Claim: Erich Pommer was an independent German-born film producer and executive for low-budget indie movies.
Evidence: Erich Pommer (20 July 1889 – 8 May 1966) was a German-born film producer and executive. Pommer was perhaps the most powerful person in the German and European Film Industries in the 1920s and early 1930s. As producer, Erich Pommer was involved in the German Expressionist film movement during the silent era. He later worked in American exile before returning to Germany to help rebuild the German film industry after World War II.