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Julius Renner * 1870

Billhorner Brückenstraße 117 (Hamburg-Mitte, Rothenburgsort)

HIER WOHNTE
JULIUS RENNER
JG. 1870
DEPORTIERT 1942
THERESIENSTADT
ERMORDET 7.10.1943

Julius Renner, born on 10 June 1870 in Hamburg, deported on 15 July 1942 to Theresienstadt, died there on 7 Oct. 1943

Billwerder Neuer Deich 1 (Billhorner Brückenstrasse 117)

Julius Renner was born as Isaak Renner. He came from a "modest background”: His father, Jacob Renner, earned a living for himself and his family as a trader. No further details are known about his mother Johanna, née Simon. They belonged to the Jewish Community. Isaak Renner became a coachman, temporarily earning a living as a salaried employee and later as a worker. He began going by the German name of "Julius” in addition to this birth name. On 13 June 1903 – he resided at Spitalerstrasse 47 then – he married the divorcee Ida Neben, née Boljus, born on 8 Mar. 1864 and six years his senior. She was a non-Jewish woman and belonged to the Lutheran Church.

The married couple adopted a daughter. For many years, they lived at Brückenstrasse 117 in Rothenburgsort, at the entrance to the Norderelbbrücken, and they belonged to the St. Thomas parish. In 1925, at the age of 55, Isaak Renner had himself baptized there by Pastor Ahrens. He did not leave the German-Israelitic Community in Hamburg until a few years later. The daughter married an "Aryan.”

Julius and Ida Renner lived in modest circumstances. According to the Nuremberg laws (on race) passed in 1935, Julius Renner was deemed a "full Jew” ("Volljude”), and his conversion to the Protestant Church did not matter, though initially his "mixed marriage” ("Mischehe”) protected him from some anti-Jewish measures. In 1939, Julius Renner rejoined under compulsion the Jewish Religious Organization (Jüdischer Religionsverband), a branch of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany (Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland). His modest pension was supplemented by welfare assistance from the Jewish Community, which was granted to him only until Jan. 1941, however.

On 7 Oct. 1940, Ida Renner passed away and she was buried in the Ohlsdorf central cemetery. It is not known whether her husband received any kind of support from the church community. An established fact is, however, that his landlord did not make use of his right to give notice. Julius Renner was able to remain in his familiar apartment until 11 Mar. 1942.

On the orders of the Gestapo, the Jewish Community subsequently accommodated him in the Samuel Lewisohn Stift at Kleiner Schäferkamp 32, which by then served as a "Jews’ house” ("Judenhaus”). From there, he was deported to the Theresienstadt "ghetto for the elderly” on 15 July 1942, one month after his seventy-second birthday. He died in the ghetto on 7 October of the following year.


Translator: Erwin Fink
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: October 2018
© Hildegard Thevs

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; BA 1939; Archiv der Ev.-Luth. Kirche Hamburg-Ost, Taufregister der St.-Thomas-Kirchengemeinde 1925; StaH 552-1 Jüdische Gemeinden, 992 e 2, Bd. 4.
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