“One of the worst and most brutal henchman of absolute anti-Semitism in the economy.”
(Hamburg’s Senator of Culture Biermann-Rathjen, 1951)
“In the last war in particular, FC St. Pauli would feel the very helpful and beneficial hands of our dear Otto.”
(FC St. Pauli club journal, 1972)
Is there a history without a morale?
From a clerk for German Railways to a key figure inside Hamburg’s economy: Otto Wolff made a national-socialist model career. From all over Europe he did let transfer money from the “liquidation of Jewish property” to Hamburg – and organised its redistribution. What strings the influential Wolff did pull for FC St. Pauli in particular can today only be proved in individual cases. His help, at any case, was happily accepted.