Heinrich Wohlwill

Heinrich Wohlwill (7 February 1874 – 31 January 1943) was a German-Jewish engineer of electrochemistry.

Early life Wohlwill was born in Hamburg, in the German Empire, on 7 February 1874, the third of five children of well-known engineer of electrochemistry, Emil Wohlwill. Heinrich Wohlwill had two older siblings: Marie Wohlwill and Sophie Wohlwill, and two younger siblings: Gretchen Wohlwill and Joachim Friedrich Wohlwill.

Death Wohlwill received the deportation letter in Hamburg on 17 July 1942, during the widespread Jewish discrimination in Germany during the Holocaust. Three days later, on 20 July 1942, Wohlwill and his wife Henriette Wohlwill were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Terezín. On 31 January 1943, Wohlwill died during his placement in Theresienstadt camp.