Siegmund German

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Siegmund Richard Deutsch (born March 9, 1864 in Neu-Raussnitz , Moravia , † October 26, 1942 in Theresienstadt ) was a German civil engineer and university professor .

life and work

Nothing is known about Siegmund Deutsch's training course and the beginnings of his career. In 1898 he lived in Hüningen, from where he probably moved to Elberfeld shortly afterwards . With his wife Clara Johanna, geb. Fleischer, he had three children: Felicitas (born November 9, 1898 in Hüningen), Ilse Franziska (born February 23, 1900 in Elberfeld, † after July 28, 1942 in Theresienstadt) and Curt Anton Martin Deutsch (born October 21, 1905 in Münster ).

Stumbling stone in front of the house at Walther-Rathenau-Strasse 13, Cologne-Rodenkirchen

In Elberfeld he worked for about a year as a teacher at the state building trade school. The family lived on Brüningstrasse in Elberfeld at the time. In 1900 he moved to Münster in the house Fürstenstraße 14. Later Siegmund Deutsch lived with his family in the houses Augustastraße 26a and Hammer Straße 12. In Münster, German also taught at the building trade school, meanwhile as a senior teacher . In this phase of his life he also wrote his two-volume work Der Wasserbau , which appeared in Leipzig in 1906 and became one of the standard works on hydraulic engineering. Construction machines for civil engineering and building construction followed in 1913 .

In 1907, German was transferred to the Cologne building trade school as a lecturer . There he lived first in house Salierring 61, then from 1915 to around 1932 in house Rolandstrasse 70. From 1914, Siegmund Deutsch was listed in the Cologne address books with the title of professor , alongside official titles such as Studienrat (from 1922) and Oberstudienrat (from 1927). In 1929 he was retired ; but he continued to teach at the building trade school in Cologne. His lectures focused on building physics and building materials science. Around 1932 Siegmund Deutsch, who had been renting a property up to that time, moved into his own home at Walther-Rathenau-Strasse 13 in Cologne-Rodenkirchen . He lived in this house with his wife and daughters until 1938, although Felicitas, who worked as a middle school teacher, had only moved in with her parents and sister in 1935. In 1935, Deutsch, who had converted to the Protestant Confession , was excluded from the AIV , to which he had belonged since 1910 , for racial reasons .

The house on Walther-Rathenau-Strasse is likely to have been the last self-determined residence in Germany. For his wife and daughter Ilse Franziska, Maternusstraße in Rodenkirchen has been handed down as the next address. Presumably they lived there in house number 6. For Siegmund Deutsch himself only Rodenkirchen is recorded as the last place of residence. He was with his wife and daughter Ilse Franziska on 27 July 1942 to Theresienstadt deported . Deutsch and his wife perished there; According to the death report, Siegmund Deutsch is said to have suffered from "calcification of the brain" and died of "cardiac muscle degeneration". Daughter Ilse Franziska was taken to the Auschwitz extermination camp on May 15, 1944 , where her trace is lost. No information is available about the fate of Siegmund Deutsch's other two children.

Stumbling blocks for Siegmund, Johanna and Ilse Franziska Deutsch were laid in front of the house at Walther-Rathenau-Straße 13 in Cologne-Rodenkirchen .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorial book - Victims of the persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist tyranny in Germany 1933-1945 on bundesarchiv.de
  2. ↑ a b Image reproduction of the death announcement on www.holocaust.cz (In this document the religion “Mosaic” is indicated.)
  3. ↑ The different date of birth April 3, 1864 in the victim database on www.holocaust.cz is sufficiently refuted by the reproduction of the death report.
  4. ↑ It is not known which Hüningen it was; both the place near Osnabrück and the one in Alsace are possible .
  5. ↑ Michael Werling : Architecture teacher at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences. Part I. The alumni. Cologne 2006, p. 27. ( online as PDF )
  6. ^ Commemorative book entry for German, Ilse Franziska on bundesarchiv.de
personal data
SURNAME German, Siegmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES German, Siegmund Richard; German, Sigmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Neu-Raussnitz , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1942
Place of death Theresienstadt concentration camp