Victor Caillé

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Victor Caillé (born June 30, 1882 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † October 23, 1958 in Hanover-Limmer ) was a German entrepreneur and local politician in Königsberg.

Life

Victor Caillé was the son of Henri Caillé and his wife Julie nee. Knauer . Henri was one of the founders of the Caillé & Lebelt dye works and cleaning company, which opened in 1875 on the Unterhaberberg in Königsberg. It was the largest in East Prussia and employed 300 people. It operated long after the Second World War .

Victor attended the old town high school and studied chemistry at the Albertus University in Königsberg . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Königsberg . “In the Reich” he gained practical experience. Caillé was probably the only one to receive the rescue medal on ribbon three times (Prussia) . During the First World War he received several awards and was promoted to captain of the reserve .

In Königsberg, Caillé was a city ​​councilor , member of the district committee, chairman of the supervisory board of the cold store and owner of other positions of trust. He resigned his mandate as city councilor in 1933 when the National Socialists came to power . Friends of the brothers Karl Friedrich Goerdeler and Fritz Goerdeler , he was arrested by the Gestapo in December 1944 and taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Caillé survived the death march to Schwerin only thanks to the help of the Königsberg doctor Rieber, who was also arrested . From 1946 he lived with his wife with his old friend and professional colleague Stichweh in Hanover .

family

In 1919 Caillé married Mathilde Michaelis, a daughter of the architect Georg Michaelis . The marriage resulted in three daughters and one son. One son-in-law, Pastor Rüter in Dönhofstädt , died in the western campaign , the other, Major Hildebrandt, in the German-Soviet War ; the third, Pastor Tielker, was seriously wounded in the battle of Königsberg and was taken prisoner by the Soviets . He survived and became a clergyman in Dortmund . The youngest son became a technician.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in the Ostpreußenblatt of November 8, 1958, p. 16.
  2. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, p. 55
  3. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 34.
personal data
SURNAME Caillé, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1958
Place of death Hanover-Limmer