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Albert Rosenstein * 1882

Bogenstraße 5 (Eimsbüttel, Eimsbüttel)

HIER WOHNTE
ALBERT ROSENSTEIN
JG. 1882
VERHAFTET 1938
ZUCHTHAUS FUHLSBÜTTEL
SACHSENHAUSEN
DEPORTIERT 1942
ERMORDET IN
AUSCHWITZ

further stumbling stones in Bogenstraße 5:
Elisabeth Flatau, Carl Stefan Flatau, Fanny Klein (Kleinberger), David Walter Kohlstädt, Margareta Kohlstädt, Manfred Kohlstädt, Helmuth Kohlstädt, Henriette Rosenstein

Albert Rosenstein, born on 23 May 1882 in Neustadt/Rübenberge, deported on 11 July 1942 to Auschwitz

For Albert, two Stolpersteine were laid, one each at Bogenstrasse 5 and at Rutschbahn 5.

Albert was born as the youngest of three siblings in 1882 in Neustadt/Rübenberge. His parents were Moritz and Johanna Rosenstein. The Rosensteins were an old-established Jewish family that enjoyed a high standing in town, especially due to the father’s participation and wounding in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871. In Neustadt, Albert probably attended the Jewish primary school (Elementarschule).

Even when he was still a young man, he moved to Hamburg, where he married his wife Henriette, née Oppenheim, on 1 Feb. 1907. Only a few weeks later, on 16 Mar. 1907, their first child was born, Margarethe, and one year later, son Arthur followed (on 30 Mar. 1908).
In 1915, Albert Rosenstein fought as a soldier in World War I, and, seriously injured and traumatized, he required extended treatment in a military hospital in Giessen.

Albert was a trained master butcher, opening a butcher’s shop and mail order company for meats and sausages at Bogenstrasse 5 in 1920. Though his wife had not learned the butcher’s trade, she acquired skills by collaborating in the business, enabling her to work there independently as well. Thus, she was able to take over the butcher’s operation starting in 1930 when Albert suffered a nervous breakdown due to his post-war trauma, preventing him from continuing the business. It is not clear how long the butcher’s shop continued to exist because the business was not registered from 1932 onward anymore and according to the directory, the Rosensteins moved to Rutschbahn 5 that same year. However, son Arthur Rosenstein pointed out to the Restitution Office (Amt für Wiedergutmachung) in the post-war period that it continued to exist under Henriette’s name until 1937. By that time at the latest, it was forced to close because of a Nazi ordinance.

In 1935, Albert’s sisters moved in with their brother in Hamburg.
Albert’s son Arthur, on the other hand, emigrated with his wife Rosa to the USA, where he survived the Second World War and the persecution of Jews.
After the night of the November Pogrom on 9/10 Nov. 1938, Albert was arrested and initially interned in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp. Subsequently, he was committed to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, being released from there on 14 Dec. 1938.

At the end of the 1930s, Albert and Henriette Rosenstein had to work in jobs for which they were overqualified in order to secure their livelihood. Starting in 1940, Albert worked as a butcher in the Jewish Hospital on Eckernförder Strasse for a fraction of his previous income. He stayed with this employer even when it was relocated to the former Dr. Calmann Clinic on Johnsallee.
In Mar. 1942, Albert and Henriette had to give up their apartment on Rutschbahn and move to Bundesstrasse 43, into a "Jews’ house” ("Judenhaus”). The Jewish Community was forced to relocate Jews to such buildings, for the most part owned by the Community, when Jews had been given notice by their landlords due to the "Law on Tenancies with Jews” ("Gesetz über die Mietverhältnisse mit Juden”) or in cases when the Gestapo demanded residential space for bombed-out German "national comrades” ("Volksgenossen”).

On 11 July of the same year, Albert, along with his wife, daughter Margarethe, and his grandsons Manfred (born in 1930) and Hellmuth (born in 1931), were deported to Auschwitz, where all traces of them disappear.
Albert Rosenstein’s two sisters were also murdered in the Shoah.


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

Stand: October 2018
© Robin Williamson

Quellen: StaHH 315-15 Oberfinanzpräsident, Devisenstelle und Vermögensverwertungsstelle, FVg 6016; StaHH, 332-5 Standesämter, Generalregister Heiraten 47019 Heiraten 1901-1910; StaHH 315-15 Oberfinanzpräsident, Devisenstelle und Vermögensverwertungsstelle, FVg 6016; StaHH, 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinden, 992b, Kultussteuerkartei der Deutsch-Israelitischen Gemeinde Hamburg, Kultussteuerkarte Albert Rosenstein; Hamburger Adressbücher (HAB) 1932; http://www.ak-regionalgeschichte.de/html/neustadt_a__rbge___judische_op.html (Zugriff am 15.7.2014); http://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch (Zugriff am 28.4.2014); http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=1693810&language=en (Zugriff am 28.4.2014); http://www.statistik-des-holocaust.de/list_ger_nwd_420711.html (Zugriff am 25.4.2014); http://stolpersteine-hamburg.de/index.php?MAIN_ID=7&BIO_ID=633 (Zugriff am 03.7.2014); http://www.xn--jdische-gemeinden-22b.de/index.php/gemeinden/m-o/1422-neustadt-a-rbge-niedersachsen (Zugriff am 28.6.2014).