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Siegmund Tisch * 1880

Bellealliancestraße 27 (Eimsbüttel, Eimsbüttel)

HIER WOHNTE
SIEGMUND TISCH
JG. 1880
GEDEMÜTIGT / ENTRECHTET
FLUCHT IN DEN TOD
19.8.1938

Siegmund Tisch, born 27 May 1880 in Hamburg, committed suicide 19 Aug. 1938

Bellealliancestraße 27

Siegmund Tisch was a Hamburg citizen of Jewish heritage. He married Rosa Mohr (born on 31 Jan. 1897 in Lokstedt) on 5 Aug. 1928. His wife was not Jewish, she was Protestant. Their son Emil was born a year after their wedding. The family lived on the second floor of the building at Bellealliancestraße 23/25.

Siegmund Tisch was head waiter at Hellmann’s Restaurant which the Jewish businessman and proprietor Leo Lesser Jacobsohn had run prior to 1933 at Kleinen Theaterstraße 8. A Stumbling Stone lies at Schlüterstraße 22 for Leo Lesser Jacobsohn. Soon after the National Socialists seized power, Siegmund Tisch lost his job and remained unemployed. His wife was pressured to divorce him. On 19 Aug. 1938 Siegmund Tisch took his own life by inhaling gas.

In a later redress of wrongs proceeding, his widow’s application for compensation was rejected on the basis that Siegmund Tisch had committed suicide due to family problems and not due to racial persecution or violent measures directed against him.


Translator: Suzanne von Engelhardt
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: March 2019
© Susanne Lohmeyer

Quellen: 1; StaH 351-11 AfW, 20344; HAB IV 1936; HAB II 1937.
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