Alwine Ettlinger (Simon)

Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs:

• Ettlinger, Alwine
• geborene Simon geboren am 06. März 1890 in Mannheim / - / Baden wohnhaft in Karlsruhe
• Deportation: ab Baden-Pfalz-Saarland 22. Oktober 1940, Gurs, Internierungslager Drancy, Sammellager 10. August 1942, Auschwitz, Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager
• Todesort: Auschwitz, Vernichtungslager

cf.: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Stolpersteine_in_Karlsruhe

&: http://gedenkbuch.informedia.de/gedenkbuch.php?PID=12&name=824

&: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=139523461

Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945

• Ettlinger, Alwine née Simon
• born on 06th March 1890 in Mannheim / - / Baden
• resident of Karlsruhe
• Deportation: from Baden-Pfalz-Saarland on 22nd October 1940, Gurs, internment camp
• Moved to Drancy, collecting detention camp
• Deported on 10th August 1942, Auschwitz, extermination camp
• Place of death: Auschwitz, extermination camp
• Source: http://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/en862974

Ettlinger, Alwine
Last name: Ettlinger
First name: Alwine
born: Simon
Birth date: March 6, 1890
Place of birth: Mannheim (Germany)
Marital status: widowed
Family: widow of Hugo E.; Mother of Ilse Irene and Lothar Reinhard
Address:
Wilhelmstr. 4
Profession:
housewife
Deportation:
October 22, 1940 to Gurs (France),
August 10, 1942 from Drancy to Auschwitz (Poland)
place of death:
Auschwitz (Poland)
Picture
Alwine Ettlinger, 1938. Portrait in the National Socialist "Jewish card"

biography
Hugo and Alwine Ettlinger

On June 26, 1935, Hugo Ettlinger chose to flee to his death.
From 1933, his company increasingly encountered economic difficulties. In 1935 it was transferred to an Aryaniser. In the same year he took his own life.

The portrait from the National Socialist Jewish index shows Alwine Ettlinger, née Simon, in 1938. At the time of the photograph, her existence was in ruins. As a young woman, she came to Karlsruhe in the early 1920s and started a family here. As the wife of a successful entrepreneur, she had attained wealth and prestige.

flashback
Hugo Ettlinger grew up in Bretten, where he was born on October 6, 1877. His parents are the merchant Lazarus Ettlinger and Minna, née Frohmann. They own a house at Brettener Melanchthonstraße 52. Hugo's brother Alfred is a year older.
In 1911, Hugo Ettlinger moved to Wilhelmstraße 4 in Karlsruhe to run the hide and fur business together with his brother Alfred.

Alwine Simon (born March 6, 1890) grew up in Mannheim. She is the daughter of Leopold Simon and his wife Karoline, née Loeb-Kahn.

On January 26, 1920, Alwine Simon and Hugo Ettlinger got married in Mannheim. Alwine gave birth to two children: Ilse Irene was born on December 7, 1920 and two years later, on February 3, 1923, Lothar Reinhard.
In 1930 her husband paid off his brother Alfred Ettlinger and continued to run the business as sole proprietor. Additional storage and business premises are rented at Ettlinger Strasse 1. A shorthand typist, a clerk, an accountant, two warehouse workers and a salesman are on the payroll. A fairly extensive undertaking compared to other businesses in this industry.
The family's private rooms are also in the building at Wilhelmstraße 4 in Südstadt - a working-class district. That may come as a surprise, because the Ettlingers have a lavish middle-class lifestyle. Mr. Ettlinger, a man full of life, wears tailored suits. A chauffeur takes him to his customers and suppliers. Wife Alwine is supported in her domestic duties by various servants: domestic help, washerwoman, cleaning lady and nanny. She finds diversion and edification in regular visits to the opera. The Ettlingers go on holiday trips twice a year. And the two children? Holiday camps provide a welcome change. The interior of the apartment tells of their bourgeois way of life: period furniture, piano, oil paintings, bookcase in the study. On special occasions, the silver cutlery is brought out and the dishes are served in Meissner porcelain. Christmas is celebrated with the employees every year. The Ettlingers run an open house. They often welcome guests.

But dark clouds are looming on the horizon. The year is 1933. Hitler's seizure of power. This year, Hugo Ettlinger's son Lothar is to switch from the garden school to the Humboldt Realgymnasium. But Jewish children are only allowed to attend German grammar schools to a limited extent. The mere fact that Hugo Ettlinger served as a German front-line soldier in World War I and was involved in the battle of Cirey (France, Northern Vosges) makes Lothar's admission possible.
The trades are getting worse from month to month. The Ettlingers have to limit themselves. Hugo's joy in life dwindles more and more, making way for a visibly deep depression. On the night of June 26, 1935 - he was 57 years old - he committed suicide. Alwine finds neither a will nor a farewell letter. She is now on her own with her two children Ilse Irene (14 years old) and Lothar Reinhard (12 years old) and has to see how she gets by. Because the business is transferred to an Ariseur - an employee of her husband - shortly before or after the death of her husband. A little later, daughter Ilse Irene moves away from Karlsruhe to complete an apprenticeship as a nurse. The son, Lothar Reinhard, was brought to safety in Great Britain in 1938.

Additional information about the children of the Ettlingers
The daughter, Ilse Irene, passed the nursing exam on October 21, 1940 and has since worked as a nurse in the Jewish hospital in Frankfurt am Main at Gagernstraße 36. In the mid-1950s she lived in New York and got married . Her health is going through tough times. Meningitis and a mild form of polio tie her to bed.
Her path was unknown for a long time. The assumption that she managed to escape from Germany in time turned out to be wrong. During a visit to the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany, Heidelberg, the archive director there, Mr. Honigmann, presented a finding aid of the displaced person camps in Berlin, where it is listed. According to this, her path can be reconstructed to the extent that she arrived in Berlin on June 29, 1945, marked by deportation, and went to Frankfurt on July 19, 1945, where she had lived before her ordeal. It turns out that she was last in the Stutthof concentration camp, prisoner number 71030. "Evacuations", so-called death marches, took place from this camp from January 25, 1945 before the approaching Red Army. including Chinow, around 150 km away, near the Pomeranian coast. Irene Ilse Ettlinger was liberated there on March 10, 1945. This means that she was among one of the deportations of Jews from Frankfurt am Main to ghettos and extermination camps that had begun in October 1941. Irene Ilse Ettlinger is thus a direct survivor of the Holocaust. Jewish committees in Bydgoszcz and Lodz gave her support after the liberation and arranged for her return via Berlin.

The son, Lothar Reinhard, was able to emigrate to Great Britain in 1938 at the age of 15. There he calls himself Elliot. First he works in a leather factory. In June 1940, the British begin to intern all Germans as enemy aliens and initially do not distinguish between refugees from Nazi Germany and actual Nazi supporters. Lothar Reinhard was released from internment in February 1941 and joined the British Army. At the time of his request for redress in 1957, he was single and had no children. He states his occupation as a leather technician/commercial clerk.

(Roland Schinko, August 2009, supplemented February 2012)