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Julie und Alfred Hochfeld
© Julia Maria Hochfeld

Alfred Hochfeld * 1881

Lange Reihe 108 (Hamburg-Mitte, St. Georg)

1942 Theresienstadt
1944 Auschwitz ermordet

further stumbling stones in Lange Reihe 108:
Julie Hochfeld, Isidor Rothfels, Kurt Speyer

Alfred Hochfeld, born 23 April 1881 in Höxter
Julie Hochfeld, née Linz, born 27 Dec. 1880 in Rotenburg a. d. Fulda
Married, deported 15 July 1942 to Theresienstadt, deported onward to Auschwitz 15 May 1944

Last home address: Lange Reihe 108

The Hochfeld couple lived in the 1920s and until 1938 first on Forsmannstraße and at Jolassestieg 2 in Winterhude and at the end of 1938 moved to a sublet at Langen Reihe 108, whose main tenant at the time was Kurt Speyer (see below), also killed in 1943 at Auschwitz. Alfred Hochfeld was originally a butcher and practiced his occupation as a master of his trade with his own shop from 1908, initially on Banksstraße in Hammerbrook. In 1925 he apparently gave up this occupation and worked at his brother Julius’ furniture store in the Hamburger Altstadt as a driver delivering goods. However Julius Hochfeld immigrated in 1938 to the USA, thus leaving his brother Alfred unemployed.

The couple had a son by the name of Hans-Joachim (born 1911) who studied law until 1936 but could not finish his degree because he was not admitted to the final exam due to his Jewish background. From 1936 he worked as a trainee in masonry until he decided at the end of 1938 – still living with his parents – to immigrate to Brazil. This enabled him to escape his parent’s tragic fate.

In 1942 the Hochfeld couple was forced out of their small apartment in St. Georg and into the "Jewish house" at Kleiner Schäferkamp 32. It was from there that they were deported in July of the same year on a transport of 926 Jewish men and women of Hamburg to the Theresienstadt ghetto. Nearly two years later, in mid May 1944, they were deported on to Auschwitz extermination camp where all trace of Alfred and Julie Hochfeld was finally lost.
A Stolperstein already lies in front of the house at Lange Reihe 108 for Alfred Hochfeld. A further one will be added for his wife Julie.

Translator: Suzanne von Engelhardt

Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: October 2016
© Benedikt Behrens

Quellen: 1; 4; 8; AfW, Entschädigungsakte; StaH, 522-1, Jüdische Gemeinden, 992 e 2 (Deportationslisten).

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