Eugen Baedeker

Eugen Baedeker (born June 30, 1869 in Essen ; † June 1940 ) was a German-English merchant and consul .

Life

He was the son of the newspaper publisher Julius Baedeker (1840-1894) and his wife Maria nee Threß.

Eugen Baedeker attended the Higher Citizens School in Essen and then completed a three-year business apprenticeship in Dortmund . In 1890 he did his military service as a one year old volunteer. In October 1891 he left the German Empire and settled in England, where he started his own business in May 1897 in the bicycle industry, which was becoming increasingly fashionable. In 1909 he moved his business from the London borough of Camberwell to Birmingham . He imported and exported bicycles and motors. In Birmingham he was one of the first owners of his own automobile.

In September 1928, Eugen Baedeker was appointed German consul in Birmingham. As such, he was involved in the emigration of numerous Jewish residents from Germany and Austria to Great Britain. His administrative district was the city of Birmingham. He died in June 1940.

family

Eugen Baedeker married Edith Evelyn, born Cole, on May 5, 1896 in Kidderminster , who, like him, was of Protestant faith. The children Elsa (* 1897), Marion (* 1901) and Erich (1903–1979) emerged from their marriage. In Birmingham he lived with his family at 46 Richmond Hill Road Edgbaston.

Pastor Friedrich Baedeker (1869–1947) was his older brother.

literature

Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, page 49.
Alta , University of Birmingham Review, Issues 1-6, 1966, pages 340-346.

Web links

Illustration of a letter from Eugen Baedeker to Albert Haugthon dated November 29, 1915 (in English)

Individual evidence

^ The later Humboldt Realschule and today's Frida Levy Comprehensive School in Essen.
^ The Motor Car Journal , Volume 7, 1905, page 65.
↑ Traude Bollauf: Maid Emigration. The flight of Jewish women from Austria and Germany to England 1938/39 (= Vienna Studies on Contemporary History, Volume 10), 2nd, revised edition, Vienna LIT Verlag 2011, page 103.
↑ Handbook for the German Reich, edited in the Reich Office of the Interior , Berlin 1936, page 35.
↑ Yearbook for Foreign Policy , 1939, page 351.

personal data
SURNAME	Baedeker, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-English merchant and consul
DATE OF BIRTH	June 30, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	eat
DATE OF DEATH	June 1940

[1] The later Humboldt Realschule and today's Frida Levy Comprehensive School in Essen.

[2] The Motor Car Journal , Volume 7, 1905, page 65.

[3] Traude Bollauf: Maid Emigration. The flight of Jewish women from Austria and Germany to England 1938/39 (= Vienna Studies on Contemporary History, Volume 10), 2nd, revised edition, Vienna LIT Verlag 2011, page 103.

[4] Handbook for the German Reich, edited in the Reich Office of the Interior , Berlin 1936, page 35.

[5] Yearbook for Foreign Policy , 1939, page 351.