Albert Katzenellenbogen

Albert Katzenellenbogen (born January 15, 1863, in Krotoschin; died 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.

Commemorative "Stolperstein" Neue Mainzer Str. 32 Katzenellenbogen Dr. Albert

Life

Katzenellenbogen came from a family whose origins are traced by an American genealogist as far back as the 15th century and named after their German place of origin. 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.[1]

Katzenellenbogen served on the executive boards of banks, textile companies and chemical corporations in various German cities. As chairman of the board, he guided the fortunes 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.[2] 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.

Nazi persecution

When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Katzenellenbogen persecuted due to his Jewish heritage.He was obliged to renounce his admission to the bar in October 1935.[1]

The property of the Katzenellenbogen family was Aryanized, that is transferred to non-Jews, in 1940.[3]

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 perished in the Maly Trostinez extermination camp on August 25, 1942, on transport "Bc-942.[4]

Katzenellenbogen's children were Grete Helene, Marta Sofie (1897-1984) and the art historian Adolf Katzenellenbogen (1901-1964).[5] Their daughter Grete Helene (1893-1944),[6] daughter-in-law of Otto Berndt, died as a forced laborer in Frankfurt am Main on March 22, 1944. The family grave is located in the main cemetery in Frankfurt.

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.

References
  1. Namen, Gesichter, Schicksale - Die 1933 zugelassenen Anwälte jüdischer Herkunft im Bezirk des OLG Frankfurt (pdf; 2,9 MB), S. 63
  2. "Katzenellenbogen". www.maerkische-landsitze.de. Retrieved 2022-02-10. Ludwig Katzenellenbogen gehörte zu den einflussreichsten Männern der deutschen Wirtschaft. Er saß in mehreren Aufsichtsräten von Industrieunternehmen und Banken. Seinen Einfluss verwirklichte er über ein Netzwerk familiärer und geschäftlicher Art. Max Katzenellenbogen übte Leitungsfunktionen innerhalb des Konzerns aus, Ludwigs Vetter Albert war Vorstandsmitglied der Mitteldeutschen Creditbank. Nach deren Übernahme durch die Commerzbank wechselte Albert Katzenellenbogen in deren Aufsichtsrat. Auch mit den Unternehmerfamilien Landau und Sobernheim stand Ludwig Katzenellenbogen sowohl verwandtschaftlich als auch geschäftlich in enger Verbindung.
  3. Huber, Kilian; Lindenthal, Volker; Waldinger, Fabian (2021-09-01). "Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance: Evidence from "Aryanizations" in Nazi Germany". Journal of Political Economy. 129 (9): 2455–2503. doi:10.1086/714994. ISSN 0022-3808.
  4. "Albert Katzenellenbogen | Database of victims | Holocaust". www.holocaust.cz. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  5. admin (2018-02-21). "Katzenellenbogen, Adolf". Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  6. "Grete Helene Berndt". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
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