Julius von Eichel-Streiber
Julius von Eichel-Streiber (born April 21, 1820 in Eisenach ; † April 27, 1905 ) was a German patron who made generous donations to his hometown of Eisenach. He was the owner of the Heßberg manor near Hildburghausen . The main source of income for the Eichel-Streiber family was textile manufacturing. After 1800 the family bought the castle in Berka .
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Life
Julius von Eichel-Streiber's first marriage was Ida Briegleb, who was born on February 27, 1830 and was the daughter of the Eisenach high school professor August Briegleb. After Ida's death, who died on September 10, 1889 at the age of 60, he married Ida Vollert, who was born on September 16, 1853, in his second marriage. Both marriages remained childless. They had their apartment in the east of Eisenach, in Villa Eichel, Karolinenstrasse 33 in Grabental.
On the occasion of the opening of the Eisenach Theater in 1879, Eichel-Streiber was made an honorary citizen of the city of Eisenach because of his numerous services to the city. In addition, he worked as a patron for young painters such as Friedrich Preller the Elder. J.
Julius von Eichel-Streiber died on April 27, 1905 at the age of 86, his wife Ida on March 3, 1921 at the age of 68. The graves, as well as the graves of all other family members, who were buried in the family's own cemetery in Eisenach, were neglected and have only been looked after again since the reunification . The cemetery, like the entire property of the von Eichel-Streiber family, was expropriated without compensation after the occupation of Thuringia by the Red Army as part of the land reform in 1945.
The von Eichel-Streiber family
The name Eichel can be traced back to 1621 in Eisenach. This year, the master locksmith from Salzungen , Georg Eichel, received citizenship in Eisenach . In 1733 his great-grandson was given the privilege to set up a dye works in his house , the origin of textile processing and trade for the Eichel (-Streiber) family in Eisenach. In the middle of the 19th century the double name Eichel-Streiber was born through marriage. Because of their merits, the Eichel and Eichel-Streiber families were raised to hereditary nobility . At the end of the 1830s, Friedrich Eduard von Eichel-Streiber acquired the area on Goldtberg and had it converted into a landscape garden by the garden artist Eduard Petzold from 1841 to 1844. From 1890 to 1892, the family Acorn Streiber built the castle-like villa Pflugensberg in the middle of the park. The building served as the seat of the Protestant regional church of Thuringia from 1921 to 2008 .
The Eisenacher Diakonissenmutterhaus , the theater of the city , the commercial house, a trade school, the Justusstift and the former Caroline - Lyceum (now Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium ) are foundations from among the two families.
The events at the end of the Second World War and the consequences of the Potsdam Agreement and the Two-Plus-Four Treaty ended the history of the von Eichel-Streiber family in Eisenach.
Most of today's descendants of the families live in Germany, but also in southern Africa, in South and North America and in various European countries. Well-known members of the family include a. Friedrich von Eichel-Streiber , a former German lawyer and Thuringian state politician, as well as the German Air Force major of the Second World War and Knight's Cross holder Diethelm von Eichel-Streiber.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Family website
- ↑ Luftwaffe.cz website (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eichel-Streiber, Julius von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manor owner and founder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eisenach |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1905 |