Ludwig Essinger

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Ludwig Essinger (born January 9, 1881 in Heilbronn ; † April 5, 1942 there ) was a German doctor of the Jewish faith . He put his life in the service of the remaining Jews in Heilbronn and went down in history as the Jewish doctor for the poor from Böckingen .

Live and act

Essinger lived at Frankenbacher Strasse 21 in Böckingen and worked there as a doctor. According to the fourth ordinance to the Reich Citizenship Law, Dr. Essinger, however, was excluded from the medical chamber of the Württemberg-Hohenzollern district in 1938 and has only been a medical practitioner since then . In the November pogrom of 1938 at 1:25 a.m. and 1:40 a.m., the Nazis devastated the house of the Jewish doctor for the poor, Dr. Essinger with granite paving stones. There was also shooting. In the early 1940s, Essinger worked as a street sweeper. In November 1941 he lived with ten other people at Bergstrasse 2 and worked together with other citizens of Böckingen of the Jewish faith in work assignments in factories and in road construction. On January 7, 1942, Essinger took over the vacant practice of Julius Picard at Lauffener Str. 12 in Sontheim . He worked there until his death and took care of the residents of the Sontheim Israelite asylum , who lived in the house of Dr. Picard lived and were housed in the Wilhelmsruhe building at Hermann-Wolff-Straße 11 until November 15, 1940 . On April 5, 1942 Essinger committed by taking pills in the face of imminent deportation suicide .

Ludwig-Essinger-Strasse was named after him in 1991 in Heilbronn-Böckingen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Franke : History and Fate of the Jews in Heilbronn. From the Middle Ages to the time of the National Socialist persecution (1050–1945). Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1963, ISBN 3-928990-04-7 . P. 318
  2. ↑ The Böckingen doctor Dr. Ludwig Essinger . In: Böckingen am See. A district of Heilbronn - yesterday and today . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1998 (Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives, 37). P. 273
  3. ↑ Böckingen am See. A district of Heilbronn - yesterday and today . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1998 (Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives, 37). P. 195
  4. ↑ Böckingen am See. A district of Heilbronn - yesterday and today. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1998 (Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives, 37), p. 359
  5. ^ The Jewish doctor for the poor from Böckingen . In: Böckingen am See. A district of Heilbronn - yesterday and today . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1998 (Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives, 37). P. 195
  6. ↑ Hans Franke : History and Fate of the Jews in Heilbronn. From the Middle Ages to the time of the National Socialist persecution (1050–1945). Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1963, ISBN 3-928990-04-7 . P. 142
  7. ^ The Jewish doctor for the poor from Böckingen . In: Böckingen am See. A district of Heilbronn - yesterday and today . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1998 (Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives, 37). P. 195
  8. ↑ Hans Franke : History and Fate of the Jews in Heilbronn. From the Middle Ages to the time of the National Socialist persecution (1050–1945). Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1963, ISBN 3-928990-04-7 , p. 167 and p. 318
personal data
SURNAME Essinger, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor of the Jewish faith
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1942
Place of death Heilbronn