• - Born on June 2, 1866, in Wittmund, East Frisia, as Moses Lazarus, Albert Jakob Neumark was the sixth of ten children of Philip Abraham Neumark and Julchen Neumark.
• - After completing his Abitur, he attended the Oberrealschule in Oldenburg and pursued studies in metallurgy at various technical universities in Berlin, Dresden, and Jena.
• - In 1891, he earned his doctorate from the University of Erlangen.
• - Following study tours of heavy industry across Europe, Neumark worked in Upper Silesian heavy industry and was appointed blast furnace manager at the Donnersmarckhütte in 1895.
• - From 1900, he built a blast furnace, steel, and rolling mill in Zawiercie, Russian Poland.
• - In 1905, he was appointed the managing director of the Hochofenwerk Lübeck AG by the "Committee for the Establishment of a Blast Furnace Plant in Lübeck."
• - During the groundbreaking ceremony on May 8, 1906, Neumark emphasized the importance of a shared foundation among shareholders, the state, and the workforce for the success of the enterprise.
• - Under his leadership, various factory facilities were established, including blast furnaces, coke oven batteries, and a copper smelter.
• - Albert Jakob Neumark led the operation patriarchally, creating a workplace community with social amenities such as a choir, orchestra, factory library, furnace cinema, apprentice workshop, and childcare programs.
• - Moritz Neumark's name is recorded on the donor plaque of the Behnhaus in Lübeck.
• - Despite technological innovations, such as a patent for the production of carbon-rich pig iron in 1932, he was expelled from various associations in 1933 after the Nazis came to power due to his Jewish heritage.
• - The pressure forced him to resign in 1934. His son and daughters emigrated.
• - Neumark himself was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942 and passed away there on February 25, 1943.
• - After the war, the city of Lübeck honored him by naming a street in Lübeck-Herrenwyk after him.
• - His name is also listed on the memorial plaque for city council members murdered by the Nazis in the town hall.

See also:

-Schreiber, Albrecht (2015): "Hirschfeld, Asch und Blumenthal ... - Jüdische Firmen und jüdisches Wirtschaftsleben in Lübeck 1920-1938. Blüte, Enteignung, 'Wiedergutmachung'." Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, pp. 144 ff.