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General First nameArnold Eugen
LastnameEsche
GenderMale
CountryGermany
Date of birth1880-08-03
Place of birthChemnitz, Sachsen, Germany
Date of death1967-05-23
Place of deathZwickau, Sachsen, Germany


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The following piece was translated and slightly adapted from the original German article, which can be accessed here:
https://www.geni.com/people/Arnold-Esche/6000000029781186837#

Arnold Esche was born in Chemnitz in August 1880. In 1907, he commissioned the Belgian architect and interior designer Henry van de Velde to extensively convert and expand the manor house in Lauterbach near Crimmitschau in Saxony. This building had been his family’s hunting lodge and manor house since the middle of the nineteenth century (1843). The highly complex conversion work was completed at the end of 1908. The surrounding agricultural area was 181 hectares in size, which was rather modest for a manor of the time, and was largely leased out until 1945, when it was still owned by the Esche family.

Arnold Esche remained in Saxony after the expropriation of his property by the Soviet military administration circa 1946/47. However, he was no longer allowed to enter his former property in Lauterbach. Instead he had to keep within a radius of at least 20 kilometres of it. Nevertheless, he kept in touch with the residents of Lauterbach, whom he knew and who, despite an express ban, buried him in the local cemetery in 1967.

After 1945, Arnold Esche, the formerly wealthy son of a large family of industrialists from Chemnitz, worked as a day labourer. However, despite the hardships of this completely reduced human existence, he refused to leave his homeland to the last. He died unmarried in Zwickau in May 1867 at the age of 86.

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Archive statistics Career1909 - 1909
Tournament wins0
Matches2
Match wins1


Tournaments Chamionships of Chemnitz - 1909