Residential and commercial building owned by Max Carl Hauptmann
The apartment building belonged to the lawyer, judge and notary Max Carl Hauptmann. After losing his left leg as a front-line fighter in World War I, Hauptmann studied law in Jena and Heidelberg. From 1920 he held various positions in Gera. He himself lived at Tivolistr. 8, later at Amthorstr. 1a, and rented out the apartments in his house. From the mid-1930s, he increasingly rented out to destitute and needy Jews and, after his successive occupational ban (delayed by the "Frontkämpferprivileg"), earned his meager living from the rents. Hauptmann fled to Argentina in 1937.
Untermhäuser cemetery
The grave of the Bloch family can be found in the Untermhäuser cemetery on Untermhäuser Straße.
East Cemetery
Finally, the East Cemetery was co-occupied, where Jews were buried within various sections (Dept. B: Halpern family), Dept. E: Biermann family, Dept. I: Hirsch family). Several graves of former Jewish residents, including the resting place of the Salomon family, are found in Section VIe. The members of the family jointly chose suicide on September 18, 1941: Dr. Oscar Salomon 1863-1941, Martha Salomon 1873-1941 and Dr. Hans Salomon 1898-1941). Next to the grave of the Salomon family are several Jewish graves.
South Cemetery
From 1883, the new southern cemetery in Wiesestraße was also used. Also on it individual Jewish graves were found.