Ernst Henle

Ernst Henle (* 1878 in Munich ; † 1938 ) was a municipal building director in Munich and responsible for Munich's water supply . He came from a long-established Jewish family in Munich. His father, Carl Henle, was a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Bavarian Infantry Body Regiment. He had himself, his wife and his two sons Franz and Ernst baptized Protestants on the occasion of the birth of their second son.

Henle made an outstanding contribution to the city's water supply. He designed the Jutierhalle on Munich's Oberwiesenfeld (1926).

Because Henle was a participant in the First World War and had already been made civil servants before 1914, he fulfilled two exceptions to the law for the restoration of the professional civil service , which the Reich government passed shortly after the takeover to remove "non-Aryan" and opposition officials from the public service. However, Henle was not spared. " Christian Weber , whose innumerable positions also included that of the board of directors for Munich water supply, compared Henle's administration of office to practices 'that are commonplace with gentlemen from Jerusalem'. In January 1934, Henle resigned after 24 Years as head of the water supply and applied for his retirement, which took place immediately. While the National Socialist city tour with the high-zone Kreuzpullach [in Forstenrieder Park ], whose planning was largely due to Henle, led a life in social isolation. Henle was considered missing a few days after the Reichsprognomnacht 1938. After his body was found in the spring of 1939, the police and the public prosecutor's office determined that he had committed suicide. to be."

Henle's brother, the dye chemist Dr. Franz Henle, committed suicide in 1944 as a result of persecution.

The street of the same name in Munich's Neuhausen district is named after Ernst Henle.

Publications

• Ernst Henle: The new Venturi knife systems in the spring area of ​​the city of Munich, 1931

Web links

• Hans Dollinger : The Munich street names. 6th edition, Südwest Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-517-08370-4 , p. 78.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mathias Irlinger: The supply of the "capital of the movement". Infrastructures and urban society in National Socialist Munich, Munich 2018 (p. 51).