Eduard Wolfskehl

Eduard Wolfskehl (born August 20, 1874 in Darmstadt , † June 12, 1943 in Frankfurt-Heddernheim ) was a German government builder .

Life

Eduard Ludwig Wolfskehl was born as the third child of Otto Wolfskehl and his wife Paula Simon in Darmstadt in 1874. His mother died of consumption as early as 1876 . In 1878 his father Otto married the Darmstadt pianist Lilli Schulz , who is said to have cared for the three children from his first marriage.

In 1893 Eduard passed his matriculation examination at the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt. He then studied civil engineering at the TH Darmstadt and graduated in 1898. In that year he became government construction manager at the Mainz Railway Directorate . He worked there until 1902. After taking the railway construction exam in 1903, he was appointed government master builder in the same year. He continued his work at the government building department in Mainz until 1908. He then worked for two years as railway construction and operations director at the Hessian-Prussian Railway Association and then for four years as a government master builder in Darmstadt. In this function he was responsible for the technical systems of the Darmstadt main station, built by Friedrich Pützer from 1907 to 1912 . In 1914 he applied for his discharge from civil service and from then on lived as a privateer . During the First World War, Eduard Wolfskehl was involved in the Hessian Red Cross. After the end of the war he was an honorary assistant at the TH Darmstadt and a private scholar .

Eduard Wolfskehl lived in downtown Darmstadt at Wilhelminenplatz 4. At the beginning of May 1943, Eduard Wolfskehl was arrested without legal grounds. The arrest was related to measures taken by the Nazi regime against previously “privileged mixed marriages ”. After imprisonment for around 14 days in the Rundeturmstrasse prison in Darmstadt, he was transferred to the Heddernheim labor education camp.

He died there on June 12, 1943 as a result of the treatment he had suffered. His grave is in the main cemetery in Frankfurt am Main on the grave site of the Braunfels family.

Eduard had married Wilhelmine Marie Spohr-Braunfels (1878–1939) in May 1899. The marriage resulted in four children. Marie-Luise (Lilly) (1900–1991), Fanny (1902–1974), Charlotte m. Kühner (1911–2010) and Otto (1920–1987).

Honors

Stumbling blocks in Darmstadt Eduard Wolfskehl

• March 15, 2010: In memory of Eduard Wolfskehl, a stumbling block was laid at Wilhelminenplatz 4 in Darmstadt.

Publications

• 1924: Speech to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Musikverein Darmstadt, Verlag Hohmann.

literature

• Eckhart G. Franz : Jews as Darmstadt citizens. Roether, Darmstadt 1984, p. 379.
• Stolpersteine ​​in Darmstadt , Darmstadt 2013, pp. 188–191.
• LG Darmstadt, July 14, 1950 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945–1966, Vol. XXII, edited by Irene Sagel-Grande, Adelheid L. Rüter-Ehlermann, HH Fuchs, CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, 1981, No. 611, pp. 657–682 Subject matter of the proceedings: arrest of 12 Jews living in 'mixed marriages' for void or fictitious reasons. Nine of those arrested were killed in a concentration camp.