Eduard Senz

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Monument to Eduard Senz in Neunkirchen

Karl Franz Eduard Senz (born December 30, 1877 in Wiebelskirchen , † February 28, 1941 in Hadamar ) was an original from Neunkirchen . He fell victim to the National Socialist murder of the sick in " Operation T4 ".

Life

Eduard Senz, also called Sense-Eduard , worked as a servant and porter at the Neunkirchen train station. He was known for his original way in which he used to encourage his fellow men to be decent and polite. In 1923 he fell ill and was taken to the Merzig sanatorium . When Merzig was converted into a hospital, he was transferred to the state sanatorium in Herborn, Hesse , in 1939 . On February 28, 1941, he was transferred to the Nazi euthanasia center in Hadamar , where he was murdered.

monument

In 1994 a bronze monument to Eduard Senz was erected in Neunkirchen , which the artist Werner Schorr had created. The monument was cast in the Strassacker art foundry in Süßen . It shows servant No. 2 - as his cap says - sitting on a suitcase, the cap next to him, his left hand raised to the listening ear. In 2006 the monument was moved a few meters in the course of the redesign of the Hammergraben.

prehistory

Discarded location: in front of the Stumm monument

Originally, Schorr should have designed a steel sculpture for Lübbener Platz in Neunkirchen; Then it was decided to highlight Eduard Senz as an example in memory of the victims of National Socialism and to erect a memorial to him. The new location on Stummplatz opposite the statue of Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg was discarded because Senz and Stumm did not have anything in common. On Hammergraben, a street frequented by numerous passers-by, the 1.50-meter-high work of art weighing around 400 kilograms stands on its own. A stone block next to the figure of Eduard Senz invites visitors to sit down next to the bronze figure. The sculpture of "Dienstmann No. 1" s Luiche in the Zweibrücken pedestrian zone served as a model.

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personal data
SURNAME Senz, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sense Eduard; Senz, Karl Franz Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Neunkircher original
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiebelskirchen
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1941
Place of death Hadamar