Max Brose (born 4vJanuary 1884, in Osnabrück; died 11 April 1968, in Coburg, Germany) was a German businessman and industrialist.
[2] A successful campaign to rename a street after Brose in Coburg in the 21st century was the subject of international media coverage.
At the end of the war, Lieutenant Brose, who had fought in Germany's motorized forces on the Western Front, was sent to East Prussia to help take down a truck depot.
Within a few years, the company evolved as a major supplier of window regulators to German automakers Daimler-Benz, Volkswagen, Borgward, and Lloyd.
[4] During World War II, Brose's automotive company manufactured gasoline canisters and armaments for the German military, partly using forced labor.
The city, citing the research voted to "rehabilitate" Brose and honour him with a "Max-Brose-Straße," despite protests from the Central Council of Jews in Germany, the country's largest Jewish organization.
In 1935, Brose purchased the villa of a Jewish resident of Coburg named Abraham Friedmann that had been auctioned off as part of Aryanization, the Nazi seizure of property from Jews and its transfer to non-Jews.