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Leo Wolfsohn
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Leo Wolfsohn * 1868

Schrötteringksweg 9 (Hamburg-Nord, Uhlenhorst)

HIER WOHNTE
LEO WOLFSOHN
JG. 1868
DEPORTIERT 1942
THERESIENSTADT
ERMORDET 16.9.1942

further stumbling stones in Schrötteringksweg 9:
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Leo Wolfsohn, born on 30 Mar. 1868 in Graudenz, died on 16 Sept. 1942 in Theresienstadt

Little is known about Leo Wolfsohn, the son of Moritz Magnus and Johanna Wolfsohn, née Stein. He was born on 30 Mar. 1868 in Graudenz (today Grudziadz in Poland), moved to Hamburg, and married Helene, called Hella Krombach (born in 1879), a native of Posen (today Poznan in Poland),. The marriage remained childless.

At one of the social gatherings in the Wolfsohns’ house at Schrötteringksweg 9 in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst, Hella’s sister Goldina and Max van der Walde from Hamburg met. It was probably a business connection, because Leo Wolfsohn was a merchant. Over the years, other family members of his wife, namely his mother-in-law Eugenie Krombach, née Badt, with the brother Emil, came to Hamburg as well. When Hella Wolfsohn died in 1931, the close family ties may have loosened.

Apart from the usual restrictions and humiliations during the Nazi era, Leo Wolfsohn had to endure the fact that parts of his apartment were confiscated by the SS for use as an office until he was expelled for good. First, he was accommodated at Lenhartzstrasse 3 with the Wallach family, later in Kielortallee 23, also together with the Wallach family.

On 15 July 1942, Leo Wolfsohn was deported to Theresienstadt, where he died two months later, on 16 Sept. 1942, under unclear circumstances.


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

Stand: May 2019
© Norma van der Walde

Quellen: Staatsarchiv Hamburg, 522-1, Jüdische Gemeinden, 992b, Kultussteuerkartei der Deutsch-Israelitischen Gemeinde Hamburg; Bauunterlagen der Häuser Schrötteringksweg 9 und 11 (eingesehen von Gabriele Heise)
Hamburger jüdische Opfer des Nationalsozialismus; Gedenkbuch, Staatsarchiv Hamburg Bd. XV, bearbeitet von Jürgen Sielemann unter Mitarbeit von Paul Flamme, Hamburg 1995.