Ingvar Enander was a passenger on Titanic.
Early life[]
Ingvar Enander was born in Gothenburg, Västergötland, Sweden on December 26, 1890 to Axel Wilhelm Enander and his wife Hilda Elisabeth Bohle. Axel was a wholesaler. Ingvar was the younger brother of Einar, who was born in 1886.
He became engaged to Dagmar Bryhl.
Ingvar studied agronomy and probably still lived with his parents at Olivedalsgatan 1 in Gothenburg in 1912. He traveled to the United States to enroll into further studies and wanted to see how agriculture worked over there. He received his moving certificate on 2 April 1912. He traveled with his fiancée Dagmar and her brother Kurt, who came along as an interpreter as neither Ingvar nor Dagmar were very good at English. All three of them were going to the siblings' uncle Oskar Lustig at 511 Pearl St. in Rockford.
Titanic[]
They had left the Southampton port on April 10 on the RMS Titanic. They traveled in Second Class. Ingvar was 21 years old at the time.
On April 14, the ship had struck an iceberg at late night. After the collision, Ingvar, Dagmar and Kurt were able to get up to the Boat Deck without difficulty. Ingvar had dressed carefully, but had noticed that Dagmar had not been given any shoes, but was on her way in just her slippers. Therefore he took her shoes with him. Ingvar wore a blue blazer suit and a gray ulster that was bought at Ströms in Gothenburg. He took his mother-of-pearl penknife with him, as well as a watch with a gold chain, a wallet with business cards, the tickets and a briefcase with huge contents, for example a ring in which was engraved "Ingwar 11/2 1912", a gold horseshoe pin, a napkin ring with Dagmar's name engraved, a silver necklace with a chain and a coral necklace.
Ingvar and Kurt were with Dagmar when she got into a lifeboat, but both of them, as well as Henrik Kvillner who was standing next to her, were refused permission to come along even though the boat was only half full. Ingvar gave Dagmar her shoes and she put them on. She gave the red slippers to Ingvar, who put them in the pocket of his ulster coat. They stood and watched her being hoisted down with the lifeboat.
While Dagmar survived, Ingvar and Kurt were lost in the sinking.
After his death[]
Ingvar’s parents started to worry what became of the three. Ingvar’s father wrote detailed letters to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding his son's clothing and also mentioned Dagmar's red slippers which he put in his pocket on the Boat Deck, but without success.
The parents did not apply for money from the charity fund in London and were too late to claim damages. On February 25, 1916, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to a request made by Ingvar's brother that "as the time for filing the lawsuit almost three years ago has passed, nothing can now be done."