Leo Gans
| Date of birth | August 4, 1843 |
| Place of birth | Frankfurt am Main |
| Date of death | September 14, 1935 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |
| Wikipedia link | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Gans |
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Leo Gans
- directs -
Cassella Farbwerke Mainkur
Leo Gans (1843–1935) was the son of Ludwig Aaron Gans and a chemist. He ran the Cassella Mainkur factory for decades and made it the world's largest manufacturer of synthetic dyes. With the corporate merger in 1925, Cassella became part of I.G. colors on; Gans became an honorary member of the I.G. supervisory board. Colors.
Leo Gans was an early victim of National Socialism. Because of his Jewish origins, the elderly honorary citizen of the city of Frankfurt was systematically pushed out of public life and all economic offices from 1933 onwards. He was stripped of all honors. He died isolated and humiliated in September 1935, shortly before the Nuremberg racial laws were promulgated.
Leo Gans
- Father of -
Ludwig Aaron Gans
The Jewish entrepreneur Ludwig Aaron Gans was the father of the chemist and industrialist Leo Gans. Ludwig Aaron ran the Cassella trading company and thereby laid the economic foundation for his son's later success in organic chemistry and dye production.
Frankfurter Personenlexikon
Leo Gans
- Brother -in -law -
Arthur von Weinberg
Leo Gans was the uncle of the chemist and industrialist Arthur von Weinberg (son of Leo’s sister Pauline Gans). For decades, the two ran the family business, Cassella, together and turned it into a global corporation before it was absorbed into I.G. Farben.
Leo Gans
- founded in 1870 -
Frankfurter Anilinfarbenfabrik
Leo Gans founded Gans & Leonhardt's Frankfurt aniline paint factory in 1870 together with his brother Adolf Gans and the chemist August Leonhardt. This was the direct forerunner of the large-scale industrial production of artificial dyes at Cassella in Frankfurt-Fechenheim.
Kasseler Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte
Leo Gans
- 1926-1935 member of the supervisory board -
Aufsichtsrat (Verwaltungsrat) der I.G.Farben
The Frankfurt industrialist, chemist and patron Leo Gans (long-time head of Cassella) is moving to the supervisory board of the new giant company as a result of the merger of the chemical industry. Due to his advanced age and merit, he was appointed as an honorary member of the Board of Directors (Supervisory Board). After the National Socialists came to power, Gans was gradually forced out of all of his offices and from the public because of his Jewish origins as part of the anti-Semitic exclusion policy.