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Fritz Nathansen * 1909

Hudtwalckerstraße 23 (Hamburg-Nord, Winterhude)

HIER WOHNTE
FRITZ NATHANSEN
JG. 1909
FLUCHT 1937
HOLLAND
INTERNIERT WESTERBORK
DEPORTIERT 1942
AUSCHWITZ
ERMORDET 31.8.1942

further stumbling stones in Hudtwalckerstraße 23:
Martha Nathansen

Fritz Nathansen, born 18.3.1909 in Hamburg, deported 15.7.1942 from Westerbork to Auschwitz, murdered 31.8.1942

Hudtwalckerstrasse 23 (Winterhude)

Fritz Georg Joseph Nathansen was born in Hamburg on March 18, 1909, the second son of Nathalius Nathansen (born 1872) and Martha Nathansen, née Eisenmann (1879-1942). The family lived in Hamburg-Harvestehude at Brahmsallee 16 (1905-1911) and Isestraße 26 (1912-1930).

His brother Otto Nathansen (born Febr 4, 1906 in Hamburg), who was three years older, attended the private Wahnschaff-Realschule (Neue Rabenstraße 14-15) until about 1921 and then the private commercial school "Höhere Handels-Lehranstalt Büsch-Institut" (Große Theaterstraße 32) for one year. After an apprenticeship in shoe wholesale at the company N. Beer (Großer Burstah 36-38) and further stations in the shoe industry, he became a representative of the Hertz Schuhfabrik from Offenbach in 1932.

We do not know which school Fritz attended. After school and presumably commercial training, he is said to have become a buyer for a textile company in Hamburg. In 1932-1933 he lived together with his mother and his brother on the first floor of Hudtwalckerstraße 23. (The Stolperstein for him is laid there).

He emigrated to Amsterdam in the Netherlands at the end of 1933. In September 1936 his brother Otto emigrated via Amsterdam and Great Britain to the USA. His mother Martha Nathansen also emigrated to Amsterdam in June 1939.

On February 9, 1938, Fritz Nathansen married Gerda Mathis (born July 4, 1911 in Breslau) in Amsterdam, who had emigrated to the Netherlands in February 1936 and had previously lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

From May 31, 1938, they lived in Amsterdam as subtenants with the married tobacco broker Nardus Boekdrukker (1888-1940) at Zuider Amstellaan 11 III. floor (today Rooseveltlaan 11). Boekdrukker had moved from Hilversum only two weeks before. On the Amsterdam residents' registration card, Fritz Nathansen's occupation was given as textile merchant. After the death of Nardus Boekdrukker on August 15, 1940, they continued to live with his widow Marianna Boekdrukker, née Goudstikker (born Aug. 1, 1884 in Bergen op Zoom).

Fritz and Gerda Nathansen were deported from the Westerbork camp in the occupied Netherlands to the Auschwitz death camp on July 15, 1942.

Gerda Nathansen was murdered immediately after arrival on July 18, 1942.

Fritz Nathansen was murdered in Auschwitz on August 31, 1942.

Translation by Beate Meyer
Stand: January 2022
© Björn Eggert

Quellen: Staatsarchiv Hamburg (StaH) 351-11 (Amt für Wiedergutmachung), 30442 (Otto Nathansen); Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Indexen, Archiefkaarten Gemeente Amsterdam 1939-1960 (Nardus Boekdrukker, Gerda Mathis, Fritz Nathansen); Arolsen Archives 130346313; Staatsarchiv Hamburg, Hamburger jüdische Opfer des Nationalsozialismus. Gedenkbuch, Hamburg 1995, S. 306 (Fritz Nathansen, Martha Nathansen); Adressbuch Hamburg (Große Theaterstraße 32) 1922; Amsterdam Adresboeken 1939/1940 (Straßenverzeichnis: Amstellaan, Zuider 11, N.M. Boekdrukker; Personenverzeichnis: N.M. Boekdrukker, Makelaar in Tabak, Zuider Amstellaan 11); https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/ (Fritz G. Nathansen); www.joodsmonument.nl (Fritz Nathansen, Amsterdam, Zuider Amstellaan 11 III).