Siegbert Einstein

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Siegbert Einstein (born October 25, 1889 in Buchau , † December 24, 1968 in Riedlingen ) was a German politician , factory worker, civil servant and Holocaust survivor.

life and career

Siegbert Einstein, born into a Jewish family in Buchau, was the second son of Martin Einstein and Sally Dreyfus Einstein and a great-nephew of Albert Einstein . He was married to Elsa Schlitter. He had two sons with her, Rolf Einstein and Kurt Einstein. Einstein's children were baptized Protestants and thus belonged to the denomination of his wife Elsa.

Einstein was a soldier in World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross and the Order of Frederick. He ran a cloth shop under the name "Einstein & Erlanger" at Schussenriederstrasse 29 and later at Inselstrasse 9 in Buchau. After he had ended the fabric trade in 1938, he went to Riedlingen to work as a worker in a dairy . On February 21, 1945 Einstein was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp , survived and returned to Buchau at the end of June 1945. At the end of the following year he became deputy mayor of Bad Buchau and responsible for the Jewish community in Bad Buchau. In 1959, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for his efforts in the city of Buchau.

He died in Riedlingen in 1968 and was the last Jew to be buried in the Jewish cemetery in Bad Buchau .

Awards

literature

  • Joseph Mohn: The ordeal under the swastika. From the history of the city and monastery of Buchau am Federsee , ed. from the city of Bad Buchau, Bad Buchau 1970.
  • Charlotte Mayenberger : Jews in Buchau . (District of Biberach - History and Culture, Volume 8), Federsee-Verlag, Bad Buchau 2008.
  • Andrea Hoffmann: Intersections and dividing lines: Jews and Christians in Upper Swabia . Tübingen Association for Folklore, 2011, ISBN 3-932-51269-3 , page 276.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bad Buchau - texts / reports on the Jewish history of the place Collection of texts on alemania-judica.de. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c From Buchau to Theresienstadt Booklet for the Theresienstadt exhibition. Retrieved November 7, 2018 (pdf)
  3. ↑ Buchauer Nachrichten History of the Buchauer Jews on judeninbuchau.de. Retrieved November 7, 2018 (pdf)
  4. ↑ a b Jews in Buchau Description of the cemetery on juedische-friedhoefe.info. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  5. ↑ Buchau itself seemed very dead to me Article on schwäbische.de. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  6. ↑ Buchau - An Extinct Jewish Community Article on page 7 in the AJR Information from December 1971. Retrieved on November 7, 2018. (pdf) (English)
personal data
SURNAME Einstein, Siegbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, factory worker, civil servant and Holocaust survivor
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchau
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1968
Place of death Riedlingen