Apartment/Flat

Herbert M. Gutmann was born in Dresden on October 15, 1879. His father was Eugen Gutmann, long-time chairman of Dresdner Bank. After studying economics, Herbert M. Gutmann joined Dresdner Bank. In 1910 he was elected to the bank's Board of Managing Directors. He was a co-founder, director and later also president of Deutsche Orient-Bank. In 1919, Herbert M. Gutmann acquired the estate of his uncle, the banker Dr. Ernst Heller, which he had already leased in 1913, and converted it into a luxurious villa in country house style, the "Herbertshof " (1919-1926).

On March 5, 1871, Rozalia Luxenburg, a Jew, social democrat and revolutionary who later called herself Rosa Luxemburg, was born at 7 Tadeusza Kościuszki Street to Eliasz Luxenburg, a woodworker, and his wife Line, née Löwenstein. Her parents were Jews in the rural-ruled town of Zamość in the part of Poland controlled by tsarist Russia.

Moritz Hanauer, merchant from Westheim was born on January 1, 1890. He lived in Göppingen in the Geislinger Stra;e. There he probably also met his later wife Julie Hirsch. From April 1938, he lived in Stuttgart at Tulpenstra&szlig 27. Moritz Hanauer managed to escape to America. There he married Julie Hirsch from Göppingen, who had already emigrated to the U.S. in 1937.

Here lived until 1942 Jenny Ortenberger, the widow of the veterinarian and slaughterhouse director Dr. Julius Ortenberger, with her children Erich and Asta. The family was deported to Bełżyce. 

Martha Trabert was born on 19.05.1899 in Grodno (Russia) and died on 05.07.1982 in Pößneck.

She married her husband Alfred Trabert on May 1, 1926 in Pößneck.

Her occupations were grocery saleswoman/market woman and motor vehicle driver in the fruit and vegetable trade Trabert. In 1939 Martha was banned from selling and lost her apartment.

In1942 she was taken into Gestapo custody and then had to do forced labor.

In1943 Martha was sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp and in 1945 to the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Adolf Mayer was born and grew up in Hanau (Hesse) in 1881, he did a commercial apprenticeship and later held leading positions in various magazine publishing houses.  After the First World War, he came to Pößneck and lived at Kastanienallee 5 with his non-Jüdish wife. Adolf Mayer was the director of the Gerold and Vogel publishing houses, both of which were very modern for their time. In 1936 he had to give up his position and do unskilled work. He  was not deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto until  January 1945, because he was very respected and he had a "German" wife.