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Albert Katzenellenbogen (January 15, 1863 – after August 1942, murdered near Minsk) was an important German legal advisor in banking and industry who was murdered in the Holocaust because of his Jewish heritage.
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S. 63 Katzenellenbogen served on the executive boards of banks, textile companies and chemical corporations in various German cities. He was chairman of the board of Mitteldeutsche Creditbank (Commerz- und Privat-Bank in Frankfurt), among others. In 1895, he became the bank's general counsel, in 1897 a member of the board of directors, and in 1903 a member of the board of management. After Commerzbank was founded, Katzenellenbogen was a member of its Board of Managing Directors from 1929 to 1930 and then of its supervisory board until 1937. One year before the bank was Aryanized, almost two thirds (64.5%) of Frankfurt bank mandates were approved by Jewish members of the supervisory board in which Katzenellenbogen was prominent.
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S. 63 The property of the Katzenellenbogen family was Aryanized in 1940. His wife died on April 19 as a result of a stroke. Katzenellenbogen was deported from Frankfurt am Main to the Theresienstadt ghetto on August 18, 1942, and died in the Maly Trostinez Nazi extermination camp on August 25, 1942, on transport "Bc-942". Katzenellenbogen's children were Grete Helene, Marta Sofie (1897–1984) and
Stolpersteine in Frankfurt am Main (Städtische Seite)
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Albert Katzenellenbogen (January 15, 1863 – after August 1942, murdered near Minsk) was an important German legal advisor in banking and industry who was murdered in the Holocaust because of his Jewish heritage.
Early life and career
Born August 15, 1863, in Krotoszyn, Katzenellenbogen came from an influential German Jewish family whose origins are traced by American genealogist Neil Rosenstein as far back as the 15th century to RabbiMeir Katzenellenbogen Meir ben Isaac Katzenellenbogen (c. 1482 – 12 January 1565) (also, Meir of Padua, or Maharam Padua, he, מאיר בן יצחק קצנלנבויגן) was a German rabbi born in Katzenelnbogen.
Biography
Meïr ben Isaac, who was often called after ...
. He was married to Cornelia Josephine (Nelly) née Doctor. Since 1912 the couple lived in Königstein im Taunus in the "Oelmühlweg", where Albert Ullmann and Oskar Kohnstamm also lived as neighbors under the same address.
A lawyer by training, he was admitted to the bar in Frankfurt am Main in October 1891, and in July 1912 he was appointed a judicial councilor.Namen, Gesichter, Schicksale - Die 1933 zugelassenen Anwälte jüdischer Herkunft im Bezirk des OLG Frankfur(pdf; 2,9 MB)
S. 63 Katzenellenbogen served on the executive boards of banks, textile companies and chemical corporations in various German cities. He was chairman of the board of Mitteldeutsche Creditbank (Commerz- und Privat-Bank in Frankfurt), among others. In 1895, he became the bank's general counsel, in 1897 a member of the board of directors, and in 1903 a member of the board of management. After Commerzbank was founded, Katzenellenbogen was a member of its Board of Managing Directors from 1929 to 1930 and then of its supervisory board until 1937. One year before the bank was Aryanized, almost two thirds (64.5%) of Frankfurt bank mandates were approved by Jewish members of the supervisory board in which Katzenellenbogen was prominent.
Nazi persecution
When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Katzenellenbogen was persecuted due to his Jewish heritage. He was forced out of his profession and positions, obliged to renounce his admission to the bar in October 1935.Namen, Gesichter, Schicksale - Die 1933 zugelassenen Anwälte jüdischer Herkunft im Bezirk des OLG Frankfur(pdf; 2,9 MB)
S. 63 The property of the Katzenellenbogen family was Aryanized in 1940. His wife died on April 19 as a result of a stroke. Katzenellenbogen was deported from Frankfurt am Main to the Theresienstadt ghetto on August 18, 1942, and died in the Maly Trostinez Nazi extermination camp on August 25, 1942, on transport "Bc-942". Katzenellenbogen's children were Grete Helene, Marta Sofie (1897–1984) and
Adolf Katzenellenbogen
Adolf (also spelt Adolph or Adolphe, Adolfo and when Latinised Adolphus) is a given name used in German-speaking countries, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Flanders, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latin America and to a lesser extent in vari ...
(1901–1964). Adolf emigrated from Nazi Germany to America in 1939 and became the chairman of the department of fine arts at Johns Hopkins University. Grete Helene (1893–1944), daughter-in-law of Otto Berndt, did not escape and died as a forced laborer in Frankfurt am Main on March 22, 1944. The family grave is located in the main cemetery in Frankfurt. Among Katzenellenbogen's grandchildren is American professor of chemistry John Katzenellenbogen
John Albert Katzenellenbogen (born May 10, 1944) is an American Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He studies the development of novel agents for the treatment of hormone-responsive and non-responsive breast ...
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Literature
* Heinz Sturm-Godramstein: ''Juden in Königstein. Leben-Bedeutung-Schicksale.'' Königstein im Taunus, 1983. ** Hierin Anmerkung Nr. 25: Mitteilung von Herrn Dieter Berndt; ROSENSTEIN N.: The unbroken chain. New York 1976.See also
* The Holocaust * German banks * AryanizationReferences
External links
Stolpersteine in Frankfurt am Main (Städtische Seite)
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