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Louis Hirsch * 1873

Weidenallee 59 (Eimsbüttel, Eimsbüttel)

1941 Riga
ermordet

further stumbling stones in Weidenallee 59:
Dora Hirsch

Dora Lea Hirsch, née Meyer, born 5 Jan. 1886 in Hamburg, deported 6 Dec. 1941 to Riga
Louis Hirsch, born 31 Oct. 1873 in Eystrup, deported 6 Dec. 1941 to Riga

Weidenallee 59

Like his two younger siblings Bernhard and Jenny, Louis Hirsch moved away from the little town Eystrup near Bremen to Hamburg. His parents, the locksmith David Hirsch and his wife Sophie, remained in Eystrup. Louis Hirsch trained as a tailor and apparently first paid religious tax in Hamburg at the age of 52. Since his earnings were very low, it was only a small sum.

At 34 years of age, he married the 30-year-old Erna Deichmann at the end of Sept. 1907. She came from a Christian family. Both lived at Wexstraße 26. A mere three years later, the couple was divorced. On 16 May 1919 Louis Hirsch re-married. His second wife was called Dora and came, like Louis, from a Jewish family. She was born in Hamburg as the daughter of the innkeeper Louis Meyer and his wife Charlotte, née Goldmann. At the time of their marriage, Louis Hirsch lived at Großneumarkt, Dora with her parents in Eimsbüttel, at Bundesstraße 35 b. She was twelve years younger than her husband. They never had any children.

In 1934 Louis Hirsch became unemployed and retired in 1936 at the age of 63, without having found another job. His pension must have been very small since the couple lived henceforth in part from welfare. For a long time the Hirsch couple lived at Weidenallee 59, where the Stolpersteine for them also lie. In 1940 they had to move into the "Jewish house" (Judenhaus) at Bundesstraße 35.

Louis Hirsch’s unmarried sister Jenny, who had worked as a cook, likewise had to leave her apartment. She was assigned to the "Jewish house" at Kleinen Schäferkamp 32. His brother Bernhard Hirsch first lived with his family at Weidenallee 10. He had married Martha Oppenheim from Hamburg, ten years his junior, and worked for a debt collection agency. The couple had a daughter Ruth, who was born on 28 Dec. 1913, and three years later a son Egon. The son died barely nine months later at the Israelite Hospital. Ruth Hirsch learned to work as a seamstress and gave birth to a son in 1935 whom she named Heinz.

Bernhard and Martha, Jenny, Ruth and Heinz Hirsch were deported to Minsk on 18 Nov. 1941, Louis and Dora Hirsch to Riga on 6 Dec. 1941. They were 68 and 56 years old. None of them survived.

Translator: Suzanne von Engelhardt

Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: October 2016
© Frauke Steinhäuser

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; 8; StaH 332-5 Standesämter, Standesamt Eimsbüttel, Heiratsbücher, 8728 (205/1919); ehemaliges Standesamt Eystrup, Geburtenregister, Nr. 11/1876 und Nr. 5/1879, Recherche und Auskunft R. Balschun, Stadtarchiv Nienburg.