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Gustav Meier * 1888

Stresowstraße 62 (Hamburg-Mitte, Rothenburgsort)

HIER WOHNTE
GUSTAV MEIER
JG. 1888
VERHAFTET 1942
KZ FUHLSBÜTTEL
1942 MAUTHAUSEN
ERMORDET 9.1.1943

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Gustav Meier, born on 15 Sept. 1888 in Stürzelberg, died on 9 Jan. 1943 in the Mauthausen concentration camp

Stresowstrasse 62 (Stresowstrasse 100)

Gustav Meier’s father, the butcher Josef Meier, married to Johanna Meier, née Baum, lived with his family in Stürzelberg, a small town near Dormagen on the Lower Rhine. It was impossible to establish whether he already converted from the Jewish faith to Catholicism or only Gustav, or when and whom Gustav Meier married as his first wife, or when he moved to Hamburg. He was a plumber by trade. On 29 Mar. 1930, he was married a second time, to Johanna Rogge, born on 3 Nov. 1898 in St. Pauli and a member of the Lutheran Church. Johanna Meier’s father, the worker Wilhelm Rogge, had moved with his wife Marie, née Bergemann, from the Ruppin District to Hamburg at the turn of the century, already passing away in 1925.

Johanna and Gustav Meier resided at Glashüttenstrasse 87, subsequently moving to Stresowstrasse 100 in Rothenburgsort.

On 30 Oct. 1933, Gustav Meier was detained for one day in the Fuhlsbüttel prison for a "misdemeanor” about which we have no details. His Jewish descent was not known yet but in the course of the German national census in May 1939, he was classified as a "full Jew.” He was forced to assume the compulsory first name of "Israel,” though he complied with this condition only on 23 Sept. 1941. He never belonged to the Jewish Community.

On 19 Sept. 1942, he was imprisoned in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp and transferred to the Mauthausen concentration camp on 12 Nov. 1942. Based on the prisoner number 15,210 in the arrivals book of the political section, it was possible to establish 26 Nov. 1942 as the date of his committal, which raises the question of his whereabouts in the interim. The Mauthausen concentration camp was the only Level III (Stufe III) camp "for protective custody prisoners with barely any chance of educability remaining.” Committals to this camp were tantamount to a death sentence. Gustav Meier shared this fate with 27 men listed in the Memorial Book of Hamburg Jews deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp, of whom five had been detained in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp before. On 9 Jan. 1943, Gustav Meier died in the Mauthausen main camp, allegedly of jaundice and circulatory weakness.

His widow Johanna worked as a streetcar conductor, fell seriously ill, and died on 15 Apr. 1944, at the age of 45, in the Eppendorf University Hospital. "The deceased was the widow of the plumber Gustav Israel Meier, last place of residence unknown,” reads the entry in the register of deaths. Accordingly, Gustav Meier’s death was known at this time.


Translator: Erwin Fink

Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: October 2017
© Hildegard Thevs

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