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Ernst Hofmann * 1909

Isestraße 91 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude)

HIER WOHNTE
ERNST HOFMANN
JG. 1909
DEPORTIERT 1942
ERMORDET IN
AUSCHWITZ

further stumbling stones in Isestraße 91:
Karen Hofmann, Dora Rosa Lewina, Dora Oppenheim, Gustav Oppenheim, Ilse Oppenheim

Ernst Hofmann, born 23.1.1909 in Nassau, deported to Auschwitz on 11.7.1942 and murdered
Karen Hofmann, née Meyer, born 11.9.1908 in Hamburg, deported to Auschwitz on 11.7.1942 and murdered

Isestraße 91 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude)

Ernst Hofmann came from Nassau at river Lahn, his father was Salomon Hofmann, born in Frickhofen in 1863. He married Katinka (Clementine) Katz, born in Marköbel in 1898, in April 1908 in his second marriage.

Their son Ernst was born on January 23, 1909, and his brother Paul seven years later. Ernst and Paul had four half-siblings, children from their father's first marriage. All except Ernst survived the "Third Reich" because they emigrated in time.

Paul Hofmann, who conducted the "restitution proceedings" for his siblings and himself after the end of the war, reported on his brother's straightforward life: Ernst had attended secondary school, first in Nassau, then in Ems. He passed the Abitur at the Oberrealschule in Koblenz and then joined, as an apprentice the company "I. Adler, Jnr", buying and selling scrap and metals, which had its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main and operated a branch in Hamburg.

Ernst Hofmann was probably entrusted with the management of the Hamburg branch as a commercial employee in 1932 and did not change companies, according to his brother. Until 1941, he paid his cultural tax contribution to the Jewish community in Hamburg. Whether the company existed until then or was "Aryanized" cannot be deduced with certainty.

After his arrival in Hamburg, Ernst Hofmann lived at Isestraße 91 as a subtenant. He married the Hamburg woman Karen Meyer. For the longest time, the couple lived at Wiesendamm 145 with Karen's mother.

In February 1942, Ernst and Karen Hofmann were sent to the "Judenhaus" at Bornstraße 16, and six weeks later to the one at Parkallee 15. From there they were transported to Auschwitz on July 11, 1942.

Ernst Hofmann's parents were deported from Frankfurt am Main to Theresienstadt on September 16, 1942. Salomon Hofmann died there on July 9, 1943, and his wife Katinka came to Auschwitz on Transport Ea on May 16, 1944, and was murdered there.

Translation by Beate Meyer
Stand: January 2022
© Christa Fladhammer

Quellen: 1; AfW 230109; StaH, 522-1 Jüd. Gemeinden, 992 e 2, Bd. 4; BA Berlin, R1509, Ergänzungskarten für Angaben über Abstimmung (Volkszählung 17.5.1939).
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