Family Josef Salomon

The merchant Josef Salomon, born on 21.4.1866 in Neustadt near Pinne, married in 1889 in Berlin the tailor Emilie Charlotte Auguste Koeppen. Shortly after their marriage, their first son, Martin Franz, was born on March 13, 1890. On 11.1.1894 then followed Alfred Leopold.

In 1938 Josef Salomon bought a tenement house in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Nassauische Str.36, which he had to foreclose three years later. On March 12, 1943, he took his own life in his apartment in Prenzlauer Allee. The sons had left Berlin in the meantime: Martin Franz settled in London as a publishing bookseller. However, he left his wife Erna Meta Viktoria Stensch behind. She was deported in 1942 and died in the Stutthof concentration camp in August 1944. Alfred Leopold had moved to Managua/Nicaragua, where he worked as a doctor. In 1941, his son Alfredo was born here.

In 1949, Emilie Salomon filed an application for Rückerstattung of the property in Nassauische Straße. Since she died in the course of the long proceedings in 1951, her two sons took over the legal succession. It was not until 1954 that a settlement was reached, which Martin Franz was to survive by only a few months. The doctor Dr. Alfred Salomon, who had returned to Berlin and was now the sole heir, sold the house shortly before his death in 1957 and bequeathed the sale proceeds to his son Alfredo, who was still a minor.