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 aft…