The Hellmann Family
The Hellmann family is one of the oldest in the city. Hänlein Simon Höllmann, born in 1765, is the first to be mentioned. Since he was born in Gunzenhausen, his parents must have already lived here, but they are unknown to us.
Hänlein Simon and his wife Rösel, née Hesselberger, had five children.
Simon *1799 in Gunzenhausen
Moses *1800 in Gunzenhausen
Hirsch *1804 in Gunzenhausen
Marx *22.02.1807 in Gunzenhausen
Janthoff *25.08.1825 in Gunzenhausen
The two youngest sons obviously stayed in Gunzenhausen, because only they and their children are still mentioned:
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The children of Marx Hellmann *22.02.1807 (butcher and tradesman) and his wive Theres Steiner *20.11.1823 in Steinhard, were all born in Gunzenhausen. |
The children of Janthoff Hellmann *25.08.1823 (baker, livestock an regional products dealer) and his wive Doris (Deborah) Oettinger *02.11.1839 in Roth, were all born in Gunzenhausen. |
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Heinrich *26.09.1849 See Hellmann Heinrich's page! |
Clara *23.05.1861 |
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Abraham *08.09.1852 |
Heinrich *16.01.1863 +26.06.1888 |
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Helena *18.07.1854 |
Albert Abraham *17.11.1864 |
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Hermann *06.06.1857 |
Sophie *31.05.1868 |
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Salomon *31.10.1861 See Hellmann Salomon's page! |
Rosa *31.07.1875 |
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Herrmann *09.08.1876 |
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House ownership: 1849-1876 Kirchenstraße 22 after 1876 in Hensoltstraße |
House ownership: 1860-1869 Kirchenstraße 26 1867 Kirchenstraße 13/15 |
Albert Abraham Hellmann
Albert Abraham Hellmann was born on November 17, 1864 as the son of Janthoff and Doris Hellmann. Of Janthoff's children, only he and his brother Hermann remained in Gunzenhausen, as the three sisters had moved away after their marriage.
Together with Herrmann, he takes over the house at Kirchenstrasse 13/15.
Albert was a tradesman and, as chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, a city councilor in Gunzenhausen from 1919 to 1929. He was married to Fanny Brandeis, born on May 13, 1866 in 96172 Mühlhausen near Bamberg. Her sister Maria married Albert's cousin Salomon. They were the daughters of the merchant Philipp Brandeis and his wife Regina. Philipp Brandeis is mentioned as chairman of the Mühlhausen cultural community in 1876.
Albert Hellmann and his wife Fanny had 10 children, all of whom experienced the persecution of the Third Reich as young adults. Three died in concentration camps, five emigrated to Argentina, Chile, USA and Switzerland.
The children of Albert and Fanny Hellmann:
| Justin *01.07.1894 Gunzenhausen |
Business man, married 23.6.1929 Therese Weinmann *30.09.1890 in Altenmuhr. The couple emigrated to Argentina on 03.05.1938. |
| Reginchen *29.06.1895 Gunzenhausen |
Bookkeeper, married the business man Siegfried Schloss (*10.02.1896) on 16.05.1922 +24.07.1943 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp |
| Selma *15.06.1896 Gunzenhausen |
Cook, moved to Nürnberg in 1917 and was living at Possartstrasse 6, Munich in 1939 |
| Ernst *25.08.1897 Gunzenhausen |
Business man, married Selma Theilheimer (*14.10.1904 Spitalstrasse 9, Gunzenhausen) on 14.06 1938. On 1.12.1938 Ernst, together with many other Jewish men, was taken away to the Dachau concentration camp. On his release the couple emigrated to Valpareiso, Chile |
| Dora *20.08.1898 Gunzenhausen |
Cook, registered her move to Langheim on 10.10.1938. Dora lost without trace in Riga |
| Bertha *13.04.1900 Gunzenhausen |
Moved to Lucerne on her marriage in December 1928. Her husband Noa Holtz had hotel and restaurant there. |
| Hugo *26.05.1902 Gunzenhausen |
Trader +27.04.1923 |
| Frieda *05.07.1904 Gunzenhausen |
Married the business man Julius Graf (born in Munich on 28.04.1897) on 29.11.26. The couple probably lived in Bretten |
| Else *07.01.1906 Gunzenhausen |
Married a certain Mr Sternschein |
| Paul *20.03.1909 Gunzenhausen |
Paul emigrated to the USA via Lucerne/Switzerland in 1935 and lived in New York with his wife Betty Frucht from Vienna. They had two children: Son Abraham Kenneth *1948 (Ken) and daughter Fanny Judy *1942 Betty's mother Mathilda Frucht lived with them. The two grandchildren learned German from this grandmother. Paul ran a lunch box factory in New York (Manhattan). He died in 1964. Son Ken became a lawyer and lived with his family in Fairfax and Arlington, Virginia. He worked as a lawyer at the US Department of Labor. He had two sons with his first wife: Jared and Matthew. Jared visited Gunzenhausen with his father Ken in 2023. |
There were some Hellmann photos in the archive.
These are Ernst and Selma. They lived in Valpareiso/Chile.
Daughter Frieda Baer sent the photo of her father Albert Hellmann from Baltimore in 1988 with the accompanying letter below to Richard Schwager, who kindly made both available to us.
Dear Mr Schwager,
Please forgive me for replying only today to your letter but I was away and only received it some weeks later.
My dear father was a Town Councillor in Gunzenhausen and unfortunately I cannot tell you very much as I was only young then. But I do know that when there were council meetings in the Town Hall, the mayor had him escorted home, for his safety.
I am enclosing the requested photo and also a copy of the speech the mayor made at my dear father's funeral. Mr Schwager, you are only 40 years old and cannot know how terribly the Jews were treated. I myself had several siblings who died in concentration camps.
Yours faithfully
Frieda Baer
In 2023 Ken Hellman visited us for the first time. He is the youngest son of Albert Hellmann and came along with his son Jared.
Here they are in front of the Hellmann family tree on the memorial site.
Here you can find the family history of Herrmann and son Richard Hellman: