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Leopold Hüttner * 1889

Sechslingspforte (16) (Einfahrt Alsterschwimmhalle) (Hamburg-Nord, Hohenfelde)

1941 Lodz
ermordet 12.05.1943

further stumbling stones in Sechslingspforte (16) (Einfahrt Alsterschwimmhalle):
Cäcilie Hüttner, Gertrud Hüttner

Cäcilie Babette Hüttner, born on 8 Feb. 1888 in Hamburg, deported on 25 Oct. 1941 to Lodz
Gertrud Hüttner, born on 10 Apr. 1893 in Hamburg, deported on 18 Nov. 1941 to Minsk
Leopold Hüttner, born on 25 July 1889 in Hamburg, deported on 25 Oct. 1941 to Lodz

last residential address: Sechslingspforte 16

The three unmarried Hüttner siblings lived with their mother Rosa, née Philippson (born in 1859), in two houses that the family had obviously owned in the St. Georg and Hohenfelde quarters for a long time. By the late 1930s, the father, Heinrich Hüttner, born in 1845, had probably passed away quite some time ago. The siblings Cäcilie and Leopold, who were likely not working, and their mother Rosa (died in July 1938) lived in part on rental income from their houses at Sechslingspforte 16 and Schröderstrasse 1.

The younger sister Gertrud worked as a children’s nurse in Hamburg until Feb. 1936, though she left the Hanseatic city for a few years after becoming unemployed. She then returned, probably around late 1938, without finding a job in Hamburg at first, however. Until her temporary departure from the city, she had lived as a co-owner in the house on Schröderstrasse. In Dec. 1938, however, the siblings sold this house for a purchase price of 64,000 RM (reichsmark) to a man named Theodor Becker. They made only net proceeds of 14,000 RM, since the house was not free of debt. In 1939, Gertrud Hüttner lived with her two siblings in the house they still owned on Sechslingspforte.

At the end of Nov. 1939, the Hüttners were forced to sell this house as well. They had already agreed with the purchasers on a price of 70,000 RM, which was reduced after the fact, however, to 62,000 RM by order of the Reich Governor (Reichsstatthalter) dated 13 Feb. 1940. At the same time, a "levy on Jewish assets” ("Judenvermögensabgabe”) amounting to 6,750 RM was imposed on the Hüttners, and they were required to set up a blocked account with the Hamburger Sparcasse von 1827, which with the exception of 400 RM a month they could access only based on prior approval by the foreign currency office of the Chief Finance Administrator (Oberfinanzpräsident).

Around the turn of the year, sister Gertrud assumed the position of head of the Jewish nursing home for the elderly at Grünestrasse 5, also residing in the home from then on. Her siblings stayed in the house they had previously owned and rented out individual rooms to other Jewish people in distress. For instance, from Mar. to Sept. 1940, the physician’s widow Betty Engelmann, who had lived in Uhlenhorst before, resided with them for a monthly rent of 30 RM, until she was forced to move to the "Jews’ house” ("Judenhaus”) at Frickestrasse 24, from where she was deported to Theresienstadt in July 1942.

Cäcilie and Leopold Hüttner were spared the forced relocation within Hamburg; they were, however, among the 1,034 Jewish people deported to the Lodz Ghetto on 25 Oct. 1941, not to return from there. In the very end, their sister Gertrud was committed to the "Jews’ house” at Hochallee 66 and deported on 18 Nov. 1941 to Minsk, where ultimately all traces of her disappear.

Stolpersteine for Cäcilie and Leopold Hüttner are already located at Sechslingspforte 16, a third stumbling stone is to follow for their sister Gertrud.

Translator: Erwin Fink

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Stand: October 2016
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