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Lippmann Weinberg * 1879

Bismarckstraße 58 (Eimsbüttel, Eimsbüttel)

HIER WOHNTE
LIPPMANN WEINBERG
JG. 1879
VERHAFTET 1938
KZ FUHLSBÜTTEL
SACHSENHAUSEN
DEPORTIERT 1942
THERESIENSTADT
ERMORDET 16.12.1942

Lippmann Weinberg, b. 9.18.1879 in Hamburg, deported on 7.15.1942 to Theresienstadt, murdered there on 12.26.1942

Bismarckstraße 58

When Lippmann Weinberg was born, his parents – the produce dealer Nathan Weinberg and his wife Friederike, née Jacobsohn – lived at Neuen Steinweg 70, around the corner from the Grossneumarkt. Approximately three years later, on 5.3.1882, Lippmann had a sister, Bertha. Meanwhile the family now lived near St. Michael’s, on the English Plank road 17.

Just like his sister, Lippmann trained for a business career; around 1911, he married Lina Nussbaum, a woman four years his junior, born in Cassel on 10.9.1875, (as of 1926, officially spelled Kassel). The couple had a son on 7.23.1912, who was given the name Norbert. In the next year, Lippmann Weinberg entered the Hamburg German Israelite Congregation.

The family of three at first found an apartment at Hellkamp 53. In August 1915, Lippmann Weinberg was called up as a soldier in World War I, in the Reserve Infantry Battalion Hamburg IX. 9. After his return in 1918, he built up an existence as a sales representative for footwear products, not an easy way to make a living; for months on end he was without work. Lippmann and Lina Weinberg’s son Norbert meanwhile completed an apprenticeship with the Oscar Busch firm and in 1932 began an engineering course in Hamburg in 1932.

By 1930, the family had already moved into a new apartment at Bismarckstrasse 58, on the mezzanine floor. A few years later, Lina Lippmann became ill, so seriously that she went into the Israelite Hospital. She did not recover and died there on 3.2.1936, at the age of 56. After her death, Lippmann and Norbert Weinberg gave up the apartment on Bismarckstrasse and moved to Weidenallee 48–50, House 6. Around two years later, in the spring of 1938, they changed lodgings yet again, this time to an apartment on Bornstrassse 22.

On 23 June 1938, at 6 in the morning, Lippmann Weinberg was arrested. He belonged among those Hamburg Jews who fell victim to the "Work-Shy Reich Action.” In the Action, in April and then again in June 1938, the criminal police and Gestapo-men nationwide arrested, in the Nazi vocabulary, "Asocials” and took them into "protective custody” and "preventive detention.” According to instructions, previously arrested Jews were also to be taken, those who had been accused of past petty offenses. In Hamburg the criminal police brought in around 700 men, 200 Jews among them, first to the Fuhlsbüttel police prison than to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Lippmann Weinberg was one of them.

Desperate, his son Norbert, now 25 years old, tried to obtain information about his father’s stay in Sachsenhausen. He was greatly concerned, for Lippmann Weinberg was sickly and no longer capable of physical labor. Norbert himself had drawn appropriate conclusions from the growing disenfranchisement and the existential threat to Jews. His flight to the USA stood in the offing; he had passage on a ship that was to leave Hamburg for New York on 10 August 1938. Before his departure, he absolutely wanted to see his father one more time, but the camp administration refused his request. He received only a letter from the camp commandant, Hermann Barnanowski, informing him that his father was enjoying "the best of health.”

In a letter Lippmann Weinberg was permitted to write to is son at the end of July 1938, he mentioned professional matters above all, for example, the unpaid honoraria from various manufacturers he had worked for at the end. Besides that, he sent his greetings to "Aunt Bertha, Uncle Max, and Aunt Selma.” Bertha was his sister; Max Nussbaum, the brother of his dead wife Lina; and Selma, née Marcus, Max’s wife. The couple had two daughters, Carola, born in 1921 and the younger Lisa Gertrud, born in 1923. They ran a notions and haberdashery business, first at Grossen Burstah 53, then on Holstenplatz 5, and lived initially at Issestrasse 11, than at Karl-Muck Platz 14. This family seems to have succeeded in emigrating to Great Britain and the USA.

Norbert Weinberg left Germany without having seen his father one more time. Lippmann Weinberg was released from Sachsenhausen and had to return to a "Jew house.” His last, involuntary, address was at Schäferkampsallee 29. That is where he received his deportation order. He was hauled on Transport VI/1 to Theresienstadt on 15 July 1942, where he died a few months later. His sister Bertha was also deported to this camp--with Transport VI/8 which left Hamburg on 23 June 1943. She died in Theresienstadt on 4.8.1944.

Norbert Weinberg took US citizenship and found work as a mechanical engineer. Within the framework of reparations proceedings for his father, he came once more to Hamburg in 1958.


Translator: Richard Levy
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: May 2019
© Frauke Steinhäuser

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