Max Apt

Born	16/06/1869 Poland, Opole Voivodeship, Gross Strehlitz
Died	16/12/1957 Germany, Berlin
Father	Salomon Ferdinand Apt (05/09/1833 – 07/05/1888)
Mother	Henriette (Jettel) Stern (26/03/1836 – 19/12/1905)

Notes

Max studied law and political science in Breslau, Leipzig and Berlin.

Chief executive of the corporation of the merchants of Berlin (1903-1920)

Founder of the "Deutsche Wirtschaftszeitung" (1905) and instrumental in the creation of the Berlin School of Economics.

Emissary of the Jewish community of Berlin at the Evian Conference, July 1938.

He emigrated to Great Britain in 1938-39 and returned to Germany in 1954.

Both MT and the John H. Richter collection mention that Max was a professor and died in Berlin; however each names only one of his parents.

Sources (click here for generic source information)

MT;
ckziu-strzelce.pl - gives his date of birth as 16/06/1869;
de.wikipedia.org and sztetl.org.pl - biography, both give his date of birth as 16/06/1869 and his date of death as 16/12/1957;
ancestry.com - Passenger list, gives his date of birth as 16/09/1869;
archive.org - John H. Richter collection;
juden-in-sachsen.de;
zsz1strzelce.pl - mentioned as a resident.
mappingthelives.org - 1939 census; dates of birth and death (the latter recorded as 11/12/1957; emigration to UK.

This record was last updated on 25/11/2023 at 13:25