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Dr. Hans Rosenbaum * 1901

Johnsallee 68 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)

1942 Theresienstadt
1944 Auschwitz

further stumbling stones in Johnsallee 68:
Ella Michel, Amalie Noafeldt, Henriette Voss

Hans Rosenbaum, MD, born on 21 June 1901, deported on 15 July 1942 to Theresienstadt, deported on 16 May 1944 from there to Auschwitz

The unmarried physician worked at different Berlin hospitals from 1925 until 1929, receiving his license to practice medicine in 1926, and set himself up as a doctor in Hamburg. In 1933, his license to practice as a statutory health insurance and welfare physician was revoked. Subsequently, he pursued commercial activities, eventually as an investment manager. Like most Jewish doctors, he was deprived of his license to practice medicine in 1938.

His mother emigrated to the Netherlands in 1939. Shortly after the outbreak of war, Hans Rosenbaum was denounced: He had made critical comments about the war and the Wehrmacht in front of the goods packer Mrs. Schulz at Heimerdinger delicatessen. For this reason, on 10 Nov. 1939, he was sentenced to two years in prison in accordance with the "Treachery Act” (Heimtückegesetz). His card at Fuhlsbüttel police prison ("Kolafu”), displaying the entry of "Jew” in red ink, indicates the start of the prison term on 13 Nov. 1939 and the release on 10 Nov. 1941. The card also features the stamped entry, "Keep strictly separate from all other political prisoners.”

Apparently, in June 1940, he was subjected to a medical in the "Kolafu” regarding his fitness for military service. The reason for this is unknown. Hans Rosenbaum’s last Hamburg address was the Jewish Hospital at Johnsallee 68. It is equally inexplicable why Hans Rosenbaum was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, which was reserved for elderly Jews, those related to "Aryans” by marriage, prominent Jews, or Jews having war-related merits or working for the Jewish communities, which – as far as ascertainable – did not apply to him. On 16 May 1944, his name appeared there on the transport list from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz.


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

Stand: October 2018
© Beate Meyer

Quellen: StaH, 522-1, Jüdische Gemeinden, 992b, Kultussteuerkartei der Deutsch-Israelitischen Gemeinde Hamburgs; ebd., 242-1 II/Gefängnisverwaltung/II, Abl. 16, Kiste 1-34, Karteikarte Fuhlsbüttel; Anna von Villiez, Die Verdrängung der jüdischen Ärzte Hamburgs aus dem Berufsleben 1933-1945, Magisterarbeit, Hamburg 2002; 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinden 992e; Adressbücher 1938, 1942; Hamburger jüdische Opfer des Nationalsozialismus. Gedenkbuch, Hamburg 1995; Recherchen Anna von Villiez (StaH 352-3, Medizinalkollegium; ebd., Kultussteuerkartei; Karteikarte des Reichsarztregisters; Reichsmedizinalkalender 1933-1937;Karteikarte der Hamburger Ärztekammer).