Edmund Franzkowiak & Co. – Internationale Transporte

Name: Edmund Franzkowiak & Co. – Internationale Transporte

Owner: Edmund Franzkowiak, Lothar Kurzhals

Duration: Date of establishment unknown, probably active until the 1970s.

Business address(es): Uhlandstraße 83-84, Berlin (Wilmersdorf); Pfalzburger Straße 43-48, Berlin (Wilmersdorf); Katharinenkirchhof 1-5, Hamburg

Traces in the files: Mainly stored emigrants’ belongings that were planned for shipment. Actively reported to the tax authorities that he was managing „feindliches Vermögen“(enemy property)’ thereby drawing the authorities’ attention to the belongings.

The haulage company’s printed letterhead
Letterhead of the Franzkowiak shipping company. BLHA, Rep. 36A (II) 5696, fol. 152
Printed advertisement in black with white lettering
Advertisement for the Franzkowiak haulage firm in the 1942 Berlin Directory. 1942 Berlin Directory, p. 432