Walter Sobernheim

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Walter Sobernheim (born April 14, 1869 in Berlin ; † June 15, 1945 New York ) was a German brewery owner and banker.

Life

Sobernheim studied law and began his professional career at the 'Bankhaus Jakob Landau Nachf.' in Wroclaw. Together with his stepfather Eugen Landau, he became a co-owner of the bank. At the beginning of the 20th century he moved to Berlin.

As general director, he expanded the Schultheiss brewery into one of the largest breweries in Germany. He was involved in the Schultheiss scandal in 1931 , one of the biggest economic scandals of the time. But unlike his colleague on the board, Ludwig Katzenellenbogen, he was not convicted. For many years he was chairman of the Association of German Breweries (the protection association of breweries) and a member of the executive committee of the Reich Association of German Industry. From 1925 to 1933 he was president of the experimental and teaching institute for brewery .

In 1933, after the Nazis came to power, he fled to Paris and then via South America to the USA , where he died in New York in 1945.

family

Walter Sobernheim was a brother of Curt Sobernheim (1871-1940) and Moritz Sobernheim (1872-1933). His stepfather was Eugen Landau (1852–1935), Anna Sobernheim, geb. Magnus (1850–1908) married three years after the death of his father, the banker Adolf Sobernheim (1840–1880). He was married to Gertrud, née Schottländer (1872–1938). The marriage produced three children (Lotte, Frigene and Martin).

His descendants fought for more than half a million Swiss francs in the proceedings for Jewish assets at Swiss banks .

literature

  • Heike Stange: The Sobernheim family ... and the "Haus Waltrud" on Schwanenwerder. (= Jewish miniatures. Volume 163). ed. by Hermann Simon. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95565-087-2 .
  • Sobernheim, Walter , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, pp. 706f.
  • Sobernheim, Walter , in: Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume 5. Chernivtsi, 1931, pp. 556f.

Web links

Commons : Walter Sobernheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Register entry on Walter Sobernheim in the German biography
  2. ↑ Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 418. (books.google.de)
  3. ↑ The Sobernheims of Schwanenwerder
  4. ^ Jewish labor and Jewish capital in the lignite mining area in and around the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg by Ingolf Strassmann
  5. ↑ Fascism and Resistance in Berlin eV, p. 8. (PDF; 486 kB).
  6. ↑ Dieter Ziegler: Upper citizens and entrepreneurs: The German business elite in the 20th century. P. 92 ff. Partially readable online
  7. ↑ Ernst Kaiser, Michael Knorn: We lived and slept between the dead ": Armaments production, forced labor and destruction in the Frankfurt Adlerwerke. Campus Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-593-36163-9 , p. 26. (partly readable online)
  8. ↑ 100 years of experimental and training institute for breweries. Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-921690-25-0 , p. 340.
  9. ^ In re Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation; Accounts of Walter Sobernheim and Gertrud Sobernheim (PDF; 69 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Sobernheim, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German brewery owner and banker
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1945
Place of death new York