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Heinz Wagener * 1934

Gneisenaustraße 18 (Eimsbüttel, Hoheluft-West)

HIER WOHNTE
HEINZ WAGENER
JG. 1934
DEPORTIERT 1941
ERMORDET IN
MINSK

further stumbling stones in Gneisenaustraße 18:
Therese Presser, Salomon Presser, Karl Presser, Marianna Presser, Herbert Wagener, Therese Wagener, Walter Wagener, Willi Wagner

Adolf Wagener, born 5/2/1877 in Hamburg, deported to the Minsk ghetto on 11/8/ 1941
Therese Wagener, née Worms, born 10/3/1876 in Hamburg, deported to the Minsk ghetto on 11/8/ 1941
Bruno Wagener, born 8/1/1909 in Hamburg, deported to the Minsk ghetto on 11/8/ 1941
Elise Wagener, née Polak, born on 3/1/1908 in Oldersum, deported to the Minsk ghetto on 11/18/ 1941
Uri Wagener, born 5/18/1940, deported to the Minsk ghetto on 11/18/ 1941

Wrangelstrasse 80


Herbert Wagener, born 8/17/1902 in Hamburg, deported to the Minsk ghetto on 11/8/ 1941
Therese Wagener, née Polak, born on 8/31/1896 in Oldersum, deported to the Minsk ghetto on 11/8/1941
Willi Walter Wagener, born 8/23/1927, deported to the Minsk ghetto on 11/8/ 1941
Heinz Wagener, born 11/29/1934, deported to the Minsk ghetto on 11/8/ 1941

Gneisenaustrasse 18


Norbert Nathan Wagener, born on 21/7/1901 in Hamburg, deported to the Minsk ghetto on 11/8/ 1941
Edith Mary Wagener, née Lippmann, born on 9/28/1916 in Hamburg, deported to the Minsk ghetto on 11/8/ 1941
Bela Wagener, born 1/11/1939 in Hamburg, deported to the Minsk ghetto on 11/8/ 1941
Jana Wagener, born 11/15/1940 in Hamburg, deported to the Minsk ghetto on 11/8/ 1941

Heinrich-Barth-Strasse 19, Rotherbaum


Therese and Elise Polak came from the East Frisian community of Oldersum. This town south-east of Emden had approx. 1.200 inhabitants. Jewish families had settled here since the beginning of the 17th century; a Polak family was first mentioned here in the census and residential buildings count of April 1st, 1842.

The two sisters went to Hamburg in the early 1930s. Therese registered with the Jewish community and lived at Woldsenweg 14 until she married Herbert Wagener on October 6th, 1933. On December 24th, 1939, her sister married Herbert’s brother Bruno Wagener. Both couples are said to have been very thrifty, industrious people.

Therese brought her son Willi Walter into the marriage; Herbert Wagener adopted him. Their son Heinz was a common child. After their marriage, they moved to an apartment on the ground floor of Gneisenaustrasse 18. Therese’s aunt Therese Presser (see there) lived on the third floor of the same building. Herbert Wagener was a butcher by trade, in the 1933/34 Address book, he was listed as Kopfschlachter ("head butcher”) at Düppelstrasse 33. He was a member of the Jewish Community, but his income remained so slight he did not have to pay culture taxes. The family’s three-room apartment is said to have been well decorated with mahogany furniture and rugs. But Herbert Wagener soon had to abandon butchery, the basis of his existence. Thereafter, he "accepted any type of work and also helped unload coal”, as a neighbor later told. In the course of the 1938 pogrom night, Herbert Wagener was detained at the Fuhlsbüttel police prison.

Having arrived in Hamburg, Elise Polak initially hired herself out as a housemaid (at least in 1936) After she married Bruno Wagener, she gave birth to their son Uri on May 5th, 1940, and she stopped working. Bruno Wagener was a commercial clerk. The young family lived in two rooms with Bruno’s parents, Adolf Wagener and Therese, née Worms at Wrangelstrasse 66 (now number 80). Their slight income wasn’t sufficient to rent an apartment for themselves. In this cellar apartment, Adolf Wagener, a trained coachbuilder, also had a workshop for repairing baby carriages, but it yielded only very little money.

Herbert and Bruno Wagener had an elder brother, Norbert, who worked as a travelling salesman. Norbert later married Edith, née Lippmann (born on 9/28/1916 in Hamburg). Her parents were Siegmund Lippmann born 9/4/1877) and Recha, née Tannenwald (born 10/28/1887); she died on 8/7/1936. On January 18th, 1938, Siegmund Lippmann married again; Sara, née Rosenblatt (born 4/3/1881) became his second wife.

When Edith met Norbert Wagener, she was working as a domestic servant. She also belonged to the German-Israelitic Community in Hamburg. Later, she began an apprenticeship (we don’t know for which trade or profession) and paid slight cultural taxes. She lived at Beim Schlump 5. Norbert and Edith Wagener’s daughter Bela was born on 1/11/1939, their second daughter Jana on 11/15/1940. This young family now also moved in with Norbert’s pa
Stand: May 2019
© Peter Offenborn

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; 314-15 StAH Oberfinanzpräsident Abl. 1998 J 2/878, Abl. 1998 J 3/386 und Abl. R 1940/1080; StAH 213-13 Staatsanwaltschaft Landgericht-Wiedergutmachungssachen Z 3027 (Elise Wagener, geb. Polak); StAH 213-13 Staatsanwaltschaft Landgericht-Wiedergutmachungssachen Z 15254 (Norbert Wagener); FZH 12-3 S (Personalakten); Herbert Obenaus, Historisches Handbuch, S. 558f.; Klaus Euhausen, Vier Jahrhunderte jüdische Geschichte in Oldersum (1606 bis 1940), auf: www.oldersum. online.de/kirche/juden_in_oldersum (13.9.2010); Meyers Orts- und Verkehrslexikon des Deutschen Reichs, Leipzig/Wien 1912.
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Norbert Nathan Wagener, born on 21.7.1901 in Hamburg, deported to the Minsk ghetto on 8.11.1941
Edith Mary Wagener, née Lippmann, born on 28.9.1916 in Hamburg, deported to the Minsk ghetto on 8.11.1941
Bela Wagener, born on 11.1.1939 in Hamburg, deported to the Minsk ghetto on 8.11.1941
Jana Wagener, born on 15.11.1940 in Hamburg, deported to the Minsk ghetto on 8.11.1941

Heinrich-Barth-Strasse 19

Norbert Nathan Wagener was born in Hamburg on July 21, 1901, as the first child of Therese, née Worms, and her husband Adolf Wagener. He had two younger brothers: Herbert (b. Aug. 17, 1902) and Bruno (b. Aug. 1, 1909). His parents' house was located at Wrangelstraße 66 (today Wrangelstraße 80), where he later lived with his wife Edith and their two daughters.

Norbert, who worked as a salesman, kept his office at the same address. His father also ran a baby carriage repair shop there. We do not know exactly when he and Edith met and when they married, but it probably happened in 1938, about a year before the birth of their first daughter Bela.

Norbert's wife Edith Mary Wagener, née Lippmann, was born in Hamburg on September 28, 1916; she was the only child of the slaughterer Siegmund Lippmann and his first wife Recha, née Tannenwald (b. Oct, 10,1887), who had died on August 7, 1936.

At the time of Edith's birth, they probably lived at Bornstraße 8. On January 18, 1938, her father married his second wife Sara, née Rosenblatt (b. March, 4, 1881). Edith worked for a short time as a domestic servant and began an apprenticeship. What profession she learned and whether she finished her apprenticeship is impossible to say. She probably lived with her father at the street Beim Schlump 5 until her marriage, where she probably took care of the household after her mother's death and before her father's second marriage. Edith's aunt Caroline Lippmann (b. 2/13/1975) and her uncle Gustav Lippmann (b. 8/12/1868), both siblings of her father, also lived in this house. Both Norbert and Edith came from very large families; Edith's father alone had seven other siblings.

Before they moved into the three-room apartment on the third floor of the "Judenhaus" at Heinrich-Barth-Strasse 19, where they lived with Herbst as subtenants, Norbert, Edith and the two daughters Bela and Jana first lived with Norbert's parents at Wrangelstrasse 66 in a basement apartment with three rooms. Norbert's brother Bruno, his wife Elise, née Polak (born August 1, 1903), and their son Uri (born May 18, 1940) lived there at the same time. The young family then moved to the second floor at street Schlump 5 to Edith's father Siegmund and his wife.

The Wagener family had no assets and paid only a small amount of cultural taxes to the Jewish Community, and not every year. Nevertheless, none of the family members received any allowances from welfare.

On November 8, 1941, almost the entire Wagener family was deported to Minsk. The deportation list also includes Edith's father Siegmund and his wife Sara, Norbert's parents and his brothers. Edith and the two daughters were not originally on the list, but Edith volunteered for the "evacuation": by this time, almost all of her relatives had already been deported, and besides, not much was known about what awaited one in such a "ghetto". Thus, perhaps Edith was convinced that it would be better to leave with her husband and her parents and parents-in-law than to remain alone in Hamburg with her two daughters. Perhaps she also suspected that she would otherwise have been scheduled for one of the later deportation trains, as was the case with her sister-in-law Elise.

No date of death is known for any of the above. From November 8, 1941, their traces in Minsk are lost. There are no survivors from either the Wagener family or the Lippmann family. Both families were exterminated in the Holocaust.

Translation by Beate Meyer
Stand: January 2022
© Laura Tippelt

Quellen: StaHH, 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinden, 992b, Kultussteuerkartei der Deutsch-Israelitischen Gemeinde Hamburg, Kultussteuerkarte Norbert Wagener, Adolf Wagener, Edith Lippmann, Siegmund Lippmann, Simon Lippmann, Caroline Lippmann, Gustav Lippmann; StaHH, 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinden, 390, Deutsch Israelitische Gemeinde – Wählerliste 1930; StaHH, 314-15 Oberfinanzpräsident, 26, Wohnungspflegeamt: Listen der Wohnungen von Juden, deren Deportation für die Transporte vom 25.10., 8.11., 18.11. und 6.12.1941 bevorstand; StaHH, 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinden, 391, Liste der Gemeindemitglieder 1935; StaHH, 314-15 Oberfinanzpräsident, R 1940 / 1080; Internetquellen: www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch (27.7.2014); www.statistik-des-holocaust.de/stat_gerr_dep.html (27.7.2014).