Friedrichs-Gymnasium Berlin . He then trained in the Anton & Alfred Lehmann AG scarf and cloth factory in Berlin-Niederschöneweide , which was co-founded by his father and his brother Alfred. Lehmann then studied chemistry and mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , especially with Carl Engler . There he became a member of the Germania fraternity (now Teutonia ).

In 1886, after completing his studies, Lehmann traveled to Great Britain . He worked there as a dyer journeyman until 1887. He deepened his knowledge of dyeing and weaving through evening courses . In 1888 Lehmann became head of department in his father's factory. In 1890 he became director, and four years later director general. In 1891 he joined the Society of Friends .

The daughter Edith, born in 1892, fled to Great Britain with her family in 1939. The son Hans Lehmann, born in 1895, died in 1928 and was buried in a hereditary funeral that still exists today in the forest cemetery Oberschöneweide, near the hereditary burial of the Rathenau family, who are related to Lehmanns.

Richard Lehmann has been a member of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce since it was founded. This awarded him the bronze medal on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. Lehmann was the first chairman of the Association of German Krimmer- und Wollplüsch-Fabrikanten eV, a board member of the North German Textile Trade Association and a member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society .

Lehmann was persecuted as a Jew during the Nazi era . The Gestapo deported him and his wife on December 15, 1942 in the Jewish hospital in Wedding . On February 2, the couple were transported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp , where Lehmann died on June 4. On June 4, 1943 Elsbeth Lehmann was deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp, where she was presumably murdered soon after arrival.

literature

• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. #.
• Marina Sandig: The Liebermanns. Berlin 2003.

Web links

• Berlin: street: Richard and Elsbeth Lehmann [1]