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Hans Redlich * 1887

Moltkestraße 47 a (Eimsbüttel, Hoheluft-West)

HIER WOHNTE
HANS REDLICH
JG. 1887
DEPORTIERT 1941
MINSK
ERMORDET

further stumbling stones in Moltkestraße 47 a:
Leopold Meier, Therese Meier, Georg Neumark, Blanka Redlich

Blanka Frieda Redlich, née Neumark, b. 25. Juli 1905 in Hamburg, deported 11.8.1941 to Minsk

Moltkestraße 47a and Bundesstraße 78 (Gymnasium Emilie-Wüstenfeld)

Hans Fritz Redlich, b. 10.6,1887 in Hamburg, deported am 11.8.1941 to Minsk
Georg Siegfried Neumark, b. 02.26.1931 in Hamburg, deported 11.8.1941 to Minsk

Moltkestraße 47a

Blanka Frieda Redlich was born on 7.25.1905, the oldest of three children of Alfred (b. 8.2.1877) and Helene (b. 7.2.1875) Neumark, née Nathan. She had two younger siblings, Alice (b. 6.26.1907) and Karl Neumark (b. 3.29.1909). The family lived at Haus Schwanenwik 27, on the shores of the Alster in the Uhlenhorst district of Hamburg. They rented a five-room dwelling there, in which the children spent a comfortable bourgeois life which included servant girls. After Alfred lost his job when the Seligmann and Mündheim firm went into liquidation around 1932 or 1933, the family had to sublease a place on Schlüterstrasse 9.

There are notes from the late 1920s found in the Hamburg State Archive concerning Blanka’s life, notably her occupation. In her application for reparations in the 1960s, her sister Alice Neumark reported that Blanka first attended a middle school and then the "Grone Business School." Blanka Redlich worked as a salesperson for various businesses and employers. For barely two years from 15 November 1927 she worked in sales for Hans Seul, a kitchen equipment business; then she worked for more than two years (from 1 March 1929 to 31 December 1931) at Trenner on Grindelallee, also a specialty store for kitchen equipment. During this time her son Georg was born, out of wedlock, on 2.26.1931.

The father of the child was Willy Bauer, five years younger than Blanka and probably also of Jewish descent. Although he still lived with his parents "in favorable circumstances" (according to Alfred Neumark), he paid no child support – this at a time when the Neumark family found itself in financial straits. From the public records it is clear that the relationship between Blanka Redlich and Willy Bauer was quite problematic. Willy Bauer was the father of the child, but Blanka’s father, Alfred Neumark, was appointed his legal guardian.

Shortly after the birth of her son, Blanka suffered severe appendicitis and was taken to the Siloah hospital on 6 October 1931. Her life was found to be in danger. In 1932, Blanka was unemployed for eight and one half months. Subsequently, she was hired by the Firm "Daniel Gutter" on Danzigerstrasse where she earned 60 RM a month. She worked there until January 31, 1933.

Alice Neumark recalled later that Blanka was fired on "racial grounds." Sometime later she found a new position, also as a salesperson in the "Zenkum" store, where she was employed from 11 May 1935 to 31 May 1936. After that she found a new job as a domestic in the private household of Dr. Wolff, where she remained for four months. Her final position lasted six weeks and was with the "Ewo" store which she left on 24 December 1936; thereupon she withdrew from her working life. Between 1932 and 1937, Blanka Neumark applied for unemployment benefits or crisis support because her father’s income did not suffice to support a family of six.

Presumably, in 1937 Blanka Neumark married Hans Redlich (b. 10.6.1887), a chemical products broker, eighteen years her senior. The pair moved into a shared dwelling at Beim Hirtenkaten 8. However, Georg remained with his grandparents at the Schlüterstrasse address, since Alfred Neumark was his legal guardian. The Redlich couple moved in 1939 to Borgfelder Strasse 66, then to Klosterallee 4, and finally, as sub-lessees, on 1 March 1940 to Moltkestrasse 47a in the Hoheluft district (near Bernthal). It was from this address that Blanka and Hans Redlich were deported to Minsk on 8 November 1941. Hans Redlich was not originally on the deportation list, but he reported voluntarily for "evacuation"; otherwise he would have been left behind, alone, in Hamburg. Blanka Redlich sought in vain to be reimbursed for the half month’s rent her parents had paid to the sub-lessor. Gustav Quarck, the sub-lessor, maintained that the dwelling was completely bug-infested and that he had to have it fumigated by an exterminator.

His grandparents emigrated without their grandson Georg, who was left behind with his mother Blanka in Hamburg. Georg Neumark was deported to Minsk with his mother and stepfather Hans Redlich. Initially, Georg’s commemorative stone was erroneously placed at Grindelallee 21/23, but has since been moved in 2012 to Moltkestrasse 47a.

Blanka’s sister Alice went to France in the 1930s and was deported from Paris to the concentration camp at Gurs; she was released from there and managed until war’s end to live underground with false papers in Montauban. After the war, she went to Argentina and in the 1950s and 1960s made reparation applications for her murdered sister and father.

Alfred Neumark died on 10.29.1952 in Buenos Aires; we do not know Helene’s date of death. Karl married there and has in the meantime also passed away.


Translator: Richard Levy

Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: November 2017
© Nelly Birgmeier, Anika Reineke (leicht überarbeitet v. B. Meyer)

Quellen: 1; 4; StaH, N 915, Fürsorgeakten für die Familie Neumark, in: StaH, 351-11, Amt für Wiedergutmachung, Abl. 2008/1, 26607 Neumark Alice; StaH, 351-11, Amt für Wiedergutmachung, Abl. 2008/1, 26607 Neumark Alice; StaH, 522-1, Jüdische Gemeinden, 992 e 1, Bd. 2, Transportlisten der deportierten Hamburger Juden, Transport nach Minsk am 8.11.1941; StaH 621-1/85, 414 Konsulent Walter Schüler; Schriftliche Auskunft vom 26.1.2008 von Hildegard Thevs.
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