Paul Hartog
Paul Julius Hartog was a German Jewish banker and art collector murdered in the Holocaust.
Life
Paul Hartog came from a Jewish family; his father was a banker in Aachen and his mother mother was born in Hanau.Hartog trained at Bankhaus Gustav Hanau in Mülheim/Ruhr and then worked at Disconto-Bank in Breslau. He was later elected Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Darmstädter Bank.
In 1917, in the middle of the First World War, Hartog founded the private bank named after him, Hartog & Co. in Berlin, of which he was also the owner. He was also a member of several supervisory boards; as chairman of the supervisory board, he managed the Berlin-based stock corporations Adler Phonograph AG and Orchestrola-Vocalion AG.
Paul Hartog was a member of the Kaiser Friedrich Museumsverein, whose purpose was to promote the Gemäldegalerie and the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Hartog married Gertrude Katz (née Trude, daughter of Hannover banker Simon Katz.
Nazi-era persecution
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Hartog was persecuted due to his Jewish heritage. In a 1935 “Aryanization”, Hartog was forced out of the bank because of only Aryans or non-Jews were allowed, in accordance with Nazi racial laws”.On 7 July 1942 Paul Hartog was deported from Berlin to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where he was murdered after five months on 16 December 1942.