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Dr. Martin Tebrich * 1880
Hammer Landstraße 39 (Hamburg-Mitte, Hamm)
1943 Theresienstadt
1944 Auschwitz ermordet
further stumbling stones in Hammer Landstraße 39:
Ruth Tebrich
Martin Tebrich, MD, born 27 July 1880, deported 23 June 1943 to Theresienstadt, deported 16 Oct. 1944 to Auschwitz
Ruth Tebrich, née Schindler, born 12 Dec. 1896, deported 23 June 1943 to Theresienstadt, deported 16 Oct. 1944 to Auschwitz
On 2 Nov. 1942 Max Plaut wrote regarding Martin Tebrich: "… if he no longer needs hospital care, he must move to Beneckestraße. Whether or not he will migrate to Theresienstadt or the East depends on his age. If he is over 65 years of age, he will be put on the next transport to Theresienstadt. In that event, his wife would join him, even though she is younger than 65."
The Tebrichs had already been deferred twice from transports to the East, from the first to Lodz on 25 Oct. 1941 and from the fifth transport on 11 July 1942 with an undeclared destination. The reason given in July 1942 was, "she was declared unfit for transport, he infirm”. By then Martin Tebrich and his wife Ruth had already moved out of their home at Heimhuderstraße 70 into the nursing home at Schäferkampsallee 25/27. Martin Tebrich had to be treated repeatedly at the hospital. His wife helped out at the nursing home to the best of her ability. They both were trying to avoid being deported. They feared that moving into a nursing home would quickly lead to their deportation, and they had had to spend the majority of their assets to stay in the home on Beneckestraße. They likewise delayed purchasing a home in Theresienstadt. Martin Tebrich and his wife had generated considerable assets for their retirement, he as a medical specialist for surgery and dermatology and she assisting in his practice.
In spring 1943, the Tebrichs finally moved to the close quarters of a room at Beneckestraße 2. From there they were deported to Theresienstadt, even though Martin Tebrich at that time was only 62 years old.
Martin Tebrich was born on 27 July 1880 in Kamenz. He had eight siblings. Three went to Hamburg. Martin became a medical doctor like his older brother Paul who died in 1933. The youngest of the "Hamburg brothers”, Ludwig, became an engineer and was married to Martha, née Weinberg. Martin Tebrich had come to Hamburg in 1912. In 1921 he opened his practice and married Ruth Schindler from Tost in Upper Silesia who was 16 years his junior. They married in Chemnitz. In 1922 they joined the German-Israelite Community of Hamburg. The following year their son Kurt was born.
After the inflation years, their financial situation continually improved. In 1934 Kurt changed from elementary school to Hindenburg High School at Brekelbaumspark, which he left in Nov. 1938. At the age of 15 he went to Great Britain where he attended a Secondary School in Edinburgh. Like all "enemy aliens", he was interned in 1940, first in Surrey and then Canada. In the meantime, his parents gave up their apartment on Hammer Landstraße and moved to Heimhuderstraße 70, a building belonging to Jewish Community.
There is no evidence that Martin and Ruth Tebrich ever tried to emigrate. So they followed, with some delay, his brother Ludwig and his wife Martha Tebrich to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, while their sons were able to save themselves.
Translator: Suzanne von Engelhardt
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.
Stand: March 2019
© Hildegard Thevs
Quellen: 1; 2; 4; 5; 7; StaH, 522-1, Jüdische Gemeinden, o. Sign. Mitgliederzählung der DIGH 1928; 390 Wählerverzeichnis 1930; 391 Mitgliederliste 1935; 992 e 2 Deportationslisten Bd. 5; 992 n Fürsorgewesen, Band 32; BA Bln., Volkszählung 1939; AfW 140923; persönliche Mitteilungen einer Angehörigen.
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