Eugene Salomon

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Eugen Salomon (born March 5, 1888 in Wörrstadt ; † November 14, 1942 in Auschwitz-Birkenau ) was one of the founders of the soccer club 1. Mainz soccer club "Hassia" 05 in 1905 and from October 1905 was temporarily its first chairman. From this club, the 1. Mainz Soccer and Sports Club 05 ( 1. FSV Mainz 05 ) emerged in 1919 , which today plays in the first Bundesliga . Eugene Salomon was between 1905 to 1933 several times a member of the Association Board until after the DC circuit emigrated to France in 1933 of the club. From there he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in November 1942 and murdered shortly afterwards.

Association founder, board member and chairman

Eugen Salomon was born in Wörrstadt, Rhineland-Hesse , in 1888 and moved to Mainz with his family around 1900. In the spring of 1905 he joined the 1st Mainz soccer club "Hassia" 05, which was founded in March of that year . At an extraordinary general assembly in October 1905, the only 17-year-old Salomon was elected first chairman of the association. As a result of Salomon's involvement, the previously unorganized playing club was accepted into the Association of South German Football Associations on June 24, 1906 , in which he played his first competitive game in class B on October 7, 1906.

During the First World War he lived in Lorraine for a few years and returned to Mainz with his family in 1918. During his activity as chairman, board member and also sponsor of the association, the association merged several times, until the 1. FSV Mainz 05 was finally created after the end of the First World War in 1919 . The successful phase of the club in the district league of Hessen in the 1920s and early 1930s also fell during his time on the board. There, the Mainz team won the Hessen championship several times and in 1926/27 the title in the Rheinhessen-Saar district, which entitles them to participate in the South German championship round. Eugen Salomon went into business for himself in the 1920s as the owner of textile wholesalers and, after closing down the business as a result of the global economic crisis, worked as a textile agent.

At the beginning of the National Socialist rule , the 1. FSV Mainz 05 was considered a "Jewish Association". In addition to Eugen Salomon, Carl Lahnstein (1887–1954, assessor and sponsor) and Erwin Drucker (at times 3rd chairman and treasurer), other members of the board of directors of Jewish faith, were the well-known Mainz businessmen . In an extraordinary general assembly of the association on August 10, 1933, the remaining Jewish board members lost their functions. Salomon left Germany that same year.

Little was known about the rest of his life until 2011. Eugen Salomon was last listed in the Mainz telephone books in 1934. According to the emigration lists, Salomon left Germany for France in 1933/34. For the 50th anniversary of 1. FSV Mainz 05, a son of the club's founder is said to have registered with the club in 1955. He reported that his family had been able to emigrate and that his father had since passed away. Salomon also said goodbye in 1933 with a short, heartfelt letter to Julius Etz, player, coach and manager of Mainz 05. Carl Lahnstein was able to emigrate to the USA at the end of the 1930s .

The research work by representatives of the Mainz City Archives , the NS Documentation Center Rhineland-Palatinate / Osthofen Concentration Camp Memorial and the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz in the summer of 2011 yielded new insights into the further course of Eugen Salomon's life. He actually emigrated to France together with three other people, possibly his wife and children, and lived there a. a. in Bourges south of Orleans until 1942. According to the Journal officiel de la République française , Eugen Salomon was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz in November 1942. There he was murdered by the National Socialists on November 14, 1942.

Memory of Eugen Salomon in Mainz

Street sign for Eugen-Salomon-Strasse in Mainz (in the background the Coface Arena, which was still under construction at the time of the photo )
Stumbling block for Eugen Salomon in Mainz

In 2010 the almost forgotten Eugen Salomon became known to the public again due to the controversial naming of a Mainzer Straße. In the course of the construction work on the Coface Arena of 1. FSV Mainz 05 in Bretzenheim , the local advisory board decided to give the name Arenastraße for the access road from the Europa roundabout to the stadium. The Supporters Mainz (umbrella association of fans and fan clubs of Mainz 05) suggested the name Eugen-Salomon-Weg or -straße instead . This proposal was picked up and discussed by the regional media, while local politics stuck to the name proposed by the local council for the time being. After a stalemate between the two name proposals arose in the local advisory council , the culture committee of the Mainz city council decided on June 22, 2010, by a majority across all parliamentary groups, to name the access road in Eugen-Salomon-Straße . On April 6, 2011, the street was officially inaugurated.

On March 5, 2013, on the occasion of Eugen Salomon's 125th birthday, four stumbling blocks by the artist Gunter Demnig were installed in front of his last residence in Mainz at Boppstrasse 64 in the Neustadt district of Mainz . The action was financed by the 1. FSV Mainz 05, represented by the Vice President Peter Arens, and carried out in the presence of Salomon's descendants, the Mainz cultural department head Marianne Grosse and fans of the 1. FSV Mainz 05. The four stumbling blocks represent Eugen Salomon, his wife Alice and his two sons Albert and Erwin, who fled to France together in 1933.

Web links

literature

  • Reinhard Rehberg, Jörg Schneider, Christian Karn u. a .: 100 years 1. FSV Mainz 05: The book for the anniversary. Publisher: 1. FSV Mainz 05, self-published, Mainz 2005
  • Dominic Schreiner: Searching for traces: Eugen Salomon - the tragic fate of the founder of 1. FSV Mainz 05. In: Mainz: Quarterly books for culture, politics, economy, history; 31 (2011) 4, pp. 70-73

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to notification 1. FSV Mainz 05 (from July 1, 2010)
  2. ↑ 05-founder Eugen Salomon was a victim of the Holocaust - According to the message 1. FSV Mainz 05 (from September 23, 2011)
  3. ↑ Monika Nellessen: New findings: Mainz 05 founder Eugen Salomon died in Auschwitz . ( Memento from September 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Rhein Main Presse , September 23, 2011
  4. ↑ Jochen Dietz: Mainz 05 founder died in Auschwitz . September 23, 2011
  5. ↑ Brief portrait: Eugen Salomon. rhein-zeitung.de, September 23, 2011
  6. ↑ supporters-mainz.de
  7. ↑ Stadium address wanted: Suggestion of the supporters - Eugen-Salomon-Straße
  8. ↑ According to notification 1. FSV Mainz 05 (from July 1, 2010)
  9. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz ( Memento from April 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Laura Ehlenberger: Stumbling blocks against oblivion - the city commemorates the Mainz 05 founder Eugen Salomon . In: Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz . March 5, 2013, p. 1 .
personal data
SURNAME Salomon, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Football official and businessman in Mainz
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Wörrstadt , Grand Duchy of Hesse
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1942
Place of death Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp