12th August 1935
Abeles G.m.b.H.
Commercial cover posted in Darmstadt to Abeles G.m.b.H. in Munich. Ref: 12.08.1935 - 2/11
Max Abeles - Founder of Abeles G.m.b.H.
Abridged from gedenken9nov38.de
Max Abeles was born in 1865. He married Dorothea Abeles in Kaunowa in 1890, lived in Chiesch, and had four children.
Max Abeles found the cigarette & Tobacco factory, Abeles GmbH. Three of the sons and the son-in-law work at the company.
The Abeles company flourishes and has several branches in Munich employing 42 people.
Their son Fritz runs several branches. In 1927 he registered a small and wholesale tobacco business with the trade office and had a tobacco shop at Theatinerstrasse 52, which was later joined by two branches at Dachauerstrasse 5 and Schillerstrasse 36.
Fritz Abeles' tobacco shop on Theatinerstrasse achieved annual sales of over 100,000 marks in 1936. In the summer of 1938, Fritz tried to sell the business which was rejected by the 'Working Group for Jewish Affairs' under the leadership of the IHK for supposedly 'economic reasons'. During Kristallnacht the shop was demolished and officially closed on 10th November.
In 1939, the business and the inventory were taken over by Hans Lorenz at a far lower value, so that Fritz Abeles only had 4,022 marks left at the end of the year.
During 1938 Abeles-GmbH at Lindwurmstrasse 125 tried to find a buyer, without success. After Kristallnacht the company ceased operations. Eugen Abeles is appointed liquidator. On 16th November, Abeles GmbH was deregistered.
Later, the property, Lindwurmstrasse 125, would become the last refuge of the Israelite religious community.
In the summer of 1940, Max and Dorothea Abeles were evicted', as the cynical term was called at the time. They moved from Sendling to Leopoldstr. to Schwabing in a so-called 'Jewish house', where they have to live crammed together with over 50 fellow sufferers.
In November 1941, Max and Dorothea Abeles were forced into the Clemens-August-Straße internment camp in Berg am Laim and in February 1942 into the Milbertshofen barracks camp at Knorrstraße 148.
On 17th June, 1942, Max Abeles and his wife Dorothea were deported to Theresienstadt. On 19th September both were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp and murdered there; Dora is 75 years old, Max would have been 77 two days later.
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