Courage Steiner
Adolf Wohlgemuth "courage" Steiner (born May 31, 1876 in Stuttgart ; † September 13, 1957 in Laupheim ) was a German farmer and forester .
Life
Steiner was the son of Kilian von Steiner and Clothilde born. Bacher. He still had two half-sisters Henriette and Emilie from his mother's first marriage and the biological siblings Viktor and Luise. After his time at the grammar school in Stuttgart, he studied at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and at the University of Hohenheim with a degree in agriculture. During this time he completed a voluntary year with the Dragoon Regiment "Queen Olga" (1st Württemberg) No. 25 and was active in the Corps Teutonia Stuttgart .
At the age of 27, after the death of his father in 1903, he became the sole owner of Großlaupheim Castle. At the same time he took over the associated broad-based agricultural business ( dairy , cheese dairy , gardening , poultry farming , brewery , cattle breeding , grassland , arable farming and forestry ) of the plant with around 15 employees. In 1904 he married Ruth von Kalkreuth, who was doing an internship at the Großlaupheim Castle Dairy. He and Ruth had two children, Marie-Luise Clothilde, born in 1905, and Ulrich Kilian Siegfried (* 1908). During the First World War , as a patriotic German , he invested large parts of his mobile assets in war bonds that were devalued at the end of the war.
During his time as landowners crossed it, in collaboration with the University of Hohenheim, which preserved to this day Dinkel places "Steiner Red Tyroler spelled" and in his Brown Swiss herd Rigi and Montafon cattle one. He was chairman of the Brown Cattle Breeding Association, representative in the agricultural trade association, district chairman of the youth services of the Laupheim regional office and member of the Laupheim economic office. The local soccer club Olympia Laupheim got to know him as a generous patron. From 1905 to 1929 he left the cattle pasture “Im Grund” to the club as a sports field.
During the time of National Socialism he had to give up all his offices and honorary posts or let them rest. “Steiner's race status” was declared with four direct Jewish ancestors, derived from the race table at that time, as “ full Jew who lived in a privileged mixed marriage ”, although he had converted to the Protestant faith in 1894 . The National Socialist authorities recommended that the couple divorce. From now on Steiner had to add the addition "Israel" to his name. A “J” for Jew was stamped on his passport. The couple did not follow the recommendation, which ultimately protected them from deportation and expropriation of their property. After the war, Mut lived in seclusion in his castle until his death in 1957. His wife died in 1955.
Mut's son sold the palace and palace gardens to the city of Laupheim in 1961. The building is now home to the Museum of the History of Christians and Jews , which documents the 200 years of harmonious coexistence between Christians and Jews in Upper Swabia until it was destroyed by the Nazis.
literature
- Ges. Für Geschichte und Gedenken: The Jewish community of Laupheim and its destruction: biographical outlines of its members as of 1933 , created by a working group of the “Society for History and Remembrance eV” Laupheim. Red. And Ed .: Antje Köhlerschmidt; Karl Neidlinger; 2009.
Web links
- DM Einstein - The department store on the website of the memorial book on the Jewish community in Laupheim and its destruction
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Jewish community of Laupheim and its destruction: Adolf Wohlgemuth Steiner online, accessed on November 28, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steiner, courage |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steiner, Adolf Wohlgemuth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German farmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1957 |
| Place of death | Laupheim |