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Joseph Berliner

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Joseph Berliner

Birth
Hanover, Region Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Death
23 May 1938 (aged 79)
Hanover, Region Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Hanover, Region Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany Add to Map
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Founder of Deutsche Grammophon. Pictured at right is Hannover City Plaque #119, commemorating Joseph, Emil, Therese, and Klara Berliner. It was placed on Joseph Berliner's home, called Villa Simon, on the Königsworther Platz in the Calenberger Neustadt part of Hanover. English translation: „Joseph Berliner lived here. Entrepreneur. Together with his brother Emil, the inventor of the gramophone record, he established the world's first record factory in 1898. Chairman of the synagogue. He lived here with his wife Therese (d. 1934) and their daughter Klara from 1895-1938. Klara Berliner was deported on 16.3.1943. She died in the Ghetto Terezín. The Villa Simon was designed in 1860 by the architect Heinrich Christian Tramm for the lawyer Eduard Simon."
Source: Wikimedia Commons, photo by Bernd Schwabe.
Founder of Deutsche Grammophon. Pictured at right is Hannover City Plaque #119, commemorating Joseph, Emil, Therese, and Klara Berliner. It was placed on Joseph Berliner's home, called Villa Simon, on the Königsworther Platz in the Calenberger Neustadt part of Hanover. English translation: „Joseph Berliner lived here. Entrepreneur. Together with his brother Emil, the inventor of the gramophone record, he established the world's first record factory in 1898. Chairman of the synagogue. He lived here with his wife Therese (d. 1934) and their daughter Klara from 1895-1938. Klara Berliner was deported on 16.3.1943. She died in the Ghetto Terezín. The Villa Simon was designed in 1860 by the architect Heinrich Christian Tramm for the lawyer Eduard Simon."
Source: Wikimedia Commons, photo by Bernd Schwabe.

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Hier ruht mein guter Vater
Herr Kommerzienrat
Joseph Berliner
Geb. 12. Elul 5618 / 22. August 1858
Gest. 22. Ijar 5698 / 23. Mai 1938

Here rests my good father
Herr Kommerzienrat
(Commerce councilor)
Joseph Berliner
b. 12 Elul 5618 / 22 August 1858
d. 22 Iyar 5698 / 23 May 1938

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  • Maintained by: K. C. Mellem
  • Originally Created by: LoveTrees
  • Added: Oct 5, 2013
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118236161/joseph-berliner: accessed ), memorial page for Joseph Berliner (22 Aug 1858–23 May 1938), Find a Grave Memorial ID 118236161, citing Jüdischer Friedhof An der Strangriede, Hanover, Region Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany; Maintained by K. C. Mellem (contributor 47424941).