Wilhelm Altmann (businessman)
Wilhelm Altmann (born in Pleschen in 1882 ; died after 1941) was a German businessman and association official. He was persecuted by the Nazi regime because of his Jewish origins and emigrated to Cuba in 1941 .
Life
Altmann, who comes from Pleschen near Posen , had owned a women's clothing store at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse 17 in Braunschweig since 1912 . He took part in the First World War and was later head of the Reich Association of Jewish Front-Line Soldiers in Braunschweig. In April 1933 he took part in a meeting of the youth group of this association in the Handelshof in Braunschweig. In the evening eleven members of the group were arrested by the SS on the street . They were taken to the Volksfreund-Haus and then to the AOK, where they were detained and mistreated for several days. When Altmann intervened, he aroused the displeasure of the National Socialists and was imprisoned in the Rennelberg detention center from July 16-19, 1933 . In the course of the November pogroms in 1938 , he was arrested again on November 10th and ended up in Buchenwald concentration camp . Altmann was able to continue his business until 1938, whereby he had to reduce it to a storey on the 3rd floor of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße 17. The Braunschweiger address book 1939 lists him at this address as Altmann, Wilhelm, vorm. Kaufmann , while the address book 1940 the entry Altmann, Wilhelm Israel, vorm. Businessman holds.
Altmann lived in Braunschweig with his wife Martha, geb. Meyer (born June 21, 1890 in Salzgitter , died August 3, 1940 in Braunschweig) most recently in the Judenhaus Hagenbrücke 6/7 . Altmann did not have a tombstone set for his late wife, as he probably needed the funds for emigration.
Altmann emigrated to Cuba on July 26, 1941. Nothing is known about his further fate. In 2012, two stumbling blocks were laid at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße 31 in Braunschweig in memory of Wilhelm and Martha Altmann .
literature
- Reinhard Bein : You lived in Braunschweig. Biographical notes on the Jews buried in Braunschweig (1797 to 1983) (= messages from the Braunschweig City Archives , No. 1). Döring Druck, Braunschweig 2009, ISBN 978-3-925268-30-4 .
- Bert Bilzer and Richard Moderhack (eds.): Brunsvicensia judaica. Memorial book for the Jewish fellow citizens of the city of Braunschweig 1933–1945. (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke; Volume 35), Braunschweig 1966, p. 154.
- Joachim Schmid: Altmann, Wilhelm . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 26 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Altmann, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman and association official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Splash |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |