Julius Fromm

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Julius Fromm
Born(1883-08-17)17 August 1883
Konin, Kingdom of Poland
Died12 May 1945(1945-05-12) (aged 62)
London, United Kingdom
CitizenshipPoland, Germany
Occupation(s)Chemist and businessman

Julius Fromm (4 March 1883 – 12 May 1945) was a

rubber gloves and hot water bottles. Owing to his Jewish heritage, his company and personal property was stolen by the Nazis in aryanization
when he left Germany for England in 1939. His legacy was not easily reclaimed by his relatives after the war however.

Biography

Fromm was born in the town of Konin, Kalisz Governorate, the Kingdom of Poland.[1] His parents were both Polish Jews and when Julius was ten years old his family left for Berlin in search of a better life.[1] There, the family made a living by rolling cigarettes as many Eastern European Jews of Berlin did at the time. Julius's parents died young, so he was forced to take care of himself and his six siblings from the age of fifteen. As mechanization gradually replaced manual production, Fromm started attending evening classes in chemistry.

With

contraceptive, because it feared a further decrease of the birth rate
. The company also made baby bottle nipples and
rubber gloves
by dipping formers into a rubber solution.

Nazi period

Göring in captivity 9 May 1945

In 1938, however, under

grand piano
, plates, and his library had already been bought or stolen before.

Fromms' factory in Köpenick was almost completely destroyed by Allied Air raids, the remaining machinery was shipped to the Soviet Union, as it lay in the Soviet sector of Berlin. The Friedrichshagen factory continued to produce condoms, especially for the Red Army. The factories would have been returned to Fromm's family according to the Potsdam Agreement, however the company was nationalized by the Communist government.[7]

In East Germany, Fromms condoms were produced by the Volkseigener Betrieb "Plastina", the brand was renamed to "Mondos".[7]

In West Germany, Julius Fromm's son

Entjudung" (de-jewification) to a victim of the National Socialist regime.[7] Herbert Fromm licensed a Bremen
company to produce Fromms condoms, which—now called Mapa—produces them to the present day.

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Julius Fromm na mapie. Korzystajmy z tego, że wrócił".
  2. ISBN 978-1-59102-556-6
    .
  3. ^ Collier, p.148.
  4. ^ "Rubbers haven't always been made of rubber". Billy Boy: The excitingly different condom. Archived from the original on 2006-07-21. Retrieved 2006-09-09.
  5. ^ Collier, p.200.
  6. ^ "Historia prezerwatyw". TopMejt. March 19, 2017. Archived from the original on October 16, 2019. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
  7. ^ a b c d "The Berlin Review of Books | The Great Rubber Robbery: How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis". Archived from the original on 2011-02-02. Retrieved 2019-10-16.

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Further reading

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