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Luise Lilly Lehmann * 1896

Grindelallee 45 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)

HIER WOHNTE
LUISE LILLY
LEHMANN
JG. 1896
EINGEWIESEN 1936
HEILANSTALT LANGENHORN
"VERLEGT" 23.9.1940
BRANDENBURG
ERMORDET 23.9.1940
"AKTION T4"

Luise Franziska, called Lilly, Lehmann, born on 3 May 1896 in Hamburg, murdered on 23 Sept. 1940 in the Brandenburg/Havel euthanasia killing center

Stolperstein in Hamburg-Rotherbaum, at Grindelallee 45

Luise Franziska Lehmann, called Lilly by everyone, was one of four children of the Jewish married couple Samuel Lehmann and Rosa, née Pincus. The merchant Samuel Lehmann, called Sally, was born on 6 May 1856 in Oschersleben in what is today the Börde administrative district (Saxony-Anhalt). Rosa Pincus, his later wife, was born on 22 Feb. 1870 in Posen (today Poznan in Poland).

Luise Franziska was the second youngest child of Samuel and Rosa Lehmann. She was born on 3 May 1896 in Hamburg-Harvestehude at Schlump 3. Her older sister Ruth Rosalie Amalie was born there on 4 Oct. 1894 and her brother Ludwig on 28 Dec. 1897. The youngest brother, Hans Max Siegfried, was born on 27 Aug. 1900 at Rutschbahn 17 in the Rotherbaum quarter. The family lived on Rutschbahn for many years, for the longest period in house no. 11, still doing so when Samuel Lehmann died 1929 at Eppendorf General Hospital. Daughter Ruth Rosalie Amalie Lehmann had already left her parents’ home in 1928 and had moved to Berlin. There she was married to Georg Arnhem.

We know nothing about Luise Franziska Lehmann’s childhood and youth. At the beginning of the 1930s she worked as a receptionist.

In 1933, she was admitted to the Friedrichsberg State Hospital (Staatskrankenanstalt Friedrichsberg) for the first time. We know nothing about the cause and circumstances of her admission to the institution. At that time, she lived as a subtenant with the merchant L. Brach at Grindelallee 45. In 1936, Luise Franziska Lehmann was in a care home (Versorgungsheim) for several months before she returned to the Friedrichsberg State Hospital on 18 August. On 3 Nov. 1936, she was transferred to the Hamburg-Langenhorn State Hospital (Staatskrankenstalt Hamburg-Langenhorn).

In the spring/summer of 1940, the "euthanasia” headquarters in Berlin, located at Tiergartenstrasse 4, planned a special operation aimed against Jews in public and private sanatoriums and nursing homes. It had the Jewish persons living in the institutions registered and moved together in what were officially so-called collection institutions. The Hamburg-Langenhorn "sanatorium and nursing home” ("Heil- und Pflegeanstalt” Hamburg-Langenhorn) was designated the North German collection institution. All institutions in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and Mecklenburg were ordered to move the Jews living in their facilities there by 18 Sept. 1940.

After all Jewish patients from the North German institutions had arrived in Langenhorn, they were taken to Brandenburg/Havel on 23 Sept. 1940, together with the Jewish patients who had lived there for some time, among them Luise Franziska Lehmann, on a transport comprised of 136 persons overall. On the same day, they were killed with carbon monoxide in the part of the former penitentiary converted into a gas-killing facility. Only one patient, Ilse Herta Zachmann, escaped this fate at first (see corresponding entry).

We do not know whether, and if so, when relatives became aware of Luise Franziska Lehmann’s death. In all documented notices, it was claimed that the records office of Chelm II or Cholm had registered her death. Those murdered in Brandenburg, however, were never in Chelm (Polish) or Cholm (German), a town east of Lublin. The former Polish sanatorium there no longer existed after SS units had murdered almost all patients on 12 Jan. 1940. Also, there was no German records office in Chelm. Its fabrication and the use of postdated dates of death served to disguise the killing operation and at the same time enabled the authorities to claim higher care expenses for periods extended accordingly.

Luise Franziska’s mother and her sister Ruth Rosalie Amalie Arnhem were also murdered in the Holocaust. They were deported from Berlin to Riga together with Ruth’s husband Georg Arnhem on 13 Jan. 1942 and perished there.

Ludwig Lehmann emigrated to Lisbon in 1934 and married there. In April/May 1937, the couple moved on to Montevideo in Uruguay. Ludwig Lehmann took his own life on 4 Dec. 1950 because – as his wife told the Hamburg restitution authority – he could not overcome the death of his mother who had been deported to Riga and murdered.

Hans Lehmann, the youngest of the Lehmann children, left Hamburg in 1926 for an unknown destination. He died in 1991 in Bad Soden/Taunus.

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

© Ingo Wille

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; 9; AB; StaH 133-1 III Staatsarchiv III, 3171-2/4 U.A. 4, Liste psychisch kranker jüdischer Patientinnen und Patienten der psychiatrischen Anstalt Langenhorn, die aufgrund nationalsozialistischer "Euthanasie"-Maßnahmen ermordet wurden, zusammengestellt von Peter von Rönn, Hamburg (Projektgruppe zur Erforschung des Schicksals psychisch Kranker in Langenhorn); 332-5 Standesämter 9099 Geburtsregister Nr. 1796/1894 Ruth Rosa Amalie Lehmann, 9120 Geburtsregister Nr. 790/1896 Luise Franziska Lehmann, 9135 Geburtsregister Nr. 2581/1897 Ludwig Lehmann, 9840 Sterberegister Nr. 603/1929 Samuel Lehmann, 13275 Geburtsregister Nr. 1996/1900 Hans Max Siegfried Lehmann; 351-11 Amt für Wiedergutmachung 20244 Ludwig Lehmann; 352-8/7 Staatskrankenanstalt Langenhorn Abl. 1/1995 Aufnahme-/Abgangsbuch Langenhorn 26.8.1939 bis 27.1.1941; UKE/IGEM, Archiv, Patienten-Karteikarte Lilly Lehmann der Staatskrankenanstalt Friedrichsberg.
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