Practice Dr. med. Nathan Albert Ransohoff

The neurologist and psychiatrist Dr. med. Nathan Albert Ransohoff was born in Nieheim, Westphalia, in 1872 and was the medical director of the Stephansfeld-Hördt asylum in Alsace from 1904 to 1919. After the First World War, he was expelled from Alsace in 1919 and came to Lüneburg in a roundabout way in 1921 together with his wife Hilma Ransohoff, née Bagge. Here he worked for two years as a medical councillor for the government president before opening a psychiatry practice in 1923 - first from 1921 to 1926 at Lindenstraße 26, then from 1926 to 1930 at Lünertorstraße 17 and from 1930 to 1939 at Altenbrückerdamm 1.

He was involved in many different activities and was a respected citizen of the city of Lüneburg. When the NSDAP came to power in 1933, he became a victim of disenfranchisement and anti-Semitic violence because of his Jewish faith. During the pogrom night of November 9, 1938, his home and surgery were destroyed. He was arrested and deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. After his release, he was forced to sell his house and moved to Hamburg with his non-Jewish wife.

The Ransohoff couple survived the last years of the war in a German retirement home near Lauenburg. During lengthy negotiations about the restitution of his estate, Nathan Albert Ransohoff died in Hamburg in 1951.

From: https://www.pk.lueneburg.de/gedenkstaette/veroeffentlichungen/nathan-albert-ransohoff