Wilhelm von Kaufmann
Wilhelm Ritter von Kaufmann-Asser (born May 16, 1888 in Berlin ; † October 21, 1959 there ) was a German doctor and film producer .
Life
Born in Berlin, the son of the art collector and secret councilor in the finance ministry Richard von Kaufmann , had studied medicine in his hometown after attending a humanistic grammar school and graduated with the state examination. As a licensed doctor, he initially ran his own practice and later became head of the Wiggers Kurheim sanatorium in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . His brother was the diplomat Heinrich von Kaufmann-Asser .
Shortly after the end of the First World War, he met the silent film star Henny Porten and married her on June 24, 1921. Kaufmann temporarily stopped working as a doctor and became head of his wife's production company, Henny-Porten-Film GmbH Berlin . In the following ten years (until 1931), in which Henny Porten was able to boast a considerable number of film successes, Kaufmann took on the role of producer or production manager.
As a result of the takeover by the National Socialists, Wilhelm von Kaufmann was banned from working as a “ half-Jew ”. Despite pressure from the Goebbels authorities on his wife, Henny Porten persistently refused to divorce Kaufmann until the end and had to accept a considerable slump in his career.
After the end of the war, Dr. med. von Kaufmann in Ratzeburg in the Schleswig-Holstein province again as a doctor, in a makeshift hospital for East German refugees, at times with his wife, who is underemployed as an actress, as an assistant. Back in Berlin since 1957, the couple lived in extremely difficult economic circumstances for the rest of their lives.
Wilhelm von Kaufmann died in Berlin in 1959 at the age of 71. He was buried in the crypt of the Kaufmann family in the basement of the cemetery chapel on the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Charlottenburg (today's district of Berlin-Westend ). His parents Richard (1849–1908) and Marie von Kaufmann b. Eltzbacher (1860–1934) found her final resting place. Later his wife Henny Porten (1890–1960) and his sister Emilie Rintelen nee were also born in the same place. buried by Kaufmann (1884–1970). Only a simple inscription panel with an ornamental frame on the south wall of the chapel reminds of the dead of the Kaufmann family.
Filmography
- 1921: back stairs
- 1921: The Geierwally
- 1921: sacrifice of women
- 1922: You and the three
- 1923: Inge Larsen
- 1924: chamber music
- 1925: The adventure of Sybille Brant
- 1925: tragedy
- 1926: The flames lie
- 1927: Violantha
- 1927: My aunt - your aunt
- 1927: The big break
- 1928: love and thieves
- 1928: Lotte
- 1928: Refuge
- 1928: love in the cowshed
- 1929: Mother's love
- 1929: The mistress and her servant
- 1930: Eva scandal
- 1930: Kohlhiesel's daughters
- 1931: 24 hours from a woman's life
- 1931: Luise, Queen of Prussia
literature
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 395.
- Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films , Berlin 1926, p. 93
Web links
- Wilhelm von Kaufmann at filmportal.de
- Wilhelm von Kaufmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 475–476, 479.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaufmann, Wilhelm von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaufmann-Asser, Wilhelm Ritter von (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1959 |
| Place of death | Berlin |