Law firm Dr. Erich Hannach

Erich Hannach, the youngest son of the entrepreneurial couple Julius and Emmy Hannach, was born on September 25, 1900 in Lissa (province of Poznan). He studied law at the universities of Breslau, Freiburg, Heidelberg and Berlin. He worked as a trainee lawyer in Magdeburg from the end of 1923 and was admitted to the bar in December 1928. His law firm was located at Breiten Weg 42. On May 5, 1933, he was banned from representing clients and in June of the same year his name was removed from the lists of licensed lawyers at the Magdeburg district and regional courts. On November 10, 1938, Dr. Erich Hannah and his brother Kurt Paul are arrested together with around 130 Magdeburg Jewish men, taken to the police prison and deported from there to Buchenwald concentration camp on November 11. Dr. Erich Hannach was released from Buchenwald concentration camp on the day of his mother Emmy Hannach's suicide on 22 November 1938, while his brother Kurt Paul returned on 25 November 1938, one day after his father's suicide. Both brothers initially emigrated to England without their wives and children. From there they went to Australia in 1940 and were able to bring their wives and children with them to settle in. Dr. Erich Hannach emigrated to Palestine in 1942. He dies in Tel Aviv in 1970.