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Hermann van Pels & Wolff

The Hermann van Pels & Wolff trading company was established in Hamburg.

Subject

The firm Hermann van Pels & Wolff was based in Hamburg and had been engaged in importing exotic raw materials for the food industry, such as gum arabic, copal and medicinal herbs, since 1919.[1] The trade goods thus consisted of the kind of products that years later Pectacon and Gies & Co. would also deal with. Hermann van Pels was the co-owner,[2] with his brother Max.[3] Hermann lived in Hamburg from 1917 for an unknown length of time. When he left the firm is not known. Max disposed of his share in the business in 1938.[4]

Hermann van Pels & Wolff went through various mergers and acquisitions to become a larger entity, which still exists as Wiechers & Helm. The Wiechers & Helm company has no records from the time the Van Pels brothers were active with their business.[5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Zie http://www.wiechers-helm.de/hc-history.html (geraadpleegd oktober 2014).
  2. ^ Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv - Standort Hannover, Nds. 110W, Acc. 70/95, Nr. 540: Götz Mercker aan 'Entschädigungsbehörde', 27 april 1970, naar verklaring van Ida van Pels.
  3. ^ Amtliches Fernsprechbuch für den Reichspostdirektionsbezirk Hamburg, 1934.
  4. ^ Frank Bajohr, "Aryanisation" in Hamburg. The economic exclusion of Jews and the confiscation of their property in Nazi Germany, New York, NY: Berghahn 2002, p. 270 (noot 194).
  5. ^ E-mail dr. Helmut Kruse van Wiecher & Helm aan Gertjan Broek (Anne Frank Stichting), 13 febuari 2017.