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Frieda (Friederike) Popper (née Nathan) * 1859

Kielortallee 25 (Eimsbüttel, Eimsbüttel)

HIER WOHNTE
FRIEDA POPPER
GEB. NATHAN
JG. 1859
DEPORTIERT 1943
THERESIENSTADT
ERMORDET 16.3.1943

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Friederike (Frieda) Popper, née Nathan, b. 10.31.1859 in Schleswig, deported to Theresienstadt on 2.24.1943, died there on 3.16.1943

Kielortallee 25

Friederike or Frieda was the first of seven children born to the cigar maker Hermann Nathan (b. 1832 in Schleswig) and his wife Seraphine, née Schöning (b. 1833 in Hamburg). The family had settled in Schleswig in the 18th century. The couple had married in Wandsbek in 1857. The family apparently lived in good circumstances; the father belonged to the executive board of the Jewish Congregation in Schleswig. In 1885, the couple moved with five children to Hamburg; a daughter had previously died; a son moved to Munich.

In the Hansa City, the male members of the family worked in the prosperous tobacco business. The father ran a tobacco factory there since 1886; his son Martin (b. 1863) became independent in the same trade, but apparently not as successfully. Carl (1864–1953) was active as a tobacco broker and emigrated in 1939 to the USA, as did his brother Siegfried (b 1870), who like the eldest brother Jacob (b. 1861) was a businessman. The daughter Friederike married Heinrich Popper (1850–1918), who came from a well-off bourgeois milieu in Vienna. Since 1909, he operated an "advertising agency” and was also a newspaper publisher. The couple lived initially at Gosslerstrasse 17 and moved then to Neumünstersche Strasse 33 in Eppendorf. After Heinrich Popper died, the widow moved to Hegestieg 14. As of 1 February 1927, she was among the first residents of the new Max and Mathilde Bauer Foundation housing development at Kielortallee; at that time, it was intended for better off circles. She lived here in residence no. 10. After her hometown foundation had been "Aryanized," and because of her Jewish descent, she had to move on 9 March 1939 to house no. 4 of the Martin Brunn Foundation in Eppendorf at Frickenstrasse 24, which had been repurposed as a "Jew house.” A short time later, she had to leave this house for another "Jew house” at Grünestrasse 5 in Altona. The structure had been built in the middle of the 19th century as a school, then served as a children’s daycare center; now it took in elderly Jewish people. A day before the great deportation to Theresienstadt, on 15 July 1942, Friederike Popper was brought to the Jewish Old People’s Home at Schäferkampsallee 27–29, which was also now a "Jew house.” But even here she stayed only briefly, for on 15 September she had to move with her last belongings into Beneckestrasse 6, where the administration of the Congregation had been placed. In this "Jew house,” too, older people were collected and lived under the worst conditions. From here, Friederike Popper, on 24 February 1943, was deported to Theresienstadt, where she died on 3.16.1943.

Translator: Richard Levy
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: February 2018
© Angela Schwarz

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; Schriftliche Auskunft von Erich Koch, Schleswig; Archiv Vaterstädtische Stiftung; Miriam Gillis-Carlebach (Hrsg.), Memobuch.
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