Born:

October 29, 1906, Lüdenscheid

Died:

February 28, 1945

A German businessman who, during World War II, saved about 1,000 Jews from being murdered in the Nazi extermination camps and was himself deported in 1944.

Mentioned in

• Site of Transmigration and Long-time Diasporic Centre: The Netherlands as a Home to German-speaking Jews (Sietske van der Veen)