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Paul Prechner * 1895

Hammer Landstraße Ecke Burgstraße (Hamburg-Mitte, Hamm)

1939 - 1940 Zuchthaus Bremen-Oslebshausen
1940 - 1942 KZ Fuhlsbüttel
1942 Auschwitz
ermordet 20.01.1943

further stumbling stones in Hammer Landstraße Ecke Burgstraße:
Adam Molinnus

Paul Prechner, b. 6.2.1895, date of death, 1.20.1943 in Auschwitz

Burgstraße/at the intersection with Hammer Landstraße (Burgstraße 4)

This biographical sketch confronts two problems: the first is the address. Because of the destruction of Hamm on 27-28 July 1943 and its reconstruction, streets have been widened or built up, or former names of other streets have been assigned to different streets or parts of streets. With the new construction, house numbers were shifted or omitted. In this case, the lower house numbers were eliminated by the erection of the "Burgstrasse” subway station.

The second problem has to do with the documentation of this person. Paul Prechner was a Jew, in the National Socialist view, and he was Catholic. Even so, as a Catholic he had to be included in the Jewish community of Hamburg as of 1939, although by this time he was already in detention. The documents of the resident registration office were lost during World War II.

However, the details of Paul Prechner’s persecution are documented. In 1939 and 1940, he was incarcerated in the Bremen-Oslebshausen penitentiary; afterwards, he spent two years in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp. On 10 December 1942, he was deported to Auschwitz and murdered there on 20 January 1943.

Translator: Richard Levy
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: February 2018
© Hildegard Thevs

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