Linton - Louis Alexander - b 1896

Louis Alexander Linton (formerly Ludwig Alexander Liebermann) was born into a middle class Jewish family in Berlin in 1896. He and his brother Albert (1897-1917) served in the army in the First World War. Albert died in battle in 1917. After obtaining his doctorate in chemistry, Ludwig worked in various chemical industry firms in Germany and abroad. From 1928 to 1933 he was manager of the Aluminium Foil Department of Wolf Netter, Ludwigshafen, and from 1933-1936 export manager of Rheinische Blattmetall A.G. Grevenbroich.

In 1936, Ludwig Liebermann was told by his manager not to return from his next business trip as the company would no longer be able to protect him, being a Jewish employee. He went to England in January 1937 and soon found employment as technical advisor and export manager of Fisher's Foils Limited in Wembley. His wife Susan Maria Linton (née Susanne Marie Friedmann), born in Vienna in 1902, and their two children Eva Maria (born 1932) and Albert Max (born 1935) followed him in November 1937.

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