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Jacob Wiener * 1879

Eichenstraße 22 (Eimsbüttel, Eimsbüttel)

HIER WOHNTE
JACOB WIENER
JG. 1879
DEPORTIERT 1941
MINSK
???

further stumbling stones in Eichenstraße 22:
Betty Holstein, Ellen Kämpfer, Channa Wiener

Channa (Anna) Wiener, née Niessengart, born on 5 Aug. 1888 in Odessa, deported on 8 Nov. 1941 to Minsk
Jacob Wiener, born on 8 May 1879 in Regensburg, deported on 9 Nov. 1941 to Minsk

Eichenstrasse 22

Hamburg was never the center of Jacob Wiener’s life. He actually lived in Regensburg. Why he went to Hamburg around 1940, we do not know. One of his sisters, Marie or Maria, died in Regensburg in Jan. 1940. Another sister, Frieda Kohn, née Wiener, lived in Hamburg.

Jacob Wiener’s parents were Moritz Wiener and Ida, née Wiener. Almost 700 Jews lived in Regensburg at the time of Jacob’s birth. In a list from 1925, in which the men eligible to vote in the Regensburg Jewish religious community are listed, the name of Jacob Wiener is also mentioned. He was registered with the Hamburg Jewish Community in Mar. 1940, probably as a compulsory member of the Reich Association [of Jews in Germany] (Reichsvereinigung [der Juden in Deutschland]), whose branch the Community was considered by then.

Channa Niessengart and Jacob Wiener married on 29 Mar. 1940. Jacob Wiener told the Chief Finance Administrator (Oberfinanzpräsident) that he had his permanent residence in Regensburg. He was wealthy and earned his living from rental income. In Feb. 1940, the Regensburg-Stadt tax office had ordered a warrant of distress regarding his inheritance for 23,624.85 RM (reichsmark) because he had to pay the "levy on Jewish assets” ("Judenvermögensabgabe”). In fact, he inherited the fortune of his deceased sister and shared it with the sister by the name of Frieda, who lived in Hamburg. In May 1940, a "security order” ("Sicherungsanordnung”) was issued. Henceforth, he was only allowed to dispose of a monthly allowance of 300 RM. He lived on the fourth floor of Wrangelstrasse 10 until Apr. 1940. On 1 May, he moved to Eichenstrasse 22.

His wife Channa was born in Odessa, the Russian multi-ethnic city on the Black Sea. Before the Second World War, Odessa had been home to some 180,000 Jews. According to the deportation list, Channa Wiener, née Niessengart, was a seamstress. Her date of birth is not quite clear. 20 July 1888 was entered on the Jewish religious tax (Kultussteuer) file card, whereas the Memorial Book indicated 5 Aug. 1888. Channa had a son, Gregor Alexander, who was born on 28 Oct. 1919 in Hamburg. For him, a Stolperstein is located at Isestrasse 61. The mother and son had lived in Altona in the 1920s.

When Channa and Jacob Wiener were deported on 8 Nov. 1941, they lived at Eichenstrasse 22 with Holstein (see Betty Holstein and Ellen Kämpfer). The sisters Betty Holstein and Ellen Kämpfer were deported to Lodz before the Wieners. In November, Channa and Jacob Wiener wanted to move to Haynstrasse 7 with Mrs. Sara Blut-Clemens. It did not come to that anymore.

Jacob Wiener’s sister Frieda Kohn, residing at Hansaplatz 8 in Hamburg, was deported to Theresienstadt on 19 July 1942 and murdered in Treblinka on 21 September of the same year.


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

Stand: May 2019
© Susanne Lohmeyer

Quellen: 1; 2 (R1938/3446); 4; 5; HAB II 1941 und 1942; Christa Fladhammer, Stolpersteine in der Hamburger Isestraße, S. 166f.; Siegfried Wittmer, Regensburger Juden, S. 184 und 245.
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