Residence of Max Martin Sigmund Heinemann, Dr. phil., classical philologist, publishing bookseller, teacher

Dr. phil. Max Martin Sigmund Heinemann was born in Berlin as the son of the teacher Adolf Heinemann and his wife Martha, née Bamberger. Orphaned at an early age, he was financially supported by relatives on his mother's side, owners of the Tannenbaum, Pariser & Co. Luckenwalde cloth factory, to attend school and university. He had been married since April 1917 to Mathilde Hermeter (2.7.1878 Rosenheim - 4.12.1943 Leipzig). She and her daughter Anna Veronika (1896-1942) converted to the Jewish faith in February 1917. Anna Veronika married Dr. phil. Max Hofmann (1886-1966) on Nov. 13, 1926. Thus, Hofmann was not only his business partner in Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, but also his son-in-law. The joint residence of the families was Prommenadenstrasse 14. Dismissed due to the racial laws, he was placed with Kröner Verlag Stuttgart, where he edited the new edition of Sueton's "Caesarenleben". Mathilde resigned from the Jewish community in December 1938. The adoption of her daughter by Heinemann was cancelled. On 24.1.1939 the first name Israel was officially assigned to him. The couple applied for emigration to their cousin Käte Pariser in Sidney, Australia on 17.6.1940. At that time he was a teacher at the Israelite School. However, this was followed by the Zangs move to the "Judenhaus" Große Fleischergasse 16 and his forced labor in the Leipzig cemetery. Mathilde died during the bombing raid in 1943, Max broke both arms during it, was no longer able to work and was sent to the Jewish Hospital in Berlin at the beginning of 1944. From here to the collection camp for deportation to Auschwitz. There his trace is lost at the end of April 1944.