Harry L. Ettlinger

Harry L. Ettlinger

President George W. Bush presents the 2007 National Humanities Medal for the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art to, from left, Robert Edsel and World War II veterans Jim Reeds, Seymour Pomrenze, Harry L. Ettlinger, and Horace Apgar.

President George W. Bush presents the National Humanities Medal to the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art. From left, Robert Edsel and World War II veterans Jim Reeds, Seymour Pomrenze, Harry L. Ettlinger, and Horace Apgar (2007).
Born Heinz Ludwig Chaim Ettlinger
(1926-01-28) January 28, 1926
Karlsruhe, Germany
Nationality American
Occupation Engineer


Heinz Ludwig Chaim Ettlinger (born January 28, 1926) was one of the Monuments Men. After leaving the service he attended Newark College of Engineering (now New Jersey Institute of Technology) on the GI bill, graduating with a BS in mechanical engineering in 1950. On October 22, 2015, Ettlinger and Richard Barancik, a fellow Monuments Man, were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.[1]

Biography

Harry Ettlinger was born in Karlsruhe, Germany on January 28, 1926. He migrated from Germany with his parents and his two brothers in September of 1938. When they arrived in the United States they first lived in Manhattan eventually settling in Newark, New Jersey.[2][3]

In popular culture

In the film The Monuments Men the character Sam Epstein is based on Ettlinger and played by Dimitri Leonidas.

References

  1. ↑ ""Monument Man" Harry Ettlinger '50 Receives Congressional Gold Medal". New Jersey Institute of Technology. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
  2. ↑ "The Last of the Monuments Men". New Yorker. Retrieved 2015-01-25.
  3. ↑ "Harry Ettlinger". The Monuments Men. Retrieved 2015-01-25.

Further reading


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