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Georg Lissauer * 1912

Hallerstraße 64 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)

HIER WOHNTE
GEORG
LISSAUER
JG. 1912
VERHAFTET 1936
GEFÄNGNIS HAMBURG
1939 SACHSENHAUSEN
DEPORTIERT 1941
ERMORDET IN
MINSK

further stumbling stones in Hallerstraße 64:
Dr. Edgar Fels, Elfriede Lissauer, Uri Lissauer

Georg Gedalje Gerulja Lissauer, born 20 Dec. 1912 in Lübeck, deported 8 Nov. 1941 to Minsk
Elfriede Lissauer, née Cohn, born 13 Jan. 1920 in Hamburg, deported 18 Nov. 1941 to Minsk
Uri Lissauer, born 16 Aug. 1940 in Hamburg, deported 18 Nov. 1941 to Minsk

Hallerstraße 64

Gedalje Gerulja Lissauer, called Georg, grew up in Lübeck with two older siblings. His father, the product trader Marcus Efraim Lissauer born in Moisling on 20 Feb. 1866, belonged to a family with branches in Moisling, Lübeck and Hamburg. Rosa, née Gombinski, Georg’s mother born on 12 Jan. 1876, came from Stargard in Western Pomerania.

After their wedding, his parents first lived in Schwerin where Georg’s brother Ferdinand was born on 9 Feb. 1909 and his sister Jenny on 29 Oct. 1910. A short time later the family moved to Lübeck where Georg Lissauer was born on 20 Dec. 1912. Like his two siblings, he attended Lübeck’s public elementary school and religion classes at the synagogue, possibly secondary school too. Lübeck’s Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zwi Carlebach taught the religion classes from 1919 to 1921. When Dr. Carlebach was appointed Hamburg’s chief rabbi in 1936, he will have run into his one-time student for Georg Lissauer had moved there in 1934. While still in Lübeck, he finished training as a druggist. In Hamburg he first found accommodation in a home for young people at Beneckestraße 2 and underwent training as a gardener to prepare for settling in Palestine. The following year he worked in Hamburg as a laboratory assistant. In late 1935, the Lübeck Local Court charged the twenty-two-year-old with violating paragraph 367 of the criminal code, likely for unauthorized use of pharmaceutical drugs, and sentenced him to three weeks in prison.

In Hamburg Georg Lissauer was by and large on his own. His father Marcus Efraim Lissauer had died on 22 Dec. 1930, his brother Ferdinand had already passed away in 1929, having only reached 20 years of age. Georg Lissauer wrote down his 81-year-old Uncle Joseph Lissauer in his prison file as his closest relative in Hamburg to be notified in "special circumstances”. After his release from prison, he found work with the "legal consultants” Herbert Samson and Edgar Haas who were only allowed to represent Jewish clients.

On the first day of the pogrom in Nov. 1938, Georg Lissauer was arrested along with hundreds of his fellow persecuted men in Hamburg. The following day he was taken out of Gestapo custody and moved to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, from which he was not released until 18 Jan. 1939. The following month, he married Elfriede Cohn, born in Hamburg on 3 Jan. 1920 as the only daughter of Samuel Cohn, born in Adelnau on 28 May 1872, and Sophie Cohn, née Koppel, born in Hamburg on 25 Dec. 1891. Elfriede Cohn had grown up in very poor conditions. Her father’s tailoring work and small tobacco store on Poolstraße brought in so little income that the family was reliant on support from the welfare office as of 1927. On 16 Aug. 1940, Georg and Elfriede Lissauer’s son Uri was born in Hamburg.

On 8 Nov. 1941, Georg Lissauer was deported from Hamburg to Minsk and killed at an unknown point in time. His wife and their young son were deported to their death in Minsk on the transport that followed on 18 Nov. 1941.

Georg Lissauer’s mother was also among the victims killed. She was deported to Riga on 6 Dec. 1941 and killed. Sophie Cohn, née Koppel, the widowed mother of his wife Elfriede was deported from Hamburg to Theresienstadt on 15 July 1942. From there she was deported to her death in Auschwitz on 12 Oct. 1944.

In 1934 Georg Lissauer’s sister Jenny wed the commercial clerk Karl Blum in Hamburg who had been born in Idstein on 27 Nov. 1907. The marriage fell apart after a short time. Jenny Blum left Hamburg in Feb. 1935 with her son Manfred whom she had given birth to in Hamburg on 7 Jan. 1935 and moved back in with her mother in Lübeck. She later married in Berlin and her married name was Kaminsky. She and her son Manfred were deported to Riga on 26 Oct. 1942 and killed.


Translator: Suzanne von Engelhardt
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.


Stand: September 2019
© Jürgen Sielemann

Quellen: 1; StaH 351-14 Arbeits- und Sozialfürsorge – Sonderakten, 1076, Samuel Cohn; StaH 242-1 II Gefängnisverwaltung II, Abl. 13, Gefangenenkartei, Georg Lissauer; StaH 213-8 Staatsanwaltschaft Oberlandesgericht – Verwaltung, Abl. 2, 451 a E 1 1 c, Meldungen der Schutzhaftkosten für Gefangene im Polizeigefängnis Fuhlsbüttel; Sielemann (Bearb.), Hamburger jüdische Opfer, S. 41 und 254; div. Auskünfte Heidemarie Kugler-Weiemann, Lübeck.
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