Hello Stammbaum,
to make things even more confusing Günther Eben only died in 1961 (Maier, 2015)! So was Ilse a trigamist? Or did she think it looked simply better to present herself as a tragic double-widow than to admit divorce(s)? Divorced once after a few years of marriage can be bad luck. When you're divorced twice after a short time it could lead to the idea that the fault is actually in the personality of the double-divorcee.
Eben is quite a rare family name in Germany with just 173 entries in the current phone book.
I've combed through the Berlin address books 1920 - 1943 (
http://www.zlb.de/besondere-angebote/be ... echer.html) and looked for Günther Eben. The first time Eben appears in the 1928 edition where he's listed as
Dr.-Ing., living in Berlin-Steglitz,
Birkbuschstraße 61.
For the years 1929 to 1931 his address remains the same but he's now registered as
Dr. rer. nat., Ing.[enieur]. So he held a doctorate in natural sciences after previously having graduated as an
Ingenieur already.
In the address book for 1932 Eben doesn't figure at all.
In 1933 he's back in town, now living in Berlin-Nikolassee,
Alemannenstraße 11. Despite their marriage Ilse remains registered under
Hohenzollernplatz 1 in Berlin-Nikolassee. Actually it's the same tenement block in both cases. The front door is
Hohenzollernplatz 1
and the back door is
Alemannenstraße 11. Was Ilse just too lazy to go to the citizen registration office (
Einwohnermeldeamt) and have her address corrected? In 1933 the profession of Günther Eben was recorded as
Dr., technischer Hilfsarbeiter.
For 1934 there's no entry for Eben in the Berlin address book.
In 1935 he's registered again, now as a
Dr. and
Regierungsrat, living in Berlin-Nikolassee,
Hohenzollernplatz 1 just like Ilse.
Regierungsrat means he's an official now in the public service and is in the career track for
Höhere Beamte (higher officials), the highest class (hierarchy low to high:
einfacher Dienst, mittlerer Dienst, gehobener Dienst, höherer Dienst).
In the 1936 edition there are no changes.
In 1937 there's no entry for him in that year's Berlin address book.
In 1938 he's listed again with the same data as in 1935 and 1936. That's the last time he's in Berlin's address books. In all subsequent years there's no mention of an 'Eben, Günther'.
Fishing with GoogleBooks I came to the following notice:
Reichspatentamt
Er nannt: zum Direktor des Reichspatentamts Oberregierungsrat Arnold;
zu Oberregierungsräten und Mitgliedern der Beschwerde-Abteilungen des Reichspatentamts die Oberregierungsräte Mirau und Dr. Starck;
zum Oberregierungsrat und Mitglied des Reichspatentamts Oberregierungsrat Dipl.-Ing. Meyerhoff vom Reichsentschädigungsamt für Kriegsschäden;
zu Regierungsräten und Mitgliedern des Reichspatentamts die Regierungsräte Grey, Böhlhoff, Beckmann und Paul Hoffmann;
zu Regierungsräten die technischen Hilfsarbeiter Dipl.-Ing. Krauß, Dr.-Ing. Nobis, Dr. Grote und Dipl.Ing. Krause.
Als technische Hilfsarbeiter in das Beamten - verhältnis übernommen: die Hilfsarbeiter auf Privatdienstvertrag Dipl.-Ing Klosmann, Dr.-Ing. Donat und Dr. Kittler.
Eingestellt: zur Beschäftigung als rechtskundiger Hilfsreferent Oberregierungsrat Dr. Meyer vom Reichsausgleichsamt;
als Hilfsarbeiter auf Privatdienstvertrag Dr. Rudolph, Ing. Langbein, Reg.-Baumeister a. D. Dipl.-Ing. Seiderer, Dipl.-Ing. von Gavel, Dipl.-Ing. Götze, Dr. Heine, Dipl.-Ing. Hassert, Dipl.-Ing Ziethen, Dipl.-Ing. Raeck, Dr. Eben, Dr. Hermann Schmidt, Dipl.-Ing. Fuß, ...
Source:
Zeitschrift für Eisenbahnwesen und Verkehrstechnik (Glasers Annalen), Ausgaben 106 & 107, 1930, p. XXIV
With the scarcity of the family name there cannot have been very many 'Dr. Eben' at the time. The snippet also shows that the term
technische[r] Hilfsarbeiter from the 1933 address book was a future career step Dr. Eben had not reached then. But if he continued his further career would get him there and then later to the title
Regierungsrat.
That Eben was in the public sercice as a chemist can be derived from a table published in Maier (2015). This 1934 table shows Eben as a
Fachgruppen-Verbindungsmann of the
VdCh (
Verein Deutscher Chemiker, Association of German Chemists) where he headed the committe for
Beamtenfragen, dealing with all questions related to chemists working as officials in the public service. If Eben was at the
Reichspatentamt [Reich Office for Patents and Brands] it would have been perfectly natural for him to be in this committee.
After WW II I've found a Dr. rer. sc. nat. Günther Eben who lived in Munich and worked as a self-employed
Patentanwalt (patent attorney). His address according to Adressbuch (1953, p.86):
München-Schwabing, Agnesstraße 39 / 3rd floor. Maier (2015) obviously had a good nose when he speculated that this man may be the former
VdCh functionary Dr. Eben from Berlin.
References:
Adressbuch deutscher Chemiker 1953/54.
Verlag Chemie; Weinheim; 1953
http://tinyurl.com/pej8onw
Maier, Helmut
Chemiker im "Dritten Reich".
Die Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft und der Verein Deutscher Chemiker im NS-Herrschaftsapparat.
Wiley VCH; Weinheim; 2015
http://tinyurl.com/ptgeyl7
[GoogleBooks version without pagination]
Best regards
Torsten
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