Ludwig Katzenellenbogen

At the end of 1924, a consortium under his leadership acquired a large block of shares in Mitteldeutsche Creditbank, in which his cousin, Albert (1863-after 1933[2]) sat on the board.

Ostwerke was a group of spirit, cement, yeast, glass, and machine factories, and ran into difficulties after the takeover of Schultheiß-Patzenhofer-Brauerei and as a result of the economic crisis, at the end of the 1920s.

[3] In 1930, Katzenellenbogen married the actress Tilla Durieux,[4] and helped her to finance the Piscatorbühne (Piscator Theatre) at Berlin's Nollendorfplatz.

[12] In 1933, he fled with Tilla Durieux, first to Ascona in Switzerland, and emigrated from there, in 1935, to Zagreb (Kingdom of Yugoslavia), where a distant relative of his wife lived.

[11] In Liebenwalde, commemorative stumbling blocks were laid for Ludwig Katzenellenbogen and other family members by the artist Gunter Demnig.