David Schnur

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David Schnur (April 9, 1882, in Baranów, German Empire – March 16, 1948, in New York City, US) was an Austrian tobacco entrepreneur.

Early life[edit]

Schnur's parents were the merchant Markus Schnur (born 1820 in Tarnów; died 1900 in Tarnów) and Else, née Neumann, the daughter of a businessman from Pressburg. David lived mostly in Prussia from the age of about ten.

Career in the tobacco industry[edit]

In 1903, Schnur held an executive position at the Karmitri-Zigarettenfabrik AG cigarette factory in Berlin, which had been founded in 1880.[1] He became its majority shareholder. He acquired Hadges-Nessim-Zigarettenfabrik GmbH in Hamburg and a trust company.

During the First World War, Schnur was a member of the presidium of the procurement office for raw tobacco. Recruited by 1920 by the Reemtsma brothers, who had no knowledge of tobacco themselves but developed machines for cigarette production, Schur directed the purchase of tobacco and the composition of tobacco mixtures in return for a share of the profits. In 1921 he took a stake in Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken, becoming a partner in the company and a member of Reetsma's board of directors.[2][3][4][5]

Schnur traveled frequently to the tobacco-growing areas in the Balkans. In 1923, he purchased a crop in Thessaloniki. Hans Domizlaff called the new cigarette Harvest 23.

Reemtsma moved its headquarters to Hamburg in 1922 attracted by the advantages of the free port. In 1924, Karmitri was merged with Reemtsma. During his travels, Schnur established contacts in government circles and became Turkish consul in Berlin. In 1929, the University Braunschweig awarded him an honorary doctorate. Until Hitler came to power, Schnur headed Reetsma's tobacco growing interests.[6][7]

His son Harry C. Schnur [de], born in Berlin in 1907, received German citizenship in 1920.[8]

Nazi-era persecution and exile[edit]

Following complaints by Hitler's SA that Reemtsma was producing Jewish cigarettes, expatriation proceedings were initiated against him in 1935.[9] Schnur escaped a raid by the Gestapo in early July and emigrated to the US via France in 1939. He later acquired American citizenship and died in the US in 1948.[10]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Karmitri Zigarettenfabrik". CIGABOX.DE (in German). Retrieved 2022-11-01.
  2. ^ "Reetsma 100 Jahre" (PDF). Bereits 1920 konnten die geschäftstüchtigen Brüder den Orienttabak-Experten David Schnur für den Einkauf gewinnen. Der Tabakexperte reiste im Auftrag von Reemtsma durch die wichtigsten Anbaugebiete der Welt. Von seinen Reisen durch Südosteuropa in den 20er Jahren brachte er erlesene Tabake und Hunderte von Fotografien der Tabakbauern und der Anbaub
  3. ^ Reuveni, Gideon (2017). Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9780511894893. ISBN 978-1-107-01130-4.
  4. ^ Proctor, Robert N. (2018-06-05). "CHAPTER 6. The Campaign against Tobacco". The Nazi War on Cancer. Princeton University Press. pp. 173–247. doi:10.1515/9780691187815-008. ISBN 978-0-691-18781-5. Reemtsma was also vulnerable, however, because one member of his governing board, David Schnur, was Jewish
  5. ^ Domizlaff, Hans (1946). Analogik: denkgesetzliche Grundlagen der naturwissenschaftlichen Forschung. Krüger. OCLC 902328413. Werbung: Im Herbst 1920 begegnete er den Erfurter Zigarettenfabrikanten Philipp F. Reemtsma und Hermann F. Reemtsma, für die er ab Mai 1921 als Schöpfer der bekannten Marken R6, Ernte 23, Senoussi, Gelbe Sorte und als Werbeberater arbeitet. Nach der Umwandlung der Firma Bernhard Reemtsma & Söhne in die Reemtsma AG im Herbst 1921 gehörte Hans Domizlaff zusammen mit David Schnur und Johannes Reißner zum Aufsichtsrat.
  6. ^ "DAVID SCHNUR, MADE FOREIGN CIGARETTES". The New York Times. 1948-03-17. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  7. ^ "From Leaf to Ash: Jews, Germans, and Bulgarian Gold in the Second World War". academic.oup.com. doi:10.7591/cornell/9780801450846.003.0005. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  8. ^ Reuveni, Gideon, ed. (2017), "Ethnic Marketing and Consumer Ambivalence in Weimar Germany", Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 25–65, doi:10.1017/9780511894893.003, ISBN 978-1-107-64850-0, retrieved 2022-10-31
  9. ^ PROCTOR, ROBERT N. (1997). "The Nazi War on Tobacco: Ideology, Evidence, and Possible Cancer Consequences". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 71 (3): 435–488. doi:10.1353/bhm.1997.0139. ISSN 0007-5140. JSTOR 44445933. PMID 9302840. S2CID 39160045.
  10. ^ "Markenlexikon | Reemtsma". www.brandslex.de. Retrieved 2022-11-01.

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