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Herbert August Frank

Herbert Frank was the youngest brother of Otto Frank.

Person

Fotograaf onbekend. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting Amsterdam
  • Herbert August Frank
  • Born on: Oct. 31, 1891
  • Born in: Frankfurt am Main, Duitsland
  • Died on: March 20, 1987

Foto van Otto Frank (rechts) met v.l.n.r. zijn broers en zus Herbert, Robert en Helène, 1911

Fotograaf onbekend. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting Amsterdam

Publiek Domein

Herbert Frank was the youngest brother of Otto Frank.[1] He married the American Hortense Rah Schott, who lived in Aachen, on 12 April 1922. The marriage was dissolved on 16 August 1932.[2] In April 1932 Herbert was arrested for a transaction that violated the regulations for trading securities with foreign countries that had been in force since 1931. When he was released on 14 May 1932, he left for Paris. He informed the court that he was suffering material and mental harm because of how long the case has dragged on.[3]  Herbert stayed in France for about twenty years. During the war, he ended up in a camp for stateless refugees in Gurs. In 1955, he joined his family in Switzerland.[4]

Source personal data.[5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne refers to him as Herbi. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 14 October 1942, 1st, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. ^ Mirjam Pressler, "Groeten en liefs aan allen". Het verhaal van de familie van Anne Frank, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2010, p. 128.
  3. ^ "Die verschobene Million", Die Neueste Zeitung, 12 oktober 1932.
  4. ^ Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (NIOD) (samenst.), De dagboeken van Anne Frank, 5e, verb. en uitgebr. dr., Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2001, p. 4.
  5. ^ Melissa Müller, Anne Frank. De biografie, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1998, p. 301.