The financial world – the banker Anton Schmidt

Anton Schmidt (*1848) a son of the cattle dealer David Schmidt bought the impressive, historic house Sattlertorstraße 6 which comprised not only apartments but also two shops and a “dental workshop”. During the First World War he offered war bonds for purchase. Tragically his son Paul was so badly wounded in 1915 that after returning to Forchheim he died of his injuries. During the National Socialist period the widowed banker Schmidt was repeatedly subjected to hostile attacks and insults on the open street. It is said that to escape he frequently fled into the Catholic Cloister Church. Anton Schmidt died in the Jewish hospital in Fürth in 1940.