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Rosi Betty Löwenhardt * 1936

Raboisen 50 (Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg-Altstadt)

1941 Minsk
ermordet

further stumbling stones in Raboisen 50:
Erich Löwenhardt, Bertha Löwenhardt

Erich Löwenhardt, born 30 Apr. 1904 in Dortmund, imprisoned in 1938 at Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp, deported 8 Nov. 1941 to Minsk
Bertha Löwenhardt, née Friedfertig, born 12 Feb. 1899 in Delatyn, Poland, deported 18 Nov. 1941 to Minsk
Rosi Betty Löwenhardt, born 26 Nov. 1936 in Hamburg, deported 18 Nov. 1941 to Minsk

between Raboisen 50 and 54, at the corner of Gertrudenstraße (Raboisen 50)

Before Erich Löwenhardt settled in Hamburg on 8 Feb. 1932, he had lived in Bremerhaven at Pestalozzistraße 25 in the Hirsch home and had set out to sea as a ships steward. Erich Löwenhardt was actually a trained butcher. His parents were the railway metalworker Sally Löwenhardt (born in 1872, died in 1936) and Röschen, née Bönninge. Erich’s father had married a second time in 1926 when he wed Golda Löwenstein (born 7 Nov. 1885 in Löwendorf) and lived with her in Dortmund-Brakel (Golda Löwenhardt was deported to Riga on 27 Jan. 1942).

On 15 Apr. 1932 Erich Löwenhardt married Bertha Friedfertig who was five years his senior. At the time of their wedding, both of them lived in downtown Hamburg, he at Rosenstraße 40b, she at Kleinen Rosenstraße 5. Bertha had lived in Hamburg since 1928 and worked as a cook and a domestic servant. Bertha Löwenhardt had grown up in Delatyn which at the time belonged to Austrian Galicia (today Ukraine).

Her mother Chana Adelsberg lived there with two other daughters and a son. They moved into their first apartment together at Raboisen 50 as lodgers of Sappert where today Stumbling Stones bear witness to the Löwenhardt couple. They eventually became the main tenants there.

Erich Löwenhardt’s finally journey to sea was on the Europa, a line of North German Lloyd. On 31 Aug. 1933 he had to sign off due to a hand injury and initially was unable to find another job. The couple gave up their apartment and for a short period moved into an apartment of the Marcus Nordheim Foundation at Schlachterstraße 40/42, House 4. In 1934 Erich Löwenhardt became the custodian of the building at Grindelallee 21/23. That job provided him with a small three-room apartment and 24 Reich Marks (RM) a month salary. They also received welfare payments.

On 26 Nov. 1936 their only child was born, their daughter Rosi Betty. As a welfare recipient, Erich Löwenhardt was then required to do obligatory labor. Later he worked in jobs explicitly set up for Jewish welfare recipients, for instance as an excavation worker for Reich road works in Finkenwärder (today Finkenwerder), lastly at the hemp spinning mill Hanfspinnerei Steen & Co. in Hamburg-Lokstedt. So as not to lose their apartment, Bertha took over her husband’s custodial job, cleaned the stairwell, collected rent payments and looked after the heating furnace in the winter. On the side she had three "morning jobs”, meaning she worked on an hourly basis as a domestic worker. Their daughter Rosi was looked after at a nursery run by the Jewish community at Schäferkampsallee.

During the night of the pogrom from 9 to 10 Nov. 1938, Erich Löwenhardt was arrested but released from Fuhlsbüttel Police Prison after a brief period of "protective custody”. It was noted in the Löwenhardts’ welfare file that in early 1939 they were still hoping to be able to leave Germany, but the start of war on 1 Sept. 1939 will have put an end to those plans. In Sept. 1940 Erich Löwenhardt was severely beaten. He sustained two fractures in his lower jaw and was treated at the public North German Jaw Clinic (former Israelite Hospital) at Eckernförderstraße 4 (today Simon-von-Utrecht-Straße) until the end of Oct.

On 8 Nov. 1941 Erich Löwenhardt was forced to comply with his deportation order to Minsk Ghetto without his family. Bertha Löwenhardt and her four-year-old Rosi were deported to Minsk ten days later on another transport. All members of the family were killed there.

Translator: Suzanne von Engelhardt
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: April 2020
© Susanne Rosendahl

Quellen: 1; 5; 9; StaH 351-14 Arbeits- und Sozialfürsorge 1503 (Löwenhardt, Erich); StaH 332-5 Standesämter 13839 u 141/1932; StaH 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinde Nr. 992 e 2 Band 2; StaH 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinde Nr. 992 e 2 Band 3; AB; Fritz Ostkämper, Die Viehhändlerfamilie Löwenstein in Fürstenau in: Jacob Pins Gesellschaft Kunstverein Höxter e. V. Jüdische Bürger in Höxter, www.jacob-pins.de (Zugriff 10.3.2017).
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