Georg Eppenstein

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Stumbling block for Georg Eppenstein at the Salvador-Allende-Str. 43

Georg Eppenstein (born December 7, 1867 in Berlin-Nikolassee ; died August 3, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German chemist and murder victim during the Köpenick Blood Week .

Life

Georg Eppenstein was born in Berlin-Nikolassee in 1867 as the son of a Jewish family. He studied chemistry at the Technische Hochschule Berlin , Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and, since the winter semester of 1892, at the University of Rostock . There doctorate he became Dr. phil. 1902.

Since 1921 he was partner and managing director of the company Ruilos Knoblauch-Verwertungs-GmbH

He was arrested by two SA men on June 21, 1933 and tortured in the storm bar "Demuth" by SA squad leader Gustav Erpel and later taken to the Köpenick district court prison, where the torture continued. His wife Martha Eppenstein intervened with the SA-Sturmbannführer Herbert Gehrke because of the arrest of her husband and forced the release of her husband, who was already marked by death, and his transfer to the Charité. The Jewish doctor and cousin Hans Hirschfeld looked after Eppenstein in his last days. He died of the injuries inflicted on August 3, 1933 in the Charité . His murder was one of the first anti-Semitically motivated killings since the Berlin came to power.

On May 17, 1949, his wife Martha Eppenstein (d. 1957) reported about her husband in a testimony: “I was shocked when I saw him. He was unrecognizable. The glasses were gone, the eyes, the head smashed, the nasal bone smashed. "

According to the judgment of the 4th Large Criminal Chamber in the Plötzke u. a. (Köpenick Blood Week) 1933 . Berlin Regional Court, Berlin In 1950 Gustav Erpel was sentenced to death and executed by guillotine on February 20, 1951 in Frankfurt (Oder) .

Georg Eppenstein's daughter, Elisabeth-Charlotte Eppenstein (1910–1973), as a Jewish "mixed breed I degree", could not finish her medical studies. After the death of her father, she was the deputy manager of the Ruilos company. From February to April 1944 she was admitted to the Wittenau sanatorium . In the 1950s she fought for recognition as a politically and racially persecuted person.

dissertation

  • About alkyl arsenic benzoic acids and some derivatives . C. Boldt'sche Buchdruckerei, Rostock 1902. (Rostock, Phil. Diss. Of February 28, 1902)

literature

  • Rudolf Hirsch : The Koepenick Blood Week. From the courtroom (PDF; 20.3 MB) reports on the “Trial against Plönzke and others” in the Daily Rundschau from 6 June to 20 July 1950.
  • Kurt Werner, Karl Heinz Biernat: The Köpenicker Blood Week June 1933 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1958. (47 pages)
    • Kurt Werner, Karl Heinz Biernat: The Köpenicker blood week June 1933 with an appendix of the victims . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1960. (103 pages)
  • Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann: Resistance in Köpenick and Treptow . German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin 1995, pp. 26, 29, 324 f., 301. (= Series of publications on the resistance in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. Volume 9) ISBN 3-926082-03-8 . Digitized version (PDF)
  • Georg Eppenstein . In: Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945 . Volume 2. Trafo Verlag, Berlin 2002, p. 137. ISBN 3-89626-352-8
  • Wolfgang Benz : Handbook of Antisemitism. Hostility to Jews in the past and present. Volume 4. Events, decrees, controversies . De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, p. 223. books.google.de
  • Memory of the victims of the SA terror. In: Unser Blatt , No. 58, May 2013, p. 8. Digital copy (PDF)
  • Christoph Kreutzmüller: Final Sale in Berlin. The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity, 1930-1945 . Berghahn Books, New York 2015, p. 112 and p. 273. Digitized
  • Jacqueline Nordhorn: Heir to Treason. Detective novel . Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2016. ISBN 978-3-8392-4933-8 . Digitized
  • Herbert Mayer: A reminder to the Köpenick blood week . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 6, 1998, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 86-88 ( luise-berlin.de ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jewish businesses in Berlin 1930–1945 .
  2. ↑ Squad leader of the SA Gustav Erpel, born August 6, 1901 in Berlin-Köpenick, residing in Glinde near Hamburg, executed at the time of the Plönzke trial on February 20, 1951.
  3. ↑ He was tortured here with Götz Kilian in the SA storm bar "Seidler" . (See Rudolf Hirsch.)
  4. ↑ Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann, p. 26.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Benz : Handbook of Antisemitism. Hostility to Jews in the past and present. Volume 4. Events, decrees, controversies . De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, p. 223. books.google.de
  6. ↑ Christoph Kreutzmüller, p. 142.
  7. ↑ Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann, pp. 34–35.
  8. ↑ Köpenick Blood Week Memorial.
  9. ↑ Signature 12 S 358: Berlin State Library and Signature D II 15: Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial.
  10. ^ Jewish businesses in Berlin 1930–1945 .
personal data
SURNAME Eppenstein, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and murder victim of the Köpenick Blood Week
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Nikolassee
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1933
Place of death Berlin