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 eleven children, one of whom died in infancy. Of the remaining ten, almost all experienced persecution by the Nazi regime as young adults. One daughter married in Switzerland, three of the children were murdered in concentration camps, and five emigrated to Argentina, the USA, and Chile.
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 |
She was a cook and moved to Nuremberg in 1917. By 1939, she was living at Possartstrasse 6 in Munich. She emigrated to the USA and lived with her husband Sigmund in Manhattan, New York. |
| 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 |
Her first marriage was to Noah Holtz from Lucerne, which she married in 1928. |
| Hugo *26.05.1902 Gunzenhausen |
The young businessman died on April 27, 1923, after falling from the attic. |
| Frieda *05.07.1904 Gunzenhausen |
Married the merchant Julius Graf (*April 28, 1897) in Munich on November 29, 1926. The couple emigrated to the USA. They lived in Manhattan, New York City, until Julius's death. Frieda moved to Baltimore, Maryland, with her second husband Fred Baer. |
| Else *07.01.1906 Gunzenhausen |
She was married to a Mr. Sternschein from Laupheim, who had been imprisoned in the Oranienburg concentration camp, among other places. He emigrated to the USA in 1939. Else Sternschein and daughter Ruth (*January 13, 1937 in Laupheim) followed him in 1940 via Spain and landed in the port of New York on December 31, 1940. |
| Paul *20.03.1909 Gunzenhausen |
Paul emigrated to the USA in 1935 via Lucerne, Switzerland, and lived in New York with his wife, Betty Karpf, from Würzburg. They had two children: Kenneth Allen (*1948) (Ken) Judith Fanny (*1942) Betty's mother, Mathilda Karpf, lived with them. Paul served in the U. S. Army during WWll, and successfully founded a manufacturing company in New York. He died in 1964. His son, Ken, became a lawyer and lived with his family in Fairfax and Arlington, Virginia. He has two sons with his first wife: Jared and Matthew. Today he lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. |
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 son of Paul Hellman and came along with his son Jared Hellman.
On this photo they are in front of the Hellmann tree on the memorial site in Gunzenhausen.
Here you can find the family history of Herrmann and son Richard Hellman: