Life

After the study of philosophy, literature history and history of art in Freiburg i.Br. and Munich was from 1914 to 1919 Kavallerieoffizier of the German realm Reich. 1919 it occurred the Magdeburger machine tool factory and ascended up to the attorney. The Magdeburger machine tool factory bought the machine tool factory Oerlikon, whose managing director became in the subsequent year to 1923. In the same year the removal took place to Zurich. 1929 became majority shareholder of the machine tool factory Oerlikon and in the year of 1936 sole owners of the company (late Oerlikon getting thing AG). Likewise in the year 1936 accepted those Swiss nationality.

From the 1920 closed marriage with Charlotte Schalk follow two children. The following donations are to be due to Emil G. "“Emil donation for the Swiss bibliography"” (1943), "“Goethe donation for art and science"” (1944) and the Stifung cultivation art gallery Zurich (1954).

as a Industrieller

Emil George role as a Industrieller is disputed and in the past decades was differently evaluated. On the one hand it converted the machine tool factory Oerlikon standing before the bankruptcy into a flourishing enterprise; on the other hand arms production and armament export are always morally at pressure. The "“independent expert commission Switzerland - the Second World War"” employed for this detailed investigations and made evaluations. Thus republican Spain became before the Second World War (thus Francos opponent) and the independent Abessinien (in the colonial war against fascist Italy) exactly the same supplies, like the Baltic countries, Czechoslovakia, Greece, China, Turkey, France, Holland and England. In the time of 1940 - 1944 (Switzerland was in the meantime completely enclosed from fascist States of (Italy, Germany) and fascist-occupied countries (Austria, France)) supplied with the company Oerlikon at the request of the Swiss government also to weapons at Germany and Italy. Here it exclusively concerned air defense cannons and accessories. Of the independent Expertenkommision these weapon supplies are not war-extending classified as not war-crucially and/or.

as art collecting tanks

first acquisitions were 1920 two water colors of Erich Heckel. 1924 a picture of Maurice de Vlaminck followed. The actual structure of the collection began however only at 1934, when the financial possibilities were accordingly given. was advised starting from 1938 among other things by the Galeristen Fritz Nathan. The collecting tank acquired the largest part of its collection (ca,75%) in the time of 1946 to 1956. The collection covered beside antique ones, medieval plastics and paintings of old masters above all pictures of the French Impressionismus and the classical modern trend. continued here thus as the collecting tanks Oskar pure-hard in the neighbouring Winterthur, in whose collection pictures are missing for instance from Kokoschka and Matisse. Two thirds of the collection were brought to 1960 by inheriting into the donation collection E.G. and are since then accessible to the public. Also the works of art remained in the family estate were again and again shown in exhibitions. With an exhibition with works of the collection 1990 in Washington D.C. it to protests and discussions came in the media because of role as a weapon exporter in the Second World War and the partial not completely clarified origin of the pictures from before times Jewish possession. Also to this question there was a "“independent expert commission Switzerland - the Second World War"”. had to return 13 paintings from French-Jewish possession after the Second World War to the old owners.

Literature

• More brightly, Daniel: Between employers, politics and surviving. Emil G. and the machine tool factory Oerlikon, & CO. 1924 - 1945
• Esther Tisa Francini, Anja Heuss, George circle: Escape property - robbery property. The transfer of cultural properties into and over Switzerland 1933-1945 and the question of the restitution
• Peter Hug: Swiss armaments industry and war material trade at present the national socialism: Enterprise strategies - market tendency - political monitoring
• Catalog Washington D.C.: The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and OTHER master Paintings from the E.G. Collection
• Donation collection E.G. Catalog I - III

Related links

• http://www.buehrle.ch/ donation collection E.G.
• http://www.uek.ch/de/ independent expert commission Switzerland - the Second World War

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