1896 - 1987 (90 years)
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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 |
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Last Modified |
12 Jun 2005 |
Family ID |
F405 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Sources |
- [S34] E-mail message, from John Alexander.
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