Eugene Eger

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Eugene Eger
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Eugen Eger (born April 7, 1887 in Stuttgart ; † January 10, 1953 there ) was a German architect who worked for the Deutsche Reichsbahn and the Bundesbahn . He was an avowed Catholic. From 1926 to 1929 he was chairman of the Catholic Association of Academics in Ulm and in 1932 he was the second chairman of the Art Commission at the Catholic Day in Essen .

Live and act

After graduating from the Friedrich-Eugens-Realschule in Stuttgart, Eger studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart from 1905 to 1909 . From August 1911 he worked as a government construction manager. In 1914 he switched to the Royal Württemberg State Railways . From 1914 to 1918 Eger did military service. In January 1920 he became deputy director of the building construction section Stuttgart I of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , in April 1922 director of the building construction section Ulm . Since 1925 he was known for the construction of railway housing estates and station service buildings. In 1926, according to his plans, the construction of the new Franciscan monastery in Hasslerstraße began in Ulm . From 1929 Eger worked as an unskilled worker for the Essen Railway Directorate .

In 1933 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Stuttgart with a work on the baroque painter Matthäus Zehender . The rapporteur was the art historian and director of the Ulm Museum, Julius Baum . The edition submitted in July 1932 of the dissertation is dedicated to Bishop Sproll .

For a short time he was transferred to the Reichsbahndirektion Berlin in 1935 , after which he worked for the Reichsbahndirektion Saarbrücken and Mainz until 1939 . From 1939 until the end of the war he was transferred to Berlin again. From February 1945 until his retirement on April 30, 1952, he was again employed as a building construction department at the Reichsbahndirektion Stuttgart . He was the responsible planner of the Ulm train station , whose planning documents he is said to have saved in 1945.

According to family tradition, Eger was often transferred because of “political unreliability” and had to perform “underqualified jobs”. A guest book refers to contacts to Catholic associations and people. They are placed in the context of possible acts of resistance. However, there is no evidence of this.

Eger was classified as exonerated in his denazification process in January 1948. In the ruling it is recognized that according to Art. 13 he has offered active resistance according to the measure of his strength.

Eger has published art guides to Rothenburg ob der Tauber and Bad Mergentheim .

Fonts

  • (Ed.) Rothenburg od Tauber. A guide through history and art. With the collaboration of Georg Müller and Johannes Zeller. Preface by Paul Bonatz . Kling, Bad Mergentheim undated (around 1921); several editions until approx. 1936
  • (Editor) Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Short guide with 1 city map and 21 pictures. Edition B of the Guide to History and Art. Kling, Bad Mergentheim o. J.
  • (Ed.) Leader of Bad Mergentheim. Kling, Bad Mergentheim n.d. (around 1928)
  • Matthew Zehender. A religious Swabian painter of the 17th century. Kling, Bad Mergentheim o. J. (1932; dissertation, TH Stuttgart, 1933); also published in: Alemania. Journal for all areas of knowledge and art. Vol. 6 (1932), H. 3/4, pp. 153–238 (with separate page numbering 1–86; digitized version )

literature

  • Railway Directorate Stuttgart: Obituary on the occasion of the funeral of Eugen Eger in Stuttgart . 1953, p. 1 .
  • Franziskanerkonvent Ulm (ed.): Guide through the Franciscan monastery Ulm / Danube. The Franciscans in Ulm / Danube. History and work of the Franciscans in Ulm / Danube. Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 1992.
  • Bettina Eger: "Ever since I was hit hard once, I have been ringing in my ears ...". Victims and relatives of Nazi murders in psychiatric case histories. In: Memorial site review. No. 6 (2011) pp. 13-17, here. P. 17 note 1 ( online )
  • Eugen Eger, Dr.-Ing. In: Martin Schack: New train stations. The station building of the Deutsche Bundesbahn 1948–1973. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2004, p. 111.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EL 902/20, Bü 85359 p. 24 From Eugen Eger's objections to the complaint of December 17, 47 on December 28, 1947
  2. ↑ a b Roland Feitenhansl: Avant-garde yesterday and today. Railway station buildings in Baden-Württemberg in the 1950s. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg. 2010, no. 3, pp. 134-139, here p. 134 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Franziskanerkonvent Ulm / Donau (ed.): Guide through the Franciscan monastery Ulm / Donau. The Franciscans in Ulm / Danube. History and work of the Franciscans in Ulm / Danube . Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 1992, p. 22nd f .
  4. ↑ a b Catalog entry , dissertation catalog of the University Library Basel , accessed on August 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ All information according to: Bettina Eger: "Since I was hit hard once, I've always been ringing in my ears ...". Victims and relatives of Nazi murders in psychiatric case histories. In: Memorial site review. No. 6 (2011) pp. 13-17, here. P. 17 note 1 and 2 ( online ).
  6. ↑ StAL EL 902/20, Bü. 85359 Proverbs Eugen Eger B. 32 ( Document on Commons )
personal data
SURNAME Eger, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, most recently Federal Railway Director
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1953
Place of death Stuttgart