Bernhard Julius Ludwig Schott was born in Frankfurt am Main on 14 December 1884. In 1926 he married Margarete Goldschmidt. The ceremony took place in Berlin.
On 12 March 1920 Bernhard Schott became an agent for the company IG-Farben Industrie in Frankfurt am Main. He was promoted to deputy director in 1929. Until 1933 he held an unspecified position at the company’s division in France. Shortly after this Bernhard Schott returned to Frankfurt, where the family lived at Roonstrasse 9. Bernhard Schott was appointed director of Cassella, a subsidiary of IG-Farben.
In 1937 Schott emigrated to the Netherlands with his wife and children. He was initially appointed director of the company N.V. Nederlandse Verf- en Chemicaliënfabriek, which was based at Kanaalweg 1, Delft. On 21 November 1940, IG Farben was instructed to replace its entire Supervisory Board and Board of Directors as an Aryanization measure. Bernhard Schott was dismissed from his position on 30 April 1941.
The Schott family lived on Ruychrocklaan in The Hague until their arrest in September 1943. On 29 September 1943 the family was registered at Westerbork. The Schott family belonged to a transport of seven Jews 'mit Verdiensten um das Reich und sonstigen Zivildiensten' on 5 April 1944 to Theresienstadt. From there they were transported to Auschwitz on 4 July 1944.
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