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Hella Müller (née Jacobson) * 1866
Neumünstersche Straße 32 (Hamburg-Nord, Hoheluft-Ost)
1942 Theresienstadt
1942 Treblinka ermordet
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Hella Müller, née Jacobson, born on 1 Oct.1866 in Ribnitz, deported on 15 July 1942 to Theresienstadt, deported further on 21 Sept. 1942 to Treblinka
Neumünstersche Strasse 32
Hella Müller’s parents, the merchant Julius Jacobson and his wife Mathilde, née Jacobson, both came from Crivitz in Mecklenburg.
Julius Jacobson was the son of the merchant Levi Jacobson and his wife Henriette, née Liebreich. He passed away in Ribnitz on 28 May 1909 at the age of 76.
Probably, as "a merchant from Crivitz,” he had become a protected resident (Schutzbürger) of Ribnitz in 1862 and a full citizen of the town in 1868. A man by the name of Jacob Jacobson is listed with these data in the register of citizens. Since there was only one Jacobson in Ribnitz, once can assume that this was Julius.
Hella’s mother, Mathilde Jacobson, was the daughter of the merchant Abraham Jacobson and his wife Elise, née Liebreich. It seems as though Hella’s grandfathers were brothers and married the Liebreich sisters – Hella’s later grandmothers.
Mathilde Jacobson passed away on 21 May 1909, seven days before her husband died. She was 69 years old.
Hella Müller had a sister two years her junior, Erna, who was also born in Ribnitz, on 24 Sept. 1864. In 1886, she married the merchant Max Marcus from Schwan, and reportedly, she moved to Berlin at some point. We have no further details about her subsequent life. In 1933, Paul Kühl wrote in Geschichte der Stadt und des Klosters Ribnitz, a history of the city and monastery of Ribnitz, "The Julius Jacobson Company … also existed for a long time at Lange Strasse 37 … as a yard goods store. On the side, Jacobson … was an agent of Mecklenburgische Bank, based in Schwerin, helping many a Ribnitz resident in need with advice and support. For many years, he belonged to the board of the school for small children.” The school for small children had been the city’s first kindergarten founded in 1874. Other Jewish families were also involved in this venture. At the time of Hella’s birth, Ribnitz was home to about 20 Jewish families. In the years from 1860 to 1900, the number of persons fluctuated between approx. 50 and 90 with a downtrend, according to the City Archive.
Hella Jacobson was married on 11 Feb. 1891 in her first marriage to the merchant Albert Meyer, born on 7 July 1860 in Grünberg, a resident of Berlin. Probably she moved to Berlin with him. After only one year, the marriage was divorced by the Berlin Regional Court I (Landgericht I Berlin). Consequently, Hella returned to Ribnitz.
On 28 July 1896, she married Georg Müller in Hamburg. Born on 1 July 1855, from Hamburg, and also a divorcee, he was the son of the merchant Selig Gerson Müller and his wife Fanny Müller, née Burchard. Georg Müller had one son from his first marriage, Hans, who subsequently emigrated to the USA with his family.
In Nov. 1897, Hella and Georg had a son they named Siegmund Jacob. The half brothers Hans and Siegmund had a very close relationship, and their children in turn – Hans’ daughter Ruth, born in about 1919, and Siegmund’s son Wolfgang (two years younger) – were very fond of each other as well. Wolfgang Müller remembered visits together with Ruth at his grandmother’s place. However, he visited the grandmother quite seldom, as he stated. At the time (probably in the early to mid-1930s), Hella Müller lived a very withdrawn life and appeared to the child as boring and drab. Vis-à-vis the Christians in the family, she reportedly kept her distance, though not practicing her own religion very rigorously. Grandfather Georg Müller was apparently funny and lively, but he probably passed away before Wolfgang’s birth. He traded in tobacco goods, operating a tobacco store near Neumünstersche Strasse.
In terms of occupation, Hans and Siegmund were both export merchants.
Due to his professional work as an overseas sales representative, Siegmund had contacts in many countries. At the end of 1938, he evaded the November Pogrom by not returning home from a business trip, instead traveling to Switzerland. Thanks to the help of his employers there, he managed to emigrate with his family to Colombia in 1939. His son Wolfgang worked with him at the office. When Siegmund, struck by lightning, died in 1943, Wolfgang continued to manage the business. In the 1970s, he returned to Hamburg to spend the second half of his life there.
The following addresses are listed in Hella Müller’s Jewish religious tax (Kultussteuer) card file that was started in 1913: Eilbek, Friedenstrasse, then according to the 1933 Hamburg directory, Neumünstersche Strasse 32. This was likely the last place of residence of her own choosing; afterward, due to financial straits, she probably lived as a subtenant with Rosenstein at Bogenstrasse 63 on the third floor. After only six weeks, she moved to Innocentiastrasse 21 in Aug. 1936 and in Oct. 1938 to Harvestehuder Weg 105. From May 1942 onward, she found accommodation in the Jewish retirement home at Schäferkampsallee 27. From there, the 76-year-old woman had to set out on the journey to the Theresienstadt Ghetto.
Translator: Erwin Fink
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.
Stand: October 2017
© Sabine Brunotte
Quellen: 1; 7; 8; StaH 351-11 AfW, 020697 Helene Müller; StaH 351-11 AfW, 19335; Auskunft Stadtarchiv Ribnitz-Damgarten, E-Mails vom 28. und 29.6.2010; Auskunft Wolfgang Müller, aufgezeichnet von Sabine Heydn am 9.7.2010.
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