Richard Albersheim
1895 - 1966

Richard Albersheim was born in Frankfurt am Main on September 26, 1895, the son of the merchant Leopold Albersheim (1859-1924) and his wife Mathilda Clara, née Langenbach (1870-1966). At that time, the family lived at Wiesenau 44 and he had three sisters: Marie (1894-1980), Elisabeth (1897-1995) and Aenne (1901-1927). Richard Albersheim married Dora Ferdinande, née Hirsch (1896-1978) on May 23, 1933. Their only child, daughter Ursula, was born on July 14, 1937. Until their emigration to Brazil, the family lived in Frankfurt am Main at Zeppelinallee 83.

As managing and authorized general partner of Gustav Carsch, Richard Albersheim was a successful businessman. The Carsch company, whose parent company was based in Düsseldorf, had been one of the leading men's clothing stores in Frankfurt since 1928 and was represented there with two branches (Königsteiner Str. 5 and Zeil 121), which were managed by Gustav Carsch's son Siegfried.

Under pressure from the increasing harassment of Jewish businesses since the National Socialists came to power, the Carsch family was forced to sell their two businesses to Hans Ott and Erich Heinemann in October 1936, who then founded "Ott und Heinemann KG". Richard Albersheim and his family emigrated to Brazil in May 1937.
In May 1937, Richard Albersheim was able to emigrate to Brazil with his wife and daughter, where they arrived by ship on June 10, 1937. The family lived there in Rio de Janeiro. Due to the perfidious plundering machinery of the National Socialists, the Albersheim family only had limited financial means left for the move to Brazil. In a letter dated July 1956 to the Hessian compensation authority, Albersheim wrote:
"As a result of the high tax levies and the large loss of the Sperrmark, I was only able to transfer a very small part of my assets to Brazil, so I was dependent on earning money immediately in order to support my family."

In May 1938, Richard Albersheim was able to join a radio company as a partner, but had to give up his work there a few months later after the company ran into financial difficulties. From July 1939, he took a share in a small cosmetics factory, which also ran into difficulties. In order not to jeopardize the economic stability of the small company, he waived part of his salary and converted the unpaid money into a loan.
In 1939, Richard Albersheim's mother Mathilda also managed to emigrate to Brazil, which made the financial situation of the family of four increasingly precarious. For this reason, Albersheim quit his largely unpaid day job at his own company to take up a low-paid position as an office worker in a department store. According to his own statement, he then devoted himself to bookkeeping in his company in the evenings.

Richard Albersheim's partner in the jointly managed cosmetics company fell seriously ill at the beginning of 1944. In order to keep the joint company alive, Albersheim had to give up his office work at the department store in order to devote all his energy to his own business. Nevertheless, from March 1944 onwards, it was possible to earn a small amount to maintain his livelihood. Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the Brazilian market was literally flooded with foreign perfumery products, causing the demand for national products to collapse. As a result, Richard Albersheim was forced to liquidate his cosmetics company in 1947.

In 1959, the 1st Compensation Chamber of the Wiesbaden Regional Court rejected a claim by Richard Albersheim for payment of a pension. Richard Albersheim died on February 10, 1966 in Rio de Janeiro, his wife Dora on July 28, 1978. We currently know nothing about the fate of their daughter Ursula, except that she married Pedro dos Santos, who was born in Rio de Janeiro.

Richard Albersheim was a member of the Frankfurt am Main section from 1922. We know nothing about his activities within the section. We also do not know whether he left the Alpine Club or was expelled after the introduction of the so-called "Aryan paragraph".