Stöckel, Elise Felicitas

Elise Hollaender was born in Berlin on September 21, 1872, the 13th and last child of her Jewish parents, Siegmund Hollaender, a general practitioner, and his wife Renette, née Danziger. Elise had 9 sisters and 3 brothers: Adolf Hollaender became a violinist, studied with Joseph Joachim, among others, and directed the Stern Conservatory; Viktor Hugo Hollaender wrote many operettas and was a conductor at the Metropoltheater, his son was the well-known Friedrich Hollaender; Felix Mendelssohn Hollaender was a dramaturge with Max Reinhardt, among others. Elise's sister Martha married the Nobel Peace Prize winner Alfred Fried, another sister married the brother of the philosopher Lassen. Helene Wiegottwill married the stockbroker and chemist Fedor Lehmann.