family firm, in which he eventually met with success. The struggle may have contributed to his early death, in Brussels on 14 April 1950. He is buried in the Alter Jüdischer Friedhof (Old Jewish Cemetery) Aachen. With him is buried his wife, Esther, who died in 1966. The Firm Survives Some years passed before in 1956 the Hennigs took the decision to return to the Continent, largely for the sake of their daughters’ future, but also to allow Hennig to take control of the Meyer business, now restored to family ownership. A plant of the firm, known as Rota, had been established at Säckingen (Bad Säckingen) in Germany, on the southern edge of the Black Forest area. John Hennig took on its management, but the events of the Nazi period were such that the family could not bring itself to refound their family life on German soil. Instead, they took up residence in nearby Basel, Switzerland, Hennig commuting from there over the border daily to manage the firm. The work was not of the kind that Hennig relished, but it ensured the family's financial stability and was in any case seen by him as a duty to the memory of his revered father-in-law. The firm later became a subsidiary of the Japanese Yokogawa group. Further reading Felix Meyer & Amelis von Mettenheim, Felix Meyer 1875-1950. Erfinder und Menschenretter: ein Jude rettet Juden im besetzten Belgien; sein Leben dargestellt an Hand von Briefen, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1998. Clemens Maier-Wolthausen, (et al.), Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Jüden durch das nazionalsozialistischen Deutschland, 12 West- und Nordeuropa Juni 1942–1945, De Gruyter, Oldenbourg, 2015, dok. 205. Catherine Massange, 'L’Hôpital israélite de Bruxelles (1943-1944)', in Les Cahiers de la Mémoire contemporaine 7 (2006) 13-35 Gisela Holfter and Horst Rasche, Hennig, Paul Gottfried Johannes (John), in Dictionary of Irish Biography, https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do;jsessionid=8108D3572FE8297F4515D0323C8B1648?articleId=a3936&prev=prev [retrieved 24 Oct. 2020] References Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany Businesspeople from North Rhine-Westphalia German industrialists 20th-century German inventors German humanitarians 1875 births 1950 deaths People from Aachen