Willy Jacobsohn

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Willy Jacobsohn , naturalized in the USA as Willy Jacobson ( January 6, 1884 in Stolp - February 4, 1963 in Los Angeles ) was a German chemist and manager.

Life

After training as a pharmacist , Willy Jacobsohn studied chemistry and natural sciences at the universities in Munich and Berlin. In 1909 he was with his dissertation On certain derivatives of adrenaline Dr. rer. nat. PhD. After working in a smaller company in the pharmaceutical industry, he joined Beiersdorf GmbH in Hamburg in 1914 , which was in a rapid growth phase under Oscar Troplowitz and his co-partner Otto Hanns Mankiewicz . At the end of the First World War, he was one of the company's four managing directors, responsible for its laboratory and the company's foreign activities. With the change of legal form to a stock corporation, which became necessary after the death of Oscar Troplowitz, Jacobsohn became General Director (CEO) of Beiersdorf AG. He led Beiersdorf AG until 1933. During this time, further expansion in Hamburg took place with the expansion of many plants and factories in Hamburg and the safeguarding of the company's international business. In 1933, under pressure from the National Socialists, he resigned along with the other Jewish board members and supervisory boards. In 1934 he took over the management of the international activities of Beiersdorf AG from Amsterdam in the Netherlands until, after the annexation of Austria , there was reason to emigrate to the USA because of the threat of war. Carl Claussen , who was married to one of the Troplowitz heiresses, took over as CEO in Hamburg in 1933 . Jacobsohn retired at the age of 54, which was paid for by the Beiersdorf Group's foreign subsidiaries, and lived in Los Angeles until his death. He was buried in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City .

literature

  • Frank Bajohr : "Aryanization" in Hamburg: The Economic Exclusion of Jews and the Confiscation of Their Property in Nazi Germany , Berghahn Books, 2002, p. 22 ff.
  • Geoffrey G. Jones , Christina Lubinski: Willy Jacobsohn and Beiersdorf: Managing Expropriation and Anti-Semitism. Harvard Business School Case 811-060, April 2011. (Revised September 2011.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Brigitte Haidenhain: Jews in Schwedt: their life in the city from 1672 to 1942 and their cemetery , Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2010, p. 137, according to the Reich citizenship list , Schwedt / Oder can also be considered as the place of birth (or the place of birth of his wife).
  2. ↑ Birth and Death Anniversaries according to US, Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 , accessed January 25, 2017 from ancestry.com
  3. ^ Campaign against "Juden-Creme" in Die Tageszeitung from October 18, 2003
  4. ↑ Geoffrey G. Jones : Entrepreneurship and Multinationals , Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013, pp. 147 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Jacobsohn, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobson, Willy; Jacobson, Willie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Stumble
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1963
Place of death los Angeles