Scherk (company)
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Information board in front of the former factory building
Scherk was a cosmetics company in Berlin, Germany founded by Ludwig Scherk (1880–1946). In Nazi Germany 1938 he was forced to sell it for a low price for Aryanization because he was Jewish. His son Fritz Scherk (1918–1995) bought it back and started a new production in West Berlin in 1951. In 1969 he sold it to the Alberto-Culver Company.
External links[]
- Scherk ist nicht mehr da (Heimatverein Steglitz 2007, in German)
Coordinates: 52°27′32″N 13°18′24″E / 52.458868°N 13.306533°E
Categories:
- Cosmetics companies of Germany
- Companies acquired from Jews under Nazi rule