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Nanny Müller (née Müller) * 1893

Helene-Lange-Straße 7 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude)

HIER WOHNTE
NANNY MÜLLER
GEB. MÜLLER
JG. 1893
DEPORTIERT 1941
ERMORDET IN
RIGA

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Nanny Müller, born 29.9.1893 in Hamburg, deported to the Riga ghetto on 6.12.1941

Helene-Lange-Straße 7 (formerly: Hansastraße 79), Eimsbüttel

Nanny Müller was born in Hamburg on September 29, 1893. She had three siblings: her older brother Aron Leopold Müller was born on August 1, 1891, her sister Paula on March 6, 1895 and her younger brother Lazarus Siegmund on November 5, 1901. We know nothing about the siblings' childhood, youth and education.

According to the marriage certificate, Nanny Müller had been married to the singer Siegmund Cohn, born July 2, 1894 in Hamburg, since May 30, 1919. She worked professionally as a "buyer and saleswoman” and, after her divorce, was an independent paying member of the Jewish Community of Hamburg from 1929. Until December 1938, she paid contributions of RM 2.10 to the Jewish Community. No further payments are recorded from 1939 onwards. Nanny Müller worked as an employee at the Moritz Mädler leather goods factory at Neuer Wall 10. It is not known how long she was employed there. No other employment relationships are known either.

Siegmund Cohn had trained as a businessman after finishing school at the Talmud Tora School. In his curriculum vitae from February 1938, he wrote that from 1919 to 1929 he had worked "partly as a businessman in more or less lengthy positions, partly as a singer at the Hamburg radio station and at the cabaret in Germany”. In 1920, he was registered at Fröbelstraße 7. After that, he was not listed with his own entry until 1926, which suggests that he and his wife Nanny lived as subtenants during this time. From 1926, Siegmund Cohn was listed as a merchant at Rappstraße 9. This address can also be found on Nanny Müller's Jewish religious tax card. The marriage was divorced on March 26, 1927. Nanny Cohn resumed her maiden name Müller in March 1934.

Nanny Müller's other places of residence on the Jewish Community's index card are Alsterdorfer Strasse 98 and Hansastraße 79. Nanny Müller was first listed in the Hamburg address book for Hansastraße 79 in 1935.
Her last place of residence was Hegestieg 12 and, according to an entry on the Jewish religious tax card, she probably lived there from January 28, 1936. Her brother Ludwig Müller and his wife Marianne also lived in the house. Nanny Müller lived in her own apartment on the first floor. From 1937, she was also listed in the address book for this address.

Her widowed mother Minna Müller, née Engel, born September 3, 1862, also lived with Nanny Müller, and there is evidence that they lived together in Rappstraße, Hansastraße and Hegestieg. On December 3, 1941, she was forced to move into the "Jews‘ house” at Schäferkampsallee 29 and from May 20, 1943, she was quartered in the "Jews’ house” at Beneckestraße 4-6 until she was deported to Theresienstadt on June 9, 1943 at the age of 81. She died there on February 18, 1944.

Nanny Müller's brother Leopold Müller and his wife Marianne Müller gave up their own apartment at Hegestieg 12 in May 1939 and moved in with Nanny Müller. Behind Leopold Müller lay months of imprisonment in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he had been deported in the course of the November pogrom of 1938 and released on December 14. Leopold Müller had been dependent on welfare support since 1927 and had been threatened with eviction several times. By moving in with his sister, he was able to live more cheaply and improve his situation somewhat. Nanny Müller paid her rent regularly, according to a statement from the welfare office. Leopold Müller emigrated to the USA in August 1941, where he died on August 21, 1942.

Nanny Müller and her sister-in-law Marianne, who stayed behind, were ordered to be deported to the Riga ghetto on December 6, 1941. They did not survive. Both were declared dead on May 8, 1945.

When they were deported, they had to leave their entire household behind and hand in the keys to their apartment at the nearest police station. The furnishings and household effects were later auctioned off by the Arthur Landjunk company. The proceeds of the auction amounted to RM 2,873.95 and were transferred to the Oberfinanzkasse, minus the remaining rent.

Nanny's sister Paula Pfeiffer, née Müller, born on March 6, 1895 in Hamburg, survived the war in a mixed marriage with her non-Jewish husband. The couple lived at Isestraße 67. Paula Pfeiffer had to do forced labor during the war.

Her brother Lazarus Siegmund Müller was able to emigrate to the USA.

Leopold and Marianne Müller's children Inge and Max Gerhard were transported to England and later lived in the USA and Canada.

Nanny Müller's divorced husband Siegmund Cohn was imprisoned from November 1937 to May 5, 1940 for "racial defilement”. He had met a non-Jewish woman in 1928 and moved in with her in March 1929. The couple lived together unmarried for years. In 1934, after gossip from the neighbors "that a Jew was living with the witness N.”, he moved out and lived as a subtenant at Grindelallee 47. After the Nuremberg Laws were passed, which made extramarital sex between Jews and non-Jews a criminal offense, they discussed their situation and only met occasionally. On November 5, 1937, Siegmund Cohn was arrested and sentenced to two years and six months in prison for "racial defilement”, which he served in the Glasmoor prison. In preparation for his emigration, he was granted two days' parole in April 1940.
Siegmund Cohn married the artist Lotte Marx, born on February 17, 1902 in Hamburg, on October 11, 1940. They lived at Hansastraße 64 as subtenants. Both emigrated on November 26, 1940. Both emigrated to Yugoslavia on November 26, 1940. Their final destination was probably Paraguay, as noted on the Jewish religious tax card. His brother Eduard Cohn had already emigrated to Paraguay on September 15, 1938 and had joined his wife Margot and their two children Helmut and Marion in 1939.

Translation: Beate Meyer
Stand: November 2024
© Martin Bähr

Quellen: Hamburger Adressbuch; StAH 213-13 Landgericht Hamburg Wiedergutmachung 7467 Müller, Nanny; 242-1 II Gefängnisverwaltung II 2114 Cohn, Siegmund; 242-1 II Zentrale Haftkartei für Männer 30268 (741-4 Fotoarchiv A 467); 314-15 Oberfinanzpräsident F 288, Cohn, Eduard; 314-15 Oberfinanzpräsident FVg 8346, Cohn Siegmund, Cohn Lotte; 351-11_Wiedergutmachung 744 Müller, Minna, 351-11_Wiedergutmachung 13125 Müller, Aron Leopold; 351-11_Wiedergutmachung 15336 Müller, Marianne; 351-11 Wiedergutmachung 15833 Müller, Nanny; 351-11_Wiedergutmachung 17120 Pfeiffer, Paula; 351-11_Wiedergutmachung 47327 Müller, Gerhard; 522-01_0992_b_41163 Nanny Müller geb. 29.9.1893; 522-01_0992_b_41164 Nanny Müller geb. 29.9.1893; 522-01_0992_b_09301 Siegmund Cohn, geb. 2.7.1894; 522-01_0992_b_37843 Lotte Marx, geschiedene Lehmann 17.2.1902; 522-01_0992_b_41137 Leopold Müller; 522-01_0992_b_41139 Leopold Müller; 522-01_0992_b_41161 Minna Müller, geb. Engel; E-Mail Reference Services Arolsen Archives v. 29.8.2024 (Az. T-174167); Email der Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen v. 27.9.2024.
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