Armin Theophil Wegner and Lola (Eleonora) Landau



Armin Theophil Wegner and Lola (Eleonora) Landau


Husband Armin Theophil Wegner 

           Born: Oct 16, 1886
     Christened: 
           Died: May 17, 1978 - Rome, Italy
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 

   Other Spouse: Irene Kowaliska

Wife Lola (Eleonora) Landau 

           Born: Dec 3, 1892 - Berlin, Germany
     Christened: 
           Died: Feb 3, 1990 - Jerusalem, Israel
         Buried: 


         Father: Theodor Landau
         Mother: Philippine Fulda


   Other Spouse: Siegfried Marck - 1914

Children
1 F Sibylle Wegner 

           Born: 1923
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Rex Stevens

General Notes: Wife - Lola (Eleonora) Landau

She was a writer. She was married first to Siegfried Marck a philosopher and Social Democrat from Breslau. They were married in 1914 and the marriage ended in 1920. Siegfried moved to the United States and was a professor of Philosophy at the Y MCA College in Chicago. He wrote several books on philosophy.

According to the dedication in the book Lola Landau: Leben und Werk, Lola had the following grandchildren: Ilan, Shlomit, John, Charlotte, Daniel, Alison, and Michael.

Lola Landua's second husband was the writer Armin Theophil Wegner who was not Jewish. They were married on November 9, 1920. Wegner opposed the Nazi regime and wrote an open letter to Adolf HItler as a protest. Since no newspaper would publis h his letter he delivered it to the Nazi pary headquarters in Munich asking them to forward it to Hitler. Soon he was arrested and tortured in the Columbia House prison in Berlin. He was sent to several concentration camps and prisons. Upon bei ng released he was able to escape to Italy. Under pressure from the Nazis he and Lola agreed to divorce. Wegner lived in Rome and died there on May 17, 1978. HIs second wife was Irene Kowaliska.

Lola and her children fled from Germany in 1936 and went to Palestine. She remained in Israel and died there on February 3, 1990.

IN 1967 Yad Vashem honored Armin T. Wegner as "Righteous among the Nations." The Yad Vashem website describes him as "the only German writer every to publicly raise his voice against the persecution of the Jews."

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