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Dr. Ferdinand Jacquet * 1881

Parkallee 82 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude)

HIER WOHNTE
DR. FERDINAND
JACQUET
JG. 1881
GEDEMÜTIGT / ENTRECHTET
TOT 12.1.1940

further stumbling stones in Parkallee 82:
Irma Jacquet, Anna Salomon, Anna Stiel, Philipp Marx Stiel

Irma Jacquet, née Goldschmidt, born on 10 Aug. 1884, flight to death on 18 Nov. 1941

Dr. Ferdinand Otto Jacquet, born on 14 Feb. 1881, died on 12 Jan. 1940

Parkallee 82, Harvestehude

"I am departing life voluntarily,” wrote Irma Jacquet, shortly before administering a morphine injection to herself.

Irma Goldschmidt was born as the fifth child of the Jewish married couple Abraham Baruch Goldschmidt and his wife Eugenie Isabella Emmalina Hirtz (also called Hert/ Hirt) at Bornstrasse 3 in Hamburg on 10 Aug. 1884. One sister had been stillborn in 1878, another, Sophie, born on 9 Sept. 1888, died on 9 Feb. 1889 in Hamburg. Irma grew up with her sisters Alide, Else, and her brother Joseph Adolph.

Her father, Abraham Baruch Goldschmidt, worked as a wool merchant in Hamburg at Rödingsmarkt 60. Her mother, Eugenie, died at Grindelallee 44 on 25 Nov. 1890, when Irma was just six years old, and she was buried in a single grave in the Ilandkoppel Jewish Cemetery.

Abraham Baruch Goldschmidt re-married, to Recha Goldschmidt, née Bendix, on 8 Oct. 1895 in Hamburg. He passed away on 25 July 1904 at Klosterallee 22, where he had been born. He was buried in the Ilandkoppel Cemetery, where Recha Goldschmidt was later buried as well.

We know almost nothing about Irma’s childhood and her schooling. One detail known, however, is that she worked in her parents’ wool store. Her family owned the store in the second generation. After Abraham Baruch Goldschmidt’s death, his widow Recha took over the business on 25 July 1904, and she was entered in the company register as general manager. Irma’s brother continued to run the business after the death of his stepmother on 26 Apr. 1921. Irma had a share of 100,000 RM in the woolen goods business, her sister Else Herz held a share of 50,000 RM.

In 1918, Irma Goldschmidt lived in Hamburg at Frauenthal 27 in the Harvestehude quarter and then at Woldsenweg 11 in Eppendorf. She then moved to Andreasstrasse 2 in Winterhude, residing on the third floor at that address. On 26 June 1924, she set out on a trip with the SS "Goorkha” to London to visit her sister Alide, who had been living there with her husband Israel Gollancz for some time.

Ferdinand Otto Jacquet fell in love with Irma, who was apparently a beautiful woman with dark brown hair and brown eyes. Since 15 Nov. 1922, he had been residing in Hamburg at Museumsstrasse 31 in Altona, with Falk on the third floor. The couple got married on 12 Sept. 1924, at the Registry Office 3 in Hamburg.

Ferdinand Otto Jacquet had been born in Frankfurt/Main on 14 Feb. 1881, the first of four children of the non-Jewish married couple Carl Jacquet and Johanna Friederike Martha, née Meyer. His father Carl Jacquet was a furniture manufacturer and merchant in Frankfurt/Main based at Kaiserstrasse 33. Ferdinand Otto Jacquet studied, wrote a dissertation in law, and he was licensed to practice as a lawyer. He fought as a soldier in the First World War.

According to the Jewish religious tax (Kultussteuer) card file of the Hamburg Jewish Community, from 1922 onward he worked as a merchant in the wool goods store operated by his brother-in-law Joseph Adolph Goldschmidt at Rödingsmarkt 60. Upon the latter’s death on 4 Jan. 1933, the business at Rödingsmarkt was given up. He was buried on 8 Jan. 1933.

The marriage of Irma and Ferdinand Otto Jacquet remained childless. Under principal Albert Jonas, Irma taught the girls enrolled at the girls’ secondary school at 35 Carolinenstrasse in the subjects of home economics from 1924 to 1926. In this class, sewing, cooking, and nutritional science were taught. Irma’s annual salary for the year 1924 was 553.56 RM (reichsmark). The girls’ school (Töchterschule) of the imperial era, intended to provide poor Jewish girls with a solid education, transformed into an elementary and intermediate secondary school (Volks- und Realschule), where girls from all Jewish population strata could learn together.

From 1926 to 1931, the couple lived at Beim Andreasbrunnen 2 in Eppendorf, then moved to Eppendorfer Landstrasse 36, and from 1932 to 1938 to an apartment at Thielengasse 2 in Winterhude.

The couple resided at Haynstrasse 10 from 1938, and Ferdinand Otto Jacquet died on 12 Jan. 1940 in the Eppendorf University Hospital. He had suffered from severe heart problems and high blood pressure, which had resulted in his death. The location where he was buried is not known.

Within the next few months, Irma dissolved her household on Haynstrasse and as of 1 July 1940, she moved in as a subtenant with Anna Salomon at Parkallee 82. For many years, she had been a close friend of Anna Salomon, née Wolff, born on 31 Jan. 1876 in Löbau/West Prussia (today Lubawa in Poland). Anna had been renting a two-and-a-half-bedroom apartment, and Irma moved into one of the rooms. According to her non-Jewish friend Gerda Wacker after the war, they were happy that their loneliness had ended. Bridge evenings were a common hobby of the two women. Their friend Gerda Wacker supported them in every way, including financially, but also helped them when the Gestapo was searching their homes. Gerda Wacker, who lived on Isestrasse, had had a telephone line since 1940, and Anna Salomon had also had a telephone since 1930. This enabled the women to communicate by phone.

Irma was scheduled for deportation to Minsk on 8 Nov. 1941. Both she and Anna no longer saw any sense in continuing to live. Thus, Irma Jacquet wrote the line mentioned at the outset. On 17 Nov. 1941, both of them took a morphine injection in their apartment at Parkallee 82. Anna Salomon died the same day. Irma Jacquet was admitted to the Jewish Hospital on Johnsallee and passed away the next day.

Irma Jacquet, who was buried in an urn next to her brother Joseph Adolph in grave M2 117 at the Jewish Cemetery on Ilandkoppel on 12 Dec. 1941, has been commemorated by a Stolperstein at Parkallee 82. Lest her deceased husband be forgotten, a Stolperstein was also laid there for him. Irma Jacquet’s niece has commemorated her in the Israeli Memorial at Yad Vashem with Pages of Testimony.
Anna Salomon has also been commemorated by a Stolperstein at Parkallee 83.

The following details are known about the fate of Irma’s siblings:
Irma’s oldest sister Alide had married Israel Gollancz in Britain in the summer months of 1910. The couple lived in Paddington, Great Britain. Alide Gollancz died in England on19 June 1965.

Irma’s brother Joseph Adolph had married Alice Johanna Juliette Gans in Hamburg on 28 Aug. 1919. He was found dead in his apartment on the morning of 3 Jan. 1933. His wife Alice Johanna Juliette entered a second marital union on 15 June 1937, to Alfred Burgheim in Hamburg. In 1939, the couple fled to the United States with their two children, Adolph Benat (born on 9 Dec. 1920) and Lotte (born on 14 May 1924), both from her marriage to Joseph Adolph Goldschmidt.

Sister Else (born on 12 Nov. 1882) had studied German and philosophy at the University of Kiel. On 14 Dec. 1910, she married the well-known Social Democrat and Jewish lawyer Carl Herz in Hamburg, and the couple had three children. Carl Herz was chased out of office as district mayor of Berlin-Kreuzberg in 1933. The family emigrated to London in 1939.

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

Stand: December 2020
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