Martin Thurnauer Collection 1933-1998 Bulk date: 1933

This collection primarily consists of correspondence, reports, and other documents concerning the confiscation (“Aryanization”) in 1933 of the ceramics firm Steatit Magnesia AG (Stemag). Martin Thurnauer sat on the board of directors and was one of the main business persons in Stemag, and was pushed out of the firm by the local Nazi party.This collection also contains some personal documents relating to Martin Thurnauer, such as correspondence about Thurnauer's expulsion in 1933 from a hiking and a sports club, documents about the death of Martin's father Bernhard Thurnauer, and photographs of Thurnauer family gravestones.Martin Thurnauer (1894-1974) was born in Nuremberg to Bernhard (1855-1936) and Josefine Rudolph Thurnauer. (His mother was born in Sitka, Alaska to Martin Rudolph.) Martin Thurnauer was married to Helene (Leni, née Franc), and had two daughters, Stephanie Weiss and Lieselotte (Lilo) Hoffmann. Thurnauer was a businessman in the ceramic company Steatit Magnesia. In 1933, he and the others Jews were forced out of the firm, and he fled to the USA in early 1934. He and his family settled in New Jersey.Processeddigitize