Leo Smoschewer
Leo Smoschewer (March 11, 1875 – July 15, 1938, in Breslau) was a German Jewish mechanical engineering entrepreneur and art collector whose business was Aryanized and art collection seized by the Nazis. Early life Leo Smoschewer was a son of Emanuel Smoschewer, a grain wholesaler who came to Breslau from Krotoschin, and his wife Henriette Smoschewer née Reich. Smoschewer married Elise, and they lived together in a villa at Lindenallee 12 in Breslau. On March 21, 1911, Smoschewer joined the :de:Gesellschaft der Brüder, Gesellschaft der Brüder (Society of Brothers). The family belonged to the Wrocław, Breslau synagogue community, and Leo Smoschewer served on the community board from1927. Leo Smoschewer was a co-owner of Smoschewer & Co. in Breslau, a company founded in 1899 which manufactured locomotives and wagons for light railroads, road rollers and other machinery. The company had branches in Berlin, Gdansk and Prague, as well as in Romania. Smoschewer had been Romanian ...
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