- Born on January 2, 1878.

• In 1903, joined the brush factory Liedtke & Stolterfoht as a partner.
• On March 30, 1911, married Anna Engelmann, born in 1875 in Vienna.
• Sole owner of the North German Brush Industry Albert Asch & Co, Moislinger Allee 39/41 (over 200 employees),
• Villa in Stresemannstraße 17.
• As a member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities, he played a significant supportive role in promoting art and culture.
• In 1928, sold the company to the Joint Stock Company for Brush Industry Striegau/Silesia.
• On August 12, 1938, appointed head of the Lübeck tax office: "Merchant Albert Asch and his wife Anna owe the Reich the amount of 149,492.25 RM due to the provisions on the Reich flight tax to secure current or future claims for Reich flight tax. The security decision is immediately enforceable. I hereby request the entry of a security mortgage up to the maximum amount on the property Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße 17 in Lübeck owned by the debtors for the German Reich, represented by the Lübeck tax office." This amounted to expropriation. The next day, the business at Moislinger Allee 39/40 was "arisiert" – seized by the state.
• - Due to "racial defilement," he was arrested by the Lübeck Gestapo on August 5, 1938, and taken to the Marstall prison. There, he took his own life on August 12.

Literature:

Schreiber, Albrecht (2015): "Hirschfeld, Asch und Blumenthal ... - Jüdische Firmen und jüdisches Wirtschaftsleben in Lübeck 1920-1938. Blüte, Enteignung, 'Wiedergutmachung'." Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, pp. 55 ff.

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