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Gerhard Stoppelman * 1938

Marckmannstraße 88 a (Hamburg-Mitte, Rothenburgsort)

HIER WOHNTE
GERHARD STOPPELMAN
JG. 1938
FLUCHT 1938 HOLLAND
INTERNIERT WESTERBORK
DEPORTIERT 1942
AUSCHWITZ
ERMORDET

further stumbling stones in Marckmannstraße 88 a:
Alfred Stoppelman, Else Clara Stoppelman

Alfred Stoppelman, b. 12.1.1911 in Hanover, deported from the Netherlands to Auschwitz on 9.30.1942
Else Clara Stoppelman, née Goldschmidt, b. 6.7.1910 in Hamburg, deported from the Netherlands to Auschwitz on 8.2.1942
Gerhard Stoppelman, b. 1.25.1938 in Hamburg, deported from the Netherlands to Auschwitz on 8.2.1942

Marckmannstraße 88a

Alfred Stoppelman was the third child of Gerson Stoppelman (b. 3 April 1879 in Hamburg) and his wife Auguste, née Löbenstein (b. 11 February 1888); he was born in Hanover, although the family’s residence was in Hamburg. Gerson Stoppelmann ran a butcher shop in the Grindel neighborhood. Alfred’s sisters Grete (1907) and Hedwig (1910) were joined by a sister Ilse in 1918 and finally by a brother Max in 1919.

Alfred Stoppelman, like his father, belonged to the German Israelite Congregation of Hamburg and he also followed him in his profession. On 11 July 1933, he registered a peddling business with the Harvesthude district office as "a dealer in meat, sausage goods, and butchered fowl; as early as 3 April 1934, at the Billwärder district office, he decided upon a fixed business as a "dealer in wild, butchered fowl and eggs” with premises at Billhorner Röhrendamm 163.

With the opening of his shop on 26 April 1934, the business prospered. In 1935, Auguste Stoppelmann died. Having lived with his father at Rutschbahn 17 up until that time, Alfred Stoppelmann married Else Clara Goldschmidt and moved with her to Marckmannstrasse 88a, where their son Gerhard was born on 25 January 1938.

As a Jew, Alfred Stoppelman had to give up his business. Without hope for a future in Germany, the family emigrated to the Netherlands in September 1938; Alfred Stoppelmann became a citizen there. Both his sisters Grete and Hedig were already living in the USA; his brother Max got to Palestine. In December 1938, Gerson Stoppelman and his daughter Ilse also emigrated to the Netherlands, from which they hoped to be able to move on to the USA. They were living in Amsterdam, when the Netherlands was occupied by the German armed forces and the persecution of the Jews began.

On 2 August 1942, Else Clara, along with her son Gerhard, were the first to be deported to Auschwitz, where they were presumably immediately murdered. On 30 September and 5 October, Alfred and then Gerson Stoppelman followed. Ilse, married to Dotsch-Stoppelman, was deported to the Sobibor extermination camp on 30 April 1943 and probably murdered immediately upon her arrival.


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

Stand: January 2019
© Hildegard Thevs

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; StaH 376-3, Zentralgewerbekartei, VIII C c 1, 1915-1930/741-4, K 3922 552-1 Jüdische Gemeinden, 872 Jüd. Gemeindeblatt XII; Joodsmonument; Wamser/Weinke, Rechtlosigkeit, in: Jüdisches Leben am Grindel, S. 331ff.
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