Isidor Straus

Isidor Straus ( born March 24, 1845 in Otter mountain near Kaiserslautern, † April 15, 1912 in the North Atlantic during the sinking of the Titanic ) was an American businessman and politician.

Life

Straus was born in 1845 in Otter, Germany, the son of the businessman Lazarus Straus ( 1809-1898 ) and his wife Sara ( 1823-1876 ). He had three younger siblings: Hermine (1846-1922), Nathan (1848-1931) and Oscar Solomon Straus ( 1850-1926 ). 1853 emigrated with his family to the United States and settled in Talbotton, Georgia, down, where Lazarus Straus opened a shop. Straus came in 1874 in the possession of the crockery department of the department store RH Macy in New York. Isidor Straus was in 1888, with his brother Nathan part owner of the department store.

Isidor Straus was also in the years 1894-1895 for the Democratic member of the House of Representatives. In 1871 he married Rosalie Ida Blun ( 1849-1912 ), who was also of German descent. Together they had seven children ( however, one of the sons died in infancy ):

  • Jesse Isidor Straus (1872-1936), married Irma Nathan (1877-1970)
  • Clarence Elias Straus (1874-1876) died as an infant
  • Percy Selden Straus (1876-1944) married Edith Abraham (1882-1957)
  • Sara Straus (1878-1960) married Dr. Alfred Fabian Hess (1875-1933)
  • Minnie Straus (1880-1940), married Richard Weil (1876-1918)
  • Herbert Nathan Straus (1881-1933), married Therese Kuhn (1884-1977)
  • Vivian Straus (1886-1974), married Dr. Herbert Adolph Sheftel (1875-1914) and George Dixon, Jr. (1891-1956)

On the Titanic

On 10 April 1912 Isidor Straus went along with his wife Ida and two employees as a First Class passenger aboard the luxury liner Titanic. They lived in the neighboring suite of John Jacob Astor and his wife Madeleine. When the ship collided on April 14 at 23:40 clock with an iceberg, the couple went to the lifeboat No. 8 on the port side. Since, in contrast to the starboard side were no men aboard, Ida Straus would have had to go alone. They offered Isidor Straus, to make him an exception because he was a very elderly man, but he refused. Since Ida Straus decided refused to leave her husband, put the boat on without it. Some saw this couple sitting on deck chairs later, another apparently on the way to his cabin. Both came in the disaster life. While in the United States have made the children of the couple on the way to New York, to obtain information about the whereabouts of their parents, Isidor Straus's body from the search ship Mackay Bennett was pulled from the Atlantic Ocean. Ida Straus's body was never found. Today a monument in New York City is reminiscent of the couple.

In the later film adaptations of the ship's destruction was Isidor Straus Roy Gordon ( sinking of the Titanic, 1953), Meier Tzelniker ( The last night of the Titanic, 1958), Gordon Whiting (SOS Titanic, 1979), Peter Haworth ( Titanic, two-part TV 1996 ) and Lew Palter ( Titanic, 1997) shown.

In the latter dive he and his wife in a short sequence at the end of the film to where they embraced both closely lying on her bed, while the water flows into the room. In a previous scene Ida's decision to stay with her husband on board the vessel, addressed, which has found entrance into most Titanic films, was cut out of James Cameron in his film version, however.

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