Kurt Eichenberg

1896 - 1987  (90 years)

• Name	Kurt Eichenberg
  Born	25 May 1896	Hamburg, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Biography	Lived in Berlin, Germany till the 1930s' No children with Brita. Kurt had a company that specialised in the food market. At first he produced ingredients for bakeries and thereafter imported various foodstuffs. After the war, my great-uncle on my mother's side, Kurt Eichenberg, a brother of my grandmother Tüt, lived in Stockholm with his second wife Sonja and their two daughters Crystel and Madeleine (known as Madde). Kurt was by all accounts a fairly successful businessman, but also a great eccentric, both in his business affairs and in his private life. He had been married first to Brita, whom he had met walking in the street in Berlin, Germany. The two escaped to Sweden in 1938 by bribing a German policeman to overlook the fact that their passports were not strictly valid for foreign travel. Two years later Brita left him for another man - apparently without regrets on either side - and they continued to be friends into old age. Kurt is said to have had a mistress who committed suicide because she was unable to live without him. He, so the story goes, sat with her body in the train taking her back to Germany for burial. He wrote a film script of this part of his early life (including his time in Turkey during the First World War) but was unsuccessful in finding a producer. He was nothing if not tenacious. He was bent on taking on the Swedish Crown in a lawsuit that had little hope of success; but he pursued it and subsequently lost his case at considerable cost to himself. Since portable telephones were yet to be invented, he had all the telephone cables in his home lengthened so that he could walk about with the receiver at his ear. Family tradition has it that on occasions he managed to entangle himself so hopelessly in the wire jungle that he had to be cut loose!  [1]
  Immigration	1938	Sweden
  Occupation	Food merchant
  Residence	Hamburg, Germany
  Residence	Berlin, Germany
  Residence	Stockholm, Sweden
  Died	7 Apr 1987	Stockholm, Sweden
  Person ID	I3609	Blank Family
  Last Modified	1 May 2011

  
  

  Father	Paul Eichenberg,   b. 15 Oct 1859, Adelebsen, Germany ,   d. 5 Mar 1927, Hamburg, Germany  (Age 67 years)
  Mother	Henriette Gertrude Hesse,   b. 17 Mar 1867, Germany ,   d. 28 Apr 1951, Stockholm, Sweden  (Age 84 years)
  Married	2 Feb 1886	Germany
  Family ID	F803	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Brita,   b. Yes - date unknown,   d. Yes - date unknown
  Married	Yes - date unknown
  Divorced	Yes - date unknown
  Divorced	Unknown
  	Divorced
  Last Modified	12 Jun 2005
  Family ID	F405	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Living
  Children	1. Living   2. Living
  Family ID	F404	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 25 May 1896 - Hamburg, Germany Immigration - 1938 - Sweden Residence - - Hamburg, Germany Residence - - Berlin, Germany Residence - - Stockholm, Sweden Died - 7 Apr 1987 - Stockholm, Sweden  = Link to Google Earth
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• Histories

  Paul & Gertrude House at Hoelderstein 8

  
  

• Sources

  [S34] E-mail message, from John Alexander.