Max Meirowsky

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Max Meirowsky, the older brother of the dermatologist Emil Meirowsky , came to Cologne from East Prussia . From 1893–1901 he founded a company near the military site in Porz for the manufacture of insulating materials ( mica , monazite and feldspar ) for the emerging electrical and motor industry.

When the company flourished, it was converted into a family company, Meirowsky AG , in 1910 , in which his brother Emil also participated.

His art collection included works by van Gogh , Renoir , Monet , Gauguin and Pissarro . In 1938 he lived in Berlin and prepared to emigrate to Switzerland. To finance his emigration, he was forced to auction his art collection at a " Jewish auction " on November 18, 1938 at the Berlin auction house HW Lange. A version of Ferdinand Hodler's song from a distance from 1914 was also sold for 2,800 Reichsmarks. [1]

On October 28, 1938, he was divorced from his wife, Amélie Paula Feldsieger, née Felsch. [2] The Bona Terra Foundation, which has been supporting young Jews who want to take up a career in agriculture since 1954, is his legacy.

In 1941, Meirowsky AG was "aryanized" as Dielektra AG and was a GmbH until January 2006 [3] .