Else Beitz
Else Beitz (born June 11, 1920 in Hamburg ; † September 14, 2014 in Essen , née Hochheim ) was a German educationalist . She was the wife of the industrialist Berthold Beitz .
Career
Else Hochheim was born the daughter of an active trade unionist. After finishing school in 1936, like her future husband, she worked for Deutsche Shell in Hamburg. They met each other playing tennis in 1938 and married the following year. The marriage had three children.
When her husband, as the commercial director of the Karpathen-Öl AG in Boryslaw , saved many Jews from the extermination camps between 1941 and 1944 by declaring them indispensable for the production of his war-important company, she was his most important helper and confidante. She provided the Jews with food and gave some of them safe hiding places in their own homes. In 2006, she was sure of the memorial Yad Vashem to the Righteous Among the Nations appointed.
After the war ended in 1945, she fled the eastern sector with her eldest daughter. Her husband remained in captivity until August 1946. After the children were out of the house, she made up her A-levels in 1978 and studied education. In 1984, she took off her diploma and was founded in 1993 with its work on industrial education in the large companies of the 19th century until the First World War - the example of the company Krupp (published as a book plain-Verlag Essen 1994) PhD .
Else Beitz, who had been suffering from dementia for several years , died on September 14, 2014 in Essen at the age of 94.
Honors
- 1994: Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1997: Josef Neuberger Medal
- 1999: Leo Baeck Prize
- 2006: Righteous Among the Nations
- 2011: State Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 2012: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Individual evidence
- ^ Else Beitz on the Yad Vashem website
- ↑ Wulf Mämel: Righteous Among the Nations Dr. Else Beitz. In: WAZ , March 10, 2008.
- ↑ A wise and courageous woman. Else Beitz is dead. Handelsblatt.com, September 22, 2014, accessed on September 25, 2014 .
- ^ Andreas Rossmann : Else Beitz died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 22, 2014 (accessed on September 22, 2014).
- ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
- ^ Order of Merit for Else Beitz , WDR media library, March 16, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beitz, Else |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hochheim, Else (former name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educationalist and Righteous Among the Nations |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 2014 |
| Place of death | eat |