Who was a Jewish businessman responsible for starting a company dealing with medial equipment after leaving Germany sometime between 1933-1945?
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Rolf Schild Rolf Schild OBE (1924 - 2003), was a German-born, British-based businessman, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who formed the company Huntleigh Technology, based in Luton, which manufactured and designed medical equipment.
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Nazi Germany Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was governed by a dictatorship under the control of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP). Under Hitler's rule, Germany was transformed into a totalitarian state in which the Nazi Party controlled nearly all aspects of life. The official name of the state was "Deutsches Reich" from 1933 to 1943 and "Großdeutsches Reich" ("Greater German Reich") from 1943 to 1945. The period is also known under the names the Third Reich (German: "Drittes Reich" ) and the National Socialist Period (German: "Zeit des Nationalsozialismus" , abbreviated as "NS-Zeit"). The Nazi regime came to an end after the Allied Powers defeated Germany in May 1945, ending World War II in Europe.
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Wolfram Sievers Wolfram Sievers (10 July 1905 – 2 June 1948) was "Reichsgeschäftsführer", or managing director, of the Ahnenerbe from 1935 to 1945.
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Haavara Haavara "(Transfer)" Ltd. was a company founded as a result of the Haavara Agreement made during the Nazi regime's control over Germany. The company facilitated the emigration of approximately 50,000 Jews from Germany to Palestine.
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Leica Camera Leica Camera AG is a German company that manufactures optics and high end cameras. The company was founded by Ernst Leitz in 1924. The name Leica is derived from the first three letters of his surname (Leitz) and the first two of the word camera: lei-ca.
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Julius Fromm Julius Fromm (4 March 1883 – 12 May 1945) was a German entrepreneur of Polish-Jewish descent, a chemist and inventor of a process for making condoms from liquefied rubber.
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Rudolf Miele Rudolf Miele (November 4, 1929, in Gütersloh, Westphalia – August 19, 2004, in Gütersloh) was a German entrepreneur. From 1960 he was acting partner of the household accessory manufacturer "Miele". He was the grandson of the Miele founder Carl Miele.
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SieMatic SieMatic is a German kitchen manufacturer. The company was founded in 1929 and has its headquarters in Löhne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It delivers its products to over 60 countries worldwide. SieMatic is considered among the most well-known German luxury brands. Since 1998, Ulrich W. Siekmann has been Managing Director of SieMatic, the third generation of his family to run the company.
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Herbert Felix Herbert Felix (1908 - 1973) was a Swedish entrepreneur of Austrian-Jewish descent and the founder of the food companies AB Felix and Felix Austria.
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Semi Joseph Begun Semi Joseph Begun (December 2, 1905 in Germany – January 5, 1995), usually referred to as S. Joseph Begun, was a German-American engineer and inventor.
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Cine-Allianz Cine-Allianz Tonfilm was a German film production company established in 1932 by Arnold Pressburger and Gregor Rabinovitch. The company specalised in co-productions targeted at international markets, and enjoyed immediate success during the final year of the Weimar Republic. During the Nazi era the company's Jewish owners came under increasing pressure from the government and their property was expropriated. They were forced into exile, while Cine-Allianz continued to produce films under the Nazi regime until its merger with UFA in 1942.
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Paul Reichmann Paul (Moshe Yosef) Reichmann (Hebrew: משה יוסף רייכמן‎ ‎ ‎; 27 September 1930 – 25 October 2013) was a Canadian businessman and member of the Reichmann family. He is best known for his leadership of the Olympia & York real estate development company.
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Gideon Bickel Gideon Bickel (Hebrew: גדעון ביקל‎ ‎ ; Born May 12, 1944) is an Israeli businessman, mainly involve with strategy and execution of programs in agriculture and food production to developing countries and Large corporations. Bickel promoted peace between Israel and its neighbors through agricultural assistance. Bickel was the owner of Flora Stock Exchange in Belgium, was chairman and owner of Carmel Agrexco, and he is engaged in real estate.
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Paul Pietzschke Paul Pietzschke, or Paul Pietzschke NautiChem, is a German corporation that produces sealants, coatings and lubricants for shipbuilding. Its main office is in Norderstedt, North Germany. It was founded by Paul Pietzschke in 1889 in Hamburg, Germany, as a chemical and technology company.
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Telefunken Telefunken was a German radio and television apparatus company, founded in Berlin in 1903, as a joint venture of Siemens & Halske and the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) ("General electricity company").
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Michael Federmann Michael Ilan Yoel Federmann, known as Mikey, (born in 1943) is an Israeli businessman and self-made billionaire, in charge of Elbit Systems and the Dan Hotels group. Under his leadership Elbit Systems multiplied its size many times and became a major player in the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle market globally as well as in other areas of military defence technology.
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Tillig Tillig ("TILLIG Modellbahnen GmbH & Co. KG") is a German model railroad manufacturing company based in Sebnitz, Saxony. Tillig is the largest manufacturer of TT scale model railroad products in the world. Previously known as Zeuke (founded in 1949 by Werner Zeuke together with Helmut Wegwerth) and then as VEB Berliner TT-Bahnen (after the company was nationalized in 1972), the company was renamed Tillig in 1993 when, in bankruptcy, the company was purchased by Jurgen Tillig.
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Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche (] , Hebrew: יוסף אליהו שלוש‎ ‎ , 1870 – 23 July 1934) was one of the founders of Tel Aviv, an entrepreneur, businessman and industrialist.
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Scherk (company) Scherk was a cosmetics company in Berlin, Germany founded by Ludwig Scherk (1880–1946). In Nazi Germany 1938 he was forced to sell it for a low price for Aryanization because he was Jewish. His son Fritz Scherk (1918–1995) bought it back and started a new production in West Berlin in 1951. In 1969 he sold it to the Alberto-Culver Company.
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Gräf &amp; Stift Gräf & Stift was an Austrian manufacturer of automobiles, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, from 1902 until 2001, latterly as a subsidiary of MAN. Founded in 1902 by the brothers Franz, Heinrich and Karl Gräf, and the investor, Wilhelm Stift. Before the Second World War, the company was a well-known manufacturer of luxury automobiles, including the Double Phaeton that carried Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, when they were assassinated in Sarajevo in June 1914. By the 1930s Gräf & Stift had begun making trucks and buses, and it ceased car manufacturing in 1938. The company merged with Österreichische Automobil Fabriks-AG (ÖAF) in 1971, becoming ÖAF-Gräf & Stift AG, and later the same year was taken over by MAN AG. It continued in business as a subsidiary of MAN, and the Gräf & Stift name remained in use as a MAN brand for the Austrian market and for trolleybuses until 2001, when ÖAF-Gräf & Stift AG was renamed MAN Sonderfahrzeuge AG. It was located in Vienna, and the production facilities continue in use there, but no longer using the Gräf & Stift name.
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Efi Arazi Efraim R. "Efi" Arazi (Hebrew: אפי ארזי‎ ‎ ) (14 April 1937 – 14 April 2013) was an Israeli businessman.
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Michael Otto (businessman) Michael Otto (born 12 April 1943, in Chełmno (Kulm) in Nazi-occupied Poland), is the head of German Otto Group, the world's largest mail order company, with US$24 billion in sales in fiscal year 2003. Thanks to a 30% rise in Internet sales last year, Otto also maintains its position as the Web's second-biggest retailer, behind Amazon.com.