Adolf Schoyer
Adolf Schoyer was a German metal trader, industrialist, and a leader of the local [Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox German Jews|Jewish Community].
Biography
Schoyer was born to an Orthodox Jewish family on August 28, 1872, in Berlin, Germany. In 1929, he succeeded :de:Kommerzienrat Norbert Levy as chairman of the Vereins Deutscher Metallhändler at the Börse Berlin which he headed until the rise of the National Socialists and their seizure of power in 1933. He also served as the chairman of the stock exchange board of the Berlin Metal Exchange and chairman of the Verein am Deutschen Edelmetallgroßhandel beteiligen Firmen. From 1925 to 1932 he was a member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. In 1938, he emigrated to England and returned in 1945. In 1946, after World War II, Schoyer became chairman of the Association of Jewish Refugees, founded in 1941 by Jewish refugees, an international organization dedicated to Holocaust survivors and refugees. In 1957, he received the Bundesverdienstkreuz.Schoyer died on June 15, 1961, in Bad Kissingen, Germany