Arthur von Weinberg [SEP] place of birth
Arthur von Weinberg
Arthur von Weinberg (11 August 1860 in Frankfurt am Main – 20 March 1943 in the Theresienstadt Ghetto) was a German chemist and industrialist.
He was a co-owner of Cassella and later a co-founder, co-owner and member of the supervisory board and the administrative board of IG Farben. He was also a prominent philanthropist in Frankfurt. He founded the Arthur von Weinberg Foundation in 1909, was director of the Senckenberg Nature Research Society and was a co-founder of the Goethe
then named. Ludwig Aaron Gans was the father of the major industrialist Friedrich Ludwig von Gans, who was ennobled in 1912, and of the chemist and industrialist Leo Gans. The family converted from Judaism to Protestantism in the late 19th century.
Literature.
- Angela von Gans, Monika Groening: "Die Familie Gans 1350–1963." Verlag Regionalkultur, Heidelberg, 2006,
- Monika Groening: "Leo Gans und Arthur von Weinberg. Mäzenatentum und jüdische Emanzipation" (Biographiereihe der Goethe Universität: Gründer, Gönner und