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Marianne Plaut (née Hoffmann) * 1922

Kielortallee 13 (Eimsbüttel, Eimsbüttel)

HIER WOHNTE
MARIANNE PLAUT
GEB. HOFFMANN
JG. 1922
DEPORTIERT 1943
AUSCHWITZ
ERMORDET

further stumbling stones in Kielortallee 13:
Dr. Joseph Norden, Leonhard Bernhard Plaut

Leonhard Bernhard Plaut, b. 2.2.1917 in Hamburg, on 5.18.1943 deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt, transferred to Auschwitz and then to various forced labor camps, to Kaufering-Camp VI, Türkheim, died after liberation
Marianne Plaut, née Hoffmann, b. 4.10.1922 in Breslau, deported on 2.19.1943 from Berlin to Auschwitz, there murdered

Kielortallee 13

Leonhard Plaut was from Hamburg but was not deported from there; he was deported from Berlin where he had moved in January 1941.

His parents were Isidor Plaut (b. 11.20.1873 in Frankfurt-am-Main) and Amalie, née Levie (b. 11.10.1878). According to the directory, the merchant Isidor Plaut lived in 1918 at Blücherstrasse 27, today Kottwitzstrasse. Leonhard had a sister, Rosi Lilli, who was four years older. His mother died in 1929, when he was twelve. His father left Hamburg in 1933. He had last lived at Grindelallee 35. A sister of the father, Minna Selig, née Plaut, lived in London.

Leonhard Plaut ran a home for children. He initially lived at Hansastrasse 6 (at Meyer’s), then at Kielortallee 13. The building there belonged to the Congregation and housed the East European Jewish association "Adas Jeschorim”; after the deportation of Polish Jews in 1938, the building awaited a new function. Female students were temporarily quartered there and then, by 1941 at the latest, the children’s home, "Beth Noar" was established on the ground floor. It could be that Leonhard Plaut was present there to take care of the children.

Leonhard was married to Marianne, née Hoffmann, who came from Breslau. We do not know her father’s first name. Her mother was named Helene Hoffmann, née Böhm, and was born in Oppeln on 12.2.1895. Together they were deported from Berlin to Auschwitz on 19 February 1943. Leonhard and Marianne Plaut had probably married in 1940. Whether Marianne ever lived in Hamburg is unclear.

Presumably, Leonhard Plaut moved to Berlin in 1941. The couple lived for a short time in the Auerbach Orphanage at Schönhauser Allee 162. From there Leonhard moved to Bayreuther Strasse 37 (at Heymann’s), while Marianne Plaut lived together with her mother at Landsberger Strasse 17 (at Philipp Kahn’s). Probably, the marriage had failed. Mother and daughter had to do forced labor. Marianne Plaut worked at Siemens & Halske in the Jungfernheide district. Her mother worked at AEG Schöneweide.Before her deportation, Marianne Plaut had probably also lived at Lessingstrasse 5 with Alexander Bukofzer, who was also deported from Berlin. On 19 February 1943, mother and daughter were deported from Berlin to Auschwitz and then murdered.

We do not know whether Leonhard Plaut worked again as director of a children‘s home. He was, however, not deported to Theresienstadt until 18 May 1943. This "late" date of deportation and the Theresienstadt destination permits the assumption that he worked for the Reich Association [of Jews in Germany], although no evidence confirming this has been found. On 1 October 1944, he was deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz, there consigned to forced labor, and 10 days later transported to the Dachau satellite Kauferinger Camp VI, Türkheim, which existed only since October 1944. In underground bunkers armaments were manufactured while many prisoners died as a result of maltreatment. It is probable that Leonhard Plaut survived until the liberation of the camp on 29 April 1945, but he died a little while afterwards.

Leonhard’s father, Isidor Plaut, was deported to Theresienstadt on 7 August 1942, where he died on 2.17.1944. Concerning his sister, the Internet yields a faint trace. Thus, Rosi Plaut married Sandor Maibaum in the USA and they had two sons.

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

Stand: February 2018
© Susanne Lohmeyer

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; 8; Auskunft Bundesarchiv 21.3.2012; Auskunft KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau vom 27.3.2012; de.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunther_Plaut; ITS-Archives; Verstörte Kindheiten, S. 137, 139; http://www.jinh.site50.net/gene/chris/Decendants_of_Joseph_Plaut_from_Vacha.PDF; Zugriff am 20.4.2012.
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