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The Ziegler family

Heinrich Ziegler, born in 1884, was an important Jewish doctor. He worked at the maternity clinic and as a school doctor. However, after the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he lost these public positions because of his Jewish origins, even though he had served in the First World War. This dismissal was part of the systematic discrimination and exclusion of Jewish citizens by the Nazi regime. From then on, Ziegler was only able to treat private patients, which severely limited his professional opportunities.

Born on 06.07.1885 in Obernkirchen, district of Rinteln, died on 10.05.1957 in London at the age of 72

Former residence of Dr. Emil Strauß at Lüner Weg 8 – a bomb attack was carried out here in 1929; the lawyer was considered a central target of anti-Jewish attacks due to his great influence within Lüneburg and the Jewish community and fled into exile to London in 1939.

His law practice was located at Kleine Bäckerstra&;e 6/7.

The address book of the city of Nürnberg from 1882 contains the following entry: Obstgasse 2, Rindskopf Lippm., merchant. - Johanna (Hanna) Rindskopf was born on October 26, 1830. Her parents were Arnold (Ahron) Arnstein, born on November 23, 1800 in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, and Adelheid Kohn, born on February 3, 1803 in  Markt Erlbach . Johanna Arnstein was married to Lippmann Rindskopf, born on August 25, 1819, son of Seligmann (Selke) Rindskopf, born on March 9, 1797 and Babette (Breindel) Rindskopf, née Arnstein, born in 1799.

Max Oppenheimer was born in Feuchtwangen on June 15, 1895. His parents were the master tanner and owner of a leather shop Leopold Oppenheimer and Karoline Oppenheimer, née Silbermann. Max Oppenheimer also had a sister, Betthy, born on March 16, 1889 in Feuchtwangen. She was married to the brush manufacturer Steindecker from Bechhofen, owner of the Marx Schloß brush factory there. Betthy Steindecker. She was deported from Nürnberg to Izbica and has since been considered missing. Max Oppenheimer was a private in the 3rd Infantry Regiment No. 23.

Joseph Nathan was born on September 15, 1884 in Kerpen. He lived in Cuxhaven and was a cattle dealer by trade. In 1909, his first marriage was to Lina Solmitz (born 1883) from Kampsheide (Hoya).

The couple moved from Cuxhaven to Bremervörde. They moved into their first apartment there with the master butcher Gütersloh at Neue Straße 118.

After his wife Lina died in 1933, Joseph Nathan moved from Bremervörde to Stade. Alongside the Davids family and Fritz de Jonge he was now the third Jewish cattle dealer in the town.

Adolf Heidemann was born on August 15, 1887 in Osterholz-Scharmbeck.

He was a bank clerk and married Therese Senior, born on June 5, 1891 in Halberstadt, in 1919. Their only daughter Ruth was also born there in 1920.

The family came to Stade in 1922, initially living at Bungenstra e 19 and moving into a spacious apartment at Bremerv rder Stra e 31 in 1932.

Fritz Friedlaender was born on February 3, 1920 in Stade.

His father Gotthelf Friedlaender, together with Moritz Wertheim was the owner of the Friedlaender & Wertheim banking house.

In 1933, he celebrated his bar mitzvah (religious observance) in Stade.

Fritz attended the Athenaeum until 1935, which he had to leave as the only pupil of the Jewish community in Stade due to increasing discrimination. In the following years, he prepared for emigration to Palestine.

Frieda Freudenstein, née Frenkel, was born on May 1, 1864 in Varenholz (NRW).

Frieda's sister Johanne had already moved to Stade and married the businessman David Jacobson.

After her sister's death, Frieda Frenkel took over the upbringing of her four immature children, including Ernst Ludwig Jacobson, who later became known as Ernst Harthern (pseudonym Niels Hoyer) as a writer and cultural mediator between Germany and Scandinavia.

Moritz Wertheim was born on March 25, 1880 in Helmarshausen (Hesse). He moved to Stade in 1923 and lived at Teichstrasse 6. As a partner of Gotthelf Friedlaender, he became co-owner of the small banking house Friedlaender & Wertheim in Großen Schmiedestraße.

Fritz (Friedrich Wilhelm) de Jonge was born on October 24, 1876 in Weener, East Frisia. There were several families named de Jonge in Weener, who originally came from the Netherlands. Fritz is probably the son of the butcher Abraham de Jonge and his wife Elise de Jonge, née Wolff, and thus the youngest brother of Benjamin de Jonge (born 1873) and Simon de Jonge (born 1874).