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Goslar and Ledermann start a consultancy firm

Franz Ledermann and Hans Goslar were both from Berlin and worked together in various fields in Amsterdam.

Event

Jan. 5, 1934

52.374584 N 4.894688 E

Damrak 69/70

Amsterdam

www.delpher.nl

Advertentie van het adviesbureau van Goslar en Ledermann in het Nieuw Israelitisch Weekblad, 5 januari 1934.

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Both settled in Amsterdam with their families in late 1933. From January 1934, they worked together as consultants on economic, financial and legal matters on behalf of German Jews.[1] Initially they did so from an office building on Rokin. They placed an advertisement in the Nieuw Israelietisch Weekblad on 5 January 1934.[2] Later, they established their office in Goslar's home on Merwedeplein.[3] When the Goslar family moved, the firm moved with them.[4] Their focus included exchanging houses, mortgages and businesses in the Netherlands for manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers in Germany.[5] Furthermore, they represented companies in the British Mandate area of Palestine, such as the long-established 'Palestine Land Development Company Ltd.'[6] and the 'Industrial and Financial Corporation of Palestine Ltd.' ('Ifico').[3]

Ruth Goslar-Klee had studied ancient and modern languages, and therefore picked up Dutch quickly. She was in charge of the firm's secretariat.[7]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Zie Rian Verhoeven, Anne Frank was niet alleen: het Merwedeplein, 1933-1945, Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2019, p. 33.
  2. ^ Advertentie "Bemiddeling", Nieuw Israelietisch Weekblad, 5 januari 1934, p. 8.
  3. a, b "Palestijnsche effectenkoersen", Centraal Blad voor Israëlieten, 30 januari 1936, p. 9.
  4. ^ "Palestijnsche effectenkoersen", Centraal Blad voor Israëlieten, 1 juli1937, p. 7.
  5. ^ Advertentie “Tausch mit Deutschland”, Limburger Koerier, 4 mei 1936, p. 8.
  6. ^ Advertentie “Palestine Land Development Company Ltd.”, Nieuw Israëlitisch Weekblad, 26 februari 1937, p. .
  7. ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Getuigenverhalen Goslar: interview met Hanneli Pick-Goslar door David de Jongh en Teresien da Silva in Jeruzalem, 6 mei 2009, tijdcode 15:42:54 - 15:44:42.