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Siegmund Schickler * 1875

Hohe Weide 5 (Eimsbüttel, Eimsbüttel)

1938 KZ Fuhlsbüttel
deportiert 1941
Minsk
ermordet

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Siegmund Schickler, born 6 Nov. 1875 in Altona, deported 18 Nov. 1941 to Minsk Ghetto

Hohe Weide 5

Siegmund Schickler was born on 6 Nov. 1875 in what was at the time Prussian Altona. His parents were Emanuel Schickler and Johanna Schickler, née Ascher. His brother was Adolf Schickler, also born in Altona on 15 Dec. 1878. Siegmund Schickler remained unmarried.

Siegmund Schickler joined Hamburg’s German-Israelite Community on 30 May 1921, evidently having left Altona. When he arrived in Hamburg, he lived for a time at Hohen Weide 5 together with his brother Adolf who was on the road a lot as a travelling salesman and later started his own freight company (Spaldingstraße 84/86). Siegmund Schickler moved from Hohen Weide to Hammerbrook (for a time he reported his place of residence as Harburg) and was living in the "Jewish house” at Bundesstraße 43 when he was collected for deportation to Minsk.

He was employed as a banker. Along with Wilhelm Selli Stern (born in Bremen on 1 Nov. 1876) he ran his own stock brokerage, starting on 3 Dec. 1920 under the company name "Schickler & Stern"; they bought and sold stocks and certificates on behalf of their clients. Initially their offices of the partnership were at Graskeller 16, later at Hohen Bleichen 36. The partnership was temporarily dissolved for a time and then re-established.

Between 1921 and 1931/1932 Siegmund Schickler and Wilhelm Selli Stern generated an income and paid culture tax. That ended in 1931. From then on Siegmund Schickler was dependent on welfare support. Already in 1930 he conducted his banking business from his private address at Hohen Weide 5. In 1935 his business was struck from the trade register.

From 9 to 24 June 1938, Siegmund Schickler was held in "protective custody" at Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp for reasons unknown. He might have been caught in the snare of operations directed against "antisocial elements”, however those individuals were sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, which was not the case with him.

Siegmund Schickler was deported to Minsk on 18 Nov. 1941. All traces of him were lost after that. His brother Adolf Schickler died on 25 Feb. 1941.


Translator: Suzanne von Engelhardt
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: January 2019
© Peter Offenborn

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; 213-8 Staatsanwaltschaft Oberlandesgericht-Verwaltung Abl. 2, 451 a E 1, 1 c; Auszug aus dem HR Hamburg, H.R.Nr. A 24794; HAB; Wolf Gruner, Der Geschlossene Arbeitseinsatz, S. 43; Beate Meyer (Hrsg.), Die Verfolgung, Hamburg 2006, S. 25; Alfred Marcus, Die wirtschaftliche Krise, S. 48; Albert Fischer, Jüdische Privatbanken, S. 14.
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