Neckermann Nuremberg

In this house, Karl Amson Joel opened a mail order company for home textiles and upholstery in 1928. Karl Joel was a Jewish man and was therefore forced to sell his company to Josef Neckermann in 1938 at far below the market price. He never received the agreed 2.3 million German marks.

Karl Joel fled with his wife and son to Switzerland and later to the United States. After the Second World War, Karl Joel succeeded in recovering 2 million German marks from the Neckermann company after years of litigation.

In 1964 he returned with his wife to Nuremberg where he died in 1982.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Koos Winkelman