Lothar Kahn papers

Lothar Kahn papers 

Louis Hane (1910‐1979) was born Lothar Kahn in Lollar, Germany, to Albert and Regina Kahn and had an older sister named Leni. He became a Social Democrat after World War I and started working for his father’s oil supply business in 1928. In 1933 he married Maria Dort, who was not Jewish. He was imprisoned at the Osthofen concentration camp for three weeks in August 1933 as a political prisoner because of his party affiliation and because he was suspected of publishing an anti‐Nazi poem. He was forced out of his job in 1935 and found a new position in Berlin. His sister fled to Brazil in 1936, his mother died in 1937, and his father was imprisoned for three weeks in Buchenwald in 1939 and joined Leni in Brazil in 1940. Louis worked or performed slave labor in Berlin for Siemens‐Bauunion, Siemens‐Halske, Siemens‐Schuckert, C. Pose Nachf., and at the Scheffler Moving Company. He was briefly arrested in 1943 during the Fabrikaktion (Factory Action). After the Russian Army liberated Berlin, he rejoined his family in Lollar, and they immigrated to America in 1946. 

Lothar Kahn papers