Colonnialwaaren- und Delikatessenhandlung - Gustav Landau

The address book of the city of Darmstadt from 1895 contains the following entry: Landau Gustav, Colonnialwaaren- und Delikatessenhandlung, Inh.: Gustav Landau, Maktplatz 7 - Born in Bingen, Gustav Landau was the scion of a traditional family of wine merchants and learned the trade of a merchant before marrying Bertha Hachenburger on August 25, 1878. August 25, 1878  Bertha Hachenburger, daughter of Aron Hachenburger, born on January 28, 1819 in Darmstadt and Johanna Herz, born in 1832 in Guntersblum.Gustav and Bertha Landau first lived in Bingen, where their daughters Sidonie, born on August 9, 1881, - Anna Maria, born on May 29, 1884 and Pauline, born on November 22, 1885 were born.1890/On March 6, 1891, Lilli Emma was born - she died only a few months later - and on June 7, 1893, son August followed - Gustav Landau passed away on February 3, 1896. There is no information about the reasons for this step, but in the 1898 address book the address for Gustav Landau's widow is listed as Karlstr. 74 ½ Pauline Landau, who lived at Alexanderstr. 11 and from there provided for her widowed mother, lived at Karlstr. 74 ½ with her mother from 1939. Bertha Landau died on November 25, 1940 and after her death Pauline moved in with her widowed sister Sidonie at Orangerieallee 9 On March 20, 1942 Sidonie and Paula Landau were deported from the Darmstadt train station to the Piaski-Lublin ghetto and murdered in the Belzec and Majdanek extermination camps.Anna-Maria Landau married the merchant Max Vollmond from Copenhagen on May 10, 1916, and survived the Holocaust.August Landau moved to Gießen in 1914. There he worked as a civil servant at the Mitteldeutsche Creditbank. After serving in the military from April 1915 to November 1918, he continued his previous work until he moved to Cologne in October 1919. The date of his return to Darmstadt is not known. He died on July 28, 1936 in his Darmstadt apartment at Karlstrasse 74 ½.