Language:
German
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
Münchner Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur
Angaben zur Quelle:
6,2 (2012) 95-104
Keywords:
Aufhäuser, Martin
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jewish property
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jewish art
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Jews
Abstract:
Traces the fate of the German Jewish banker Martin Aufhäuser and his extensive art collection in the Holocaust. Aufhäuser was born in Munich in 1875, and in 1917 took over leadership of the bank that had been established by his father, dedicating himself also to welfare and to supporting German educational and cultural institutions. In 1938 Aufhäuser was arrested and interned for a while in Dachau, then forced to agree to the Aryanization of his bank, the name of which was changed from Bankhaus H. Aufhäuser to Seiler & Co. Aufhäuser's children had emigrated to England and Canada in 1937-38, and in 1939 Aufhäuser and his wife followed suit, settling first in the Netherlands and then in the U.S., where Aufhäuser died of heart failure in 1944. In 1938 most of his art collection (comprising, inter alia, 70 important oil paintings) was confiscated, as were other valuables in his posession. Only a small number of the confiscated objects were returned to the family after the war.
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