Hugo Gutmann
Life
Gutmann's parents were Solomon and Emma Gutmann. His father had founded in 1878 a factory for office furniture facilities. Hugo's older brother Ludwig Gutmann ( born January 16, 1877 in Nuremberg) was married to Lily Pure man and had the son Fritz Gutmann ( born February 26, 1911), who lived in the U.S. since 1945.
Gutmann did an apprenticeship at Bankhaus Anton Kohn. His military service made Gutmann from October 1902 as one-year volunteer at the 8th Field Artillery Regiment of the Bavarian Army in Nuremberg. He was promoted to sergeant in July and released into the reserve in late September 1903. Reserve and Landwehr exercises he graduated in June / July 1904 August / September 1907 and June / July 1911.
At the beginning of the First World War he joined on August 5, 1914 in the First Department of the Bavarian Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 6 ( under the command of Colonel Maximilian Ebermayer and Lieutenant Colonel Hans Boelk ) and was promoted on November 1st Vice sergeant. On January 13, 1915, he was as Adjutant in the III. ( Even regiment List RIR 16) puts Battalion of the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16 and promoted to lieutenant on 15 April of the Landwehr. When he was in 1918 Regimentsadjudant of RIR 16 from the end of January, he was represented from May to mid- August by Lieutenant Oskar Döpping and Lieutenant Bruno horn.
On December 2, 1914, he was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class and on 4 December 1915 at the initiative of Anton Freiherr von Tubeuf, with the Iron Cross First Class. He advocated that Adolf Hitler, who had served from January 29 to August 31, 1918 under it, was decorated on August 4, 1918 near Soissons with the Iron Cross First Class. As of February 8, 1919 he was a lieutenant of the reserve.
On January 6, 1920, he married Mathilde Friedmann ( 1896-1982 ), the daughter of Joseph and Hermine Friedmann ( 1871-1943 ). They had besides a daughter 's son Heinz Werner (later Charles Howard, September 6, 1922 *, † February 19, 2010 in Park Ridge [Illinois ]; classmate of the later U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ).
Together with his brother, he took over his father's company " office equipment company Salomon Gutmann " in the Nuremberg Middle Sterngasse 3 that rose over time to one of the large companies operating throughout Germany office equipment and office furniture companies.
From the spring of 1933 he received a pension as a war veteran. After the Nuremberg Laws in September 1935, he lost his German citizenship and was deleted from the Veterans roll - but kept his pension.
In July 1937 he was arrested by the Gestapo because of his relationship with Joseph E. Drexel. The police sergeant major Nicholas Rieger (* March 2, 1898; † November 9, 1982 in Unterdietfurt ) from Rennweg 38 took care of Gutmann. Because of Gutmann's relationship to a general Bergmann and the intervention of his former regimental comrade Josef Meyerhofer at Frederick Wiedemann, he was released again.
The end of 1938, he fled with his family to Belgium, in 1940 further to Portugal on 14 May 1940, she emigrated over France with the last train via Lisbon (28 August 1940) at the Excalibur in the U.S., where he located in 605 Clara Ave. , St. Louis, settled, renamed Henry G. Grant and worked for the typewriter factory Underwood Elliott Fisher.
Until July 1942 Hugo Gutmann remained at Underwood, then he moved in the furniture industry. Hugo Gutmann's daughter studied in 1946 at Washington University in St. Louis.