Translations:Otto Eckart (Da VIII 23)/16/en

Anita Eckart died at the age of 52 years on June 21, 1939, even before the start of World War II. In the time that followed, Otto Eckart gave more and more responsibility to his first-born son Werner and his daughter-in-law Anny Eckart for managing the family company’s business. Besides her role in the company "Otto Eckart", Anny now took care of the household in Pienzenauerstrasse and nursed her father-in-law Otto who soon became seriously ill. Apart from Werner, who was considered "indispensable" due to his occupation in the company, all of Otto’s sons were drafted into the Wehrmacht, Germany’s armed forces. Before Otto died in Munich at the age of 65 years on December 13, 1942, he had to live through the deaths of his sons Klaus and Fritz Eckart, who died in a war which he, as a member of the "Stahlhelm" and his company as important supplier of the Wehrmacht, had helped prepare.