Siegfried Arndt died in New York, never returned to #Berlin. Schneider 🧔 became president of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Industry and Commerce, died in 1977, a journalism award still bears his name. A memorial plaque at Mehringdamm 33 🏚️ remembers Arndt and Hugo Baum. #HistorischeNachbarn 🗃️

Of the Lagro family that had lived and worked at 🏚️ Belle-Alliance-Str. 92, Gerhard Lagro returned to #Berlin in 1957. He founded a textile business. #HistorischeNachbarn 🗃️

“The Art of Being Lucky.” Hardly anyone knows that the company behind Odol was “Aryanized,” bit by bit. In 1935 Ernst Schneider 🧔 received a quarter of the holding company for nothing. Nothing was returned until 1951, and not Mehringdamm 33.🏚️ #HistorischeNachbarn #Aryanization 🗃️

Restitution impossible. The company that had owned the building 🏚️ Belle-Alliance-Str. 92 was dissolved on 21 November 1946 and ceased to exist in 1948. But why? The documents 🗃️ don’t give a the reason. #HistorischeNachbarn #Restitution #Berlin #History

After the sale of the house 🏚️ and the plots the company still existed. The Baum family had disappeared from the shareholders’ list, Siegfried Arndt, by then in Lucerne, was still on it. In 1941, Ernst Schneider 🧔 changed the company’s object to asset management. #HistorischeNachbarn #Berlin 🗃️

Ernst Schneider 🧔 had been appointed managing director of Industrie-Hof Belle Alliance GmbH 🏚️ in 1926, without sole power of representation. Nearly ten years later, Arndt granted him shares in a secret agreement to protect his companies. Did Schneider honor the agreement? #HistorischeNachbarn

The Lagro & Richter perfume factory 🏭️ was closed in 1937. The Kohlensäure-Industrie and the Industrie-Hof were further “aryanized.” 🏚️ Starting in 1940, the snow chain factory employed forced labourers at Belle-Alliance-Str. 92. #HistorischeNachbarn #Berlin 🗃️

Ernst Baum, the eldest son of Hugo Baum, was forced to emigrate in March 1935, first to Switzerland and later to Brussels. His brother Günther, a gynecologist, remained in Berlin. Siegfried Arndt first went to Switzerland and then to the U.S. #HistorischeNachbarn #Aryanization 🗃️ #skystorians

We are continuing this series now in English. Some of the #HistorischeNachbarn at Belle-Alliance-Str. 92 are forced to flee #Berlin in 1933.🗃️

Kennen Sie Odol? 💧 Die Lingner-Werke stellten es her. Siegfried Arndt und die Erben von Hugo Baum erwarben 1930 die Aktien der Lingner-Werke. Ein Poolvertrag zwischen ihnen regelte ihre Interessen. Auch für das Grundstück 🏚️ Belle-Alliance-Str. 92. #HistorischeNachbarn #Berlin #skystorians 🗃️

Der Deutsche Lozon-Vertrieb 🏚️ in der Belle-Alliance-Str. 92 arbeitete erfolgreich: 10.000 Apparate in Betrieb, Zweigstellen bis Antwerpen und Stockholm, Vertragslieferant der Stadt #Berlin. Bis 1933. Dann wurden die Familie Lagro und die Gesellschafter als Juden verfolgt. #HistorischeNachbarn 🗃️

Das Haus in der Belle-Alliance-Str. 92 gehörte der Industrie-Hof Belle Alliance GmbH, deren Eigentümer wiederum Hugo Baum und Siegfried Arndt waren (über die AG für Kohlensäure-Industrie). #HistorischeNachbarn #Berlin #Geschichte #History

1922 zog die Lagro & Richter, eine Parfümeriefabrik, ins Haus. Hermann Lagro und sein Sohn Manfred waren die Inhaber. Hermann Lagro lebte auch in der Belle-Alliance-Str. 92. #HistorischeNachbarn #Berlin

Mehringdamm 33 in #Kreuzberg, bis 1947 Belle-Alliance-Straße 92. Vorn ein Wohnhaus, hinten ein Hof mit 31 Firmen. Mehrere „Arisierungen“, eine Lüge. Neu in unserer Reihe #HistorischeNachbarn
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