Siegfried Schwarzschild was a merchant and, until 1930, partner in a wholesale metals and metallurgical-products business. He later operated a travel bureau on Koenigstrasse in Stuttgart with two employees, was forced to give up that business because he was Jewish by the end of 1938, and subsequently operated the Jewish emigration office's travel bureau through 22 April 1941.

Evidence

S-025 image 0090 contains the compensation authority's occupational findings. Image 0086 independently reports the Israelite community's recollection that his Koenigstrasse travel bureau operated successfully. Images 0005-0074 are surviving bank ledgers, and counsel's images 0133-0136 connect account 44613 to Siegfried and account 44111 to the Jewish emigration office travel bureau. The authority accepted persecution-related occupational loss but did not accept counsel's requested higher earnings classification.

People

Siegfried Schwarzschild

Places

Stuttgart, Württemberg

Family lines

Fellheim–Laupheim Einstein

Supporting sources

Siegfried Schwarzschild restitution file

Contrary sources

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What remains uncertain

The wholesale firm's name, the travel bureau's founding date, and his exact pre-persecution income are not established. Counsel inferred that commercial representation was prohibited in July 1940 and argued for higher earnings; the authority found annual pre-persecution income of RM 7,200 unproved.