Windesheim (family)
The Windesheim family was a German industrial family who worked in the malt industry and grain trade in the 19th and 20th centuries. Its origins lie in Windesheim in the Rhineland, where the Jewish cemetery still reminds of the former Jewish community in Windesheim. The family was based in Erfurt, Berlin and Halle ad Saale and in the Rhineland, among others. The Windesheim'sche Malzfabrik in Arnstadt was the largest box malt house in Europe in its time. The good reputation of the company and its products contributed to the fact that the First Interest Association of German Malzfabriken GmbH had its headquarters in Arnstadt and that "Arnstadt-Malz" became a term for quality.
The family company was founded by Hermann Windesheim . Together with his brother Sally, he acquired the malt factory in Arnstadt in 1887.
Members of the Erfurt-Arnstadt family branch were Hans Windesheim and his half-sister Elisabeth Cohn. Hans Windesheim was a lawyer and notary. Because of the German Nazi rule and the pressure it exerted on people of Jewish descent, he emigrated to California shortly before the start of the war in 1939. His half-sister Elisabeth was murdered in 1943 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp .
people
- Hermann Windesheim (1838–1905), malt manufacturer and councilor
- Sally Windesheim , malt manufacturer
- Max (Marcus) Windesheim , industrialist and grain wholesaler
- Siegmund Windesheim , industrialist
- Max Windesheim (1868–1925), malt manufacturer and grain wholesaler
- Hugo Windesheim , malt manufacturer and grain wholesaler, managing director of Arnstädter Malzfabrik GmbH
Individual evidence
- ↑ Malt from Arnstadt was once a popular product
- ^ Klaus Rheinhold: Chronicle Arnstadt 704 to 2004. 1300 years of Arnstadt , part 2 and 4, Arnstadt 2004
- ↑ Andrea Kirchschlager, Ulrich Lappe, Peter Unger: Chronicle of Arnstadt: Timeline: Lexicon: Festschrift for the 1300th anniversary of the city of Arnstadt, 2003
- ↑ Annegret Schüle, educational concept for the pot & sons memorial site in Erfurt, 2007, p. 11