Walter Neumann (manufacturer)

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Walter Neumann (* 13. December 1892 in Friedberg , † 3. September 1948 in Blackburn ) was a German Jewish industrialist and football - patron . Neumann was a victim of Aryanization who had to emigrate to England .

Life

Walter Neumann came from a German-Jewish family. The enthusiastic footballer played in the reserve team at Phoenix Karlsruhe from 1908 to 1912 . As a soldier he sustained a serious eye injury during World War I. Walter Neumann, together with his cousins ​​Lothar and Fritz Adler, owned the shoe factory J. & CA Schneider (JCAS), which the family had acquired in 1911. In the 1920s and 1930s, JCAS was one of the largest manufacturers of shoes in Europe and also an important sponsor in German and international football. Walter Neumann, known as the "Schlappe-Stinnes", had been a member of Eintracht Frankfurt since October 1925 . In the years that followed, he was recognized for his commitment several times by both the association and the Southern German Association . In the commemorative publication "50 Years of Unity" from 1949 it says:

“The man who led Eintracht without sitting in the president's chair was called Walter Neumann. He had an irrepressible love of life, but as soon as it came to the club, he got serious. "

After the National Socialists came to power , he was arrested on February 20, 1934 for an alleged "foreign exchange offense". This prompted him to flee to Amsterdam with his family in October 1935 . For his established assets of 136,011 RM he had to pay a “ Reich flight tax ” of 34,003 RM. In June 1936 he moved from Amsterdam to London , where they lived on Regent Street. The family later moved to Blackburn . His cousin Fritz Adler was arrested during the Reichspogromnacht in 1938 and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp . He was threatened that he could only count on being released from the concentration camp if he was sold. Worn down, the Adlers signed the sales contract for JCAS after a few weeks in front of the Frankfurt notary Kurt Wirth.

In England the Neumanns called themselves "Newman" from then on. Walter Newman re-established a shoe factory in Blackburn, which soon became one of the largest shoe factories in Great Britain. He was a prominent member of the Jewish community and found a new sporting home with the Blackburn Rovers . Walter Neumann died in Blackburn on September 3, 1948.

The company founded by Walter Neumann in Blackburn only stopped producing shoes in 1999. Walter Neumann was married to Charlotte Neumann and they had two children: Hans (later Jack) and Manon.

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literature

  • Raul Hilberg: The annihilation of the European Jews: the total history of the Holocaust. From the American by Christian Seeger et al. 840 pp. Frankfurt am Main et al. Büchergilde Gutenberg 1990. ISBN 3-7632-2763-6 .
  • Johannes Ludwig: Boycott, expropriation, murder: the "de-Judaization" of the German economy . 399 S. Hamburg; Munich: Facta-Oblita-Verlag 1992. ISBN 3-492-11580-2 .
  • Susanne Meinl, Jutta Zwilling: Legalized robbery: the plundering of the Jews during National Socialism by the Reich Finance Administration in Hesse . Scientific series of the Fritz Bauer Institute; Vol. 10: 745 S. Frankfurt / Main u. a.:Campus-Verlag. 2004. ISBN 3-593-37612-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling, Erik Eggers: Star of David and Lederball: The History of the Jews in German and International Football , Die Werkstatt, 2003, p. 132
  2. ^ Hilberg, R. (1990: 153)
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlappe-Stinnes (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manufacturer and football patron
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedberg
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1948
Place of death Blackburn