The Hamburger Family

 

The Hamburger family was one of the oldest Jewish families of the historical Hammelburg. In the midst of the 18th century "Feiber Abraham" lived in Hammelburg. He is the oldest known ancestor of the Hamburger family. He was a cattle trader (Viehhändler). A son of Feiber Abraham was "Abraham Feiber Sohn". He was born in 1775 in Hammelburg.

 

 

 

In 1811 all Jewish men must change their names. Abraham Feiber Sohn now called himself "Abraham Hamburger". His father Feiber Abraham got the new name "Feiber Hamburger". The wife of Abraham Feiber Sohn was Buhle (1772 - 1842). They had the following sons: David (*1807)  Daniel (*1808) and Emanuel (*1813). At this time the Hamburgers and the other Jewish families, who had the right to live in the little town of Hammelburg, had their houses in the "Judengasse" in the old city of Hammelburg. Here you can see the list of the 24 Jewish men, who lived in 1811 in Hammelburg and changed their names.

 

 

The old city of Hammelburg in 1846/47


Emanuel was married to Babette nee Hanauer.

She was born in 1825. Babette was the daughter of a cattle trader.

 

They had the following seven children:

 

Feiber Philipp (April 22, 1849)  Fanny (July 15, 1851)  Abraham (December 25, 1852) 

Moses (October 7, 1854)  Meier (October 19, 1855)   Simon (December 16, 1857)  Samuel (October 14, 1859)

 

Reference (Quellennachweis):

Jüdisches Standesregister 39 (Hammelburg)

Staatsarchiv Würzburg

 

 

 

 


On April 25, 1854 a horrible firestorm destroyed the old city of Hammelburg.

Jewish and Christian families lost their houses.

They learned to help each other and to forget social and religious differences.

 

 

In 1878 Abraham Hamburger (*1852) married Philippine nee Braun.

She was born in Westheim near by Haßfurt. They had the following children:

Max (*1881)  Philipp (*1883)  Hilda (*1891)

 

 

   

 

Fanny Frankenthaler

  

 

Meier Hamburger

 


The brother of Abraham, Meier Hamburger (*1855), married Fanny nee Frankenthaler.

She was the daughter of a cattle trader. She was born in 1862 in Unterweisenheim near by Würzburg.

 

They had the following nine children:

Babette (*1881)  Arnold (*1882) Selma (*1883)  Ida (*1884)  Karl (1886)  Richard (*1890) 

Alfred (*1893 + 1925)  Felix (*1896) and Maria (Mary)

 

 

 

 

In 1882 the Hamburgers lived in the Judengasse Number 244, 256 and 258.

 

Some years later Abraham Hamburger built a new house in the Niedertor-Gasse, Number 204 (today Bahnhofstraße 10). At the same time Meier Hamburger built a new house behind the town hall of Hammelburg in the Kirchgasse, Number 9/28 (today Buttenmarkt, städt. Verwaltungsgebäude IV).

 

 

 

 

Abraham and Max Hamburger

in front of their house in the Bahnhofstraße in 1912

 

On the right in the window Abraham Hamburger (*1852) with his wife Philippine nee Braun (+ 1920); standing at the window Max Hamburger (*1881) with his wife Selma Clara nee Meier; on the left their little daughter Bella, born in 1910, with a nurse maid. Photo from Josef Kirchner, Hammelburg. The second daughter of the family, Hedwig, was born in 1914.


  

 

In the Nazi-time  the Hamburger families were persecuted.

In 1936 they lost the license for the cattle trading.

In 1938 they must sell cheap all their houses and possessions and leave the town. 

 

Abraham Hamburger passed away at the age of 85

in April 26, 1938 far away from his hometown.

He was burried in the New Jewish Cemetery of Frankfurt a. M.

  

 

 

The four sons of Emanuel  from the left:

Feiber Philipp (1849 - 1921)  Abraham (1852 -1938)  Meier (1855 - 1921)  Simon (1857)

Photo from Phyllis, great-granddaughter of Meier

 

 

 

The Hamburger family lost her hometown

with all possessions, houses, meadows and fields for the animals.

 

In August 1940 the Nazis (Gestapo Würzburg)

deprived Arnold Hamburger of his German citizenship.

 

Hilda Hamburger Flörsheim was murdered in the Holocaust.

Elise Meier, the mother-in-law of Max Hamburger, died in Theresienstadt.

  

 

Yad Vashem - The Hall of Names

 

Hilda Flörsheim    Dr. Gustav Flörsheim   Ingeborg Flörsheim  

 

Ida Flörsheim   Isidor Flörsheim   Elise Meier

 

 

 

Memories - The former house of Arnold Hamburger in today´s Hammelburg

 

 

 


Hammelburger Journal in March 18, 1881

  

 

 

 

Data of the Hamburger Family - Hammelburg

 

 

 

Abraham Hamburger  * 1775 in Hammelburg  + 23.05.1873 in Hammelburg

Abraham Hamburger  * 25.12.1852 in Hammelburg  + 26.4.1938 in Frankfurt a. M.

Alfred Hamburger  * 29.04.1893 in Hammelburg  + 22.06.1925 in Bad Oynhausen

Arnold Hamburger  * 25.06.1882 in Hammelburg  + Februar 1964 in USA

Babette Hamburger, geb. Hanauer  * 31.12.1825 in Westheim  + 31.10.1879 in Hammelburg, Ehefrau des Emanuel

Babette Hamburger  * 16.02.1881 in Hammelburg

Babette Ilse Hamburger  * 19.03.1912 in Hammelburg, Tochter des Arnold

Bella Hamburger, verh. Lump  * 06.10.1910 in Hammelburg, Tochter des Max, emigriert in die USA

Berta Hamburger, geb. Strauß  * 26.10.1888 in Niederstetten, Ehefrau des Arnold Hamburger, emigriert in die USA

Bertha Hamburger  + 09.12.1879 in Hammelburg

Buhle Hamburger  * 1772  + 21.01.1842 in Hammelburg

Carolina Hamburger, geb. Fröhlich  * 02.08.1868 in Unteraltertheim, Ehefrau des Simon Hamburger

David Hamburger * 08.07.1807 in Hammelburg  + 1892 in Hammelburg

Emanuel Hamburger  * 21.07.1813 in Hammelburg  + 19.07.1896 in Hammelburg

Erich Emanuel Hamburger  * 26.12.1917 in Hammelburg, + 11.03.1991 in New Buffalo USA, Sohn des Arnold

Emilie Hamburger  + 26.09.1887

Enny Hamburger, verh. Hofmann  * 02.12.1914 in Hammelburg, Tochter des Arnold

Esther Hamburger  * 1777  + 03.09.1861 in Hammelburg

Fanny Hamburger, geb. Frankenthaler  * 04.12.1862 in Unterweisenheim, Ehefrau des Meier Hamburger

Fanny Hamburger, geb. Kohn  * 06.05.1821  + 20.08.1895 in Hammelburg, Ehefrau des David Hamburger

Feiber Philipp Hamburger  * 22.04.1849 in Hammelburg  + 1921

Felix Hamburger  * 31.03.1896 in Hammelburg

Frieda Hamburger, verh. Strauß  * 15.12.1884 in Hammelburg  + 1921 in Kulmbach

Ilse Babette Hamburger * 19.03.1912 in Hammelburg

Hedwig (Hedy) Hamburger, verh. Haas  * 08.04.1914 in Hammelburg  +  März 2013 in USA, Tochter des Max

Hilda Hamburger, verh. Flörsheim  * 27.05.1891 in Hammelburg  + erschossen 25.11.1941 in Kowno, Fort IX

Karl Hamburger  * 17.04.1886 in Hammelburg

Meier Hamburger  * 19.10.1855 in Hammelburg  + 21.08.1921 in Hammelburg

Max Hamburger  * 01.12.1881 in Hammelburg  + 1972 in New York, Sohn des Abraham

Philipp Hamburger  * 22.03.1883 in Hammelburg, Sohn des Abraham

Richard Hamburger  * 01.03.1890 in Hammelburg

Selma Hamburger, verh. Feldenheimer  * 25.06.1883 in Hammelburg

Selma Clara Hamburger, geb. Meier  * 04.11.1885 in Lohrhaupten  + April 1968 in New York, Ehefrau des Max

Samuel Hamburger * 14.10.1859 in Hammelburg

Simon Hamburger  * 16.12.1857 in Hammelburg

 

 

 

 

The Jewish Cemetery of Pfaffenhausen

The following graves of the Hamburger family survived the pogrom in November 1938:

 

Babette Hamburger nee Hanauer (1825 - 1879)  -  Reihe 33, Nr. 33

Emanuel Hamburger (1813 - 1896)  -  Reihe 33, Nr. 33

 

 

 

 

David Hamburger (1807 - 1892) -  Reihe 35, Nr. 17

Fanny Hamburger nee Kohn (1821 - 1895) -  Reihe 35, Nr. 17

 

Meier Hamburger (1855 - 1921) - Reihe 39, Nr. 30

Fanny Hamburger nee Frankenthaler (1862 -1924)  -  Reihe 39, Nr. 29

Alfred Hamburger (1851 - 1923)  -  Reihe 39, Nr. 10

 

 

Quellennachweis:

 

Stadtarchiv Hammelburg

 

Karl Stöckner

Fundmaterialien von einstmaligen jüdischen Bürgern Hammelburgs, Hammelburg 2000

Dokumentation zum Jüdischen Friedhof Pfaffenhausen, Hammelburg 1992/1993

 

Cornelia Binder und Michael Mence

Nachbarn der Vergangenheit, Hammelburg 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 
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