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Siegmund Samsson * 1879

Grindelhof 71–73 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)

HIER WOHNTE
SIEGMUND SAMSSON
JG. 1879
DEPORTIERT 1941
ERMORDET IN
MINSK

Carl Siegmund Samsson, born on 12 Mar. 1879 in Hamburg, deported on 8 Nov. 1941 to Minsk, perished there

Grindelhof 71/73

Siegmund Samsson was born in Hamburg in 1879 as the third of six children of the lottery collector Samsson Samsson and his wife Klara, née Westerberg. He was the only son of the married couple and had three older sisters – Ella, Johanna, and Dora – and a younger one called Rosa. Another sister named Dora died as an infant.

On 25 Mar. 1913, Siegmund Samsson married Ella Peritz, the daughter of a businessman born in Berlin. However, she died a year and a half later, on 25 Nov. 1914. Just under a year and a half after that, Siegmund married Wally Efrem from Bernstadt/Weide in Silesia, today Bierutow in Poland. She came from a merchant family, so that at the latest after the end of the First World War a business connection to Siegmund emerged. C.S. Samsson & M. Efrem sold chemical and technical products on the third floor of Deichstrasse 48/50 in the historic downtown of Hamburg starting in Mar. 1919. At that time, Siegmund and Wally Samsson lived at Grindelhof 71/73. From 1930 onward, Siegmund Samsson was the sole owner of the company, which from then on was only called C.S. Samsson & Efrem. One can deduce from Siegmund’s decreasing Jewish religious tax (Kultussteuer) payments that the economic crisis toward the end of the Weimar Republic was also reflected in his sales. In 1932, he moved the business premises from Deichstrasse to his apartment on Grindelhof.

In 1936, the Samssons relocated within the Grindel quarter and moved into an apartment at Grindelberg 45. Wally Samsson died on 14 Jan. 1939, leaving Siegmund by himself in Hamburg. Over the years, his parents and sisters had died or moved after marriage. The life story of his sister Johanna, who in 1900 married Wilhelm Heinrich Oldörp, the owner of a loan and pawn business, is not known.

For the last months until his deportation to Minsk on 8 Nov. 1941, Siegmund Samsson lived as a subtenant at Grindelallee 178.

The exact circumstances of his death are not known.

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

© Thomas Rost

Quellen: 1; 5; 6; Hamburger Adressbücher 1920–1941; StaH 332-5 Standesämter; StaH 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinden 992e2 Bd 2, Transport nach Minsk am 8. November 1941, Liste 1.
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