Werner Feilchenfeld

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Werner Feilchenfeld (born April 29, 1895 in Berlin ; † 1985 ) was a German-American economic consultant , businessman and lawyer .

Life

The father Hugo Feilchenfeld (1866–1952) was a medical councilor. Werner Feilchenfeld took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1914 to 1918 and then studied law and politics in Würzburg with a doctorate in 1920 (dissertation: On the reform of the Bavarian Jewish edict). From 1919 he worked first as a research assistant and finally as in-house counsel for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Berlin . During this time he wrote annual and weekly reports on the German economy. In March 1933, since he was a Jew, he was dismissed after the National Socialists came to power. Also in 1933 he lost his position on the supervisory board of the silk company Michels & Cie. in Berlin and at the construction company Bodengesellschaft AG Haberland. He emigrated to Palestine in December 1934 and founded the Palestine Building Corporation in Tel Aviv in 1935 , which employed former Jewish employees of Haberland AG. He also took over the management of the trust company (Haavara Trust and Transfer Ltd., Tel Aviv) as part of the Ha'avara Agreement , which enabled Jewish emigrants from Germany to transfer part of their assets to Palestine. From 1936 to 1940 he was its general director . In this capacity he traveled a lot in Germany and also in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary for the Jewish Agency in order to reach similar agreements.

From 1940 to 1947 he was managing director of Metal Buttons Ltd. in Tel Aviv and from 1945 to 1948 President of the Export Union of Palestine. In the latter role, he traveled extensively in the USA and Europe to promote imports of products from Palestine. In 1948 he was the founder and vice president of the Service for Israel in New York and Tel Aviv and he advised the newly founded State of Israel on economic issues . In 1951 he moved to the USA and worked there as an independent business consultant. In retirement he lived in New York and Florida .

In 1941 he married Lilo Goldblum from Witten . He had a villa on Schwanenwerder , which he sold to his neighbors Alfred Gugenheim and the wife of the District Court Councilor Herbert Gidion when he emigrated .

Fonts

  • Tax manual 1925
  • Jewish trade policy through transfer agreements with Central and Eastern European countries, 1938 (also translated into Hebrew and English)
  • Five Years of Jewish Emigration from Germany and Haavara-Transfer 1933–1939, 1938 (also translated into Hebrew)
  • with others: Haavara transfer to Palestine and immigration of German Jews, 1972

literature

  • Entry in Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss: Biographical Manual of German-speaking Emigration after 1933, Volume 1, KG Saur 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Fischer-Defoy et al. a. (Ed.), Insel Schwanenwerder, Active Museum Fascism and Resistance in Berlin eV, Kulturamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin 2013


personal data
SURNAME Feilchenfeld, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American management consultant and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1985