Walter Meyer
* 1900

Walter Meyer, born on 16 Nov. 1900, deported on 12 Feb. 1943 to Auschwitz

Walter Meyer was born at the turn of the century, on 16 Nov. 1900, in Hamburg. His parents were Gustav Meyer, born on 12 Sept. 1860, and Emma, née Rosenbaum. Both were Jewish.

Walter Meyer married Olga B.; both were Protestant, but she was “Aryan.” Their marriage remained childless.

Walter Meyer was a car salesman, though he had to give up this line of work and eke out a living somehow. In 1939, he joined the Jewish Religious Organization (Jüdischer Religionsverband) by compulsion. It is not possible to determine whether he was not able or not willing to come up with the “head money” of 12 RM (reichsmark) in Community taxes a year. He did not react to the Community’s payment reminder.

On 11 Sept. 1942, the marriage was divorced. On a small transport of 22 Hamburg residents, he was deported via the Berlin assembly camp on Grosse Hamburger Strasse to Auschwitz on 12 Feb. 1943 and murdered there. At the time of his deportation, he already lived in a “Jews’ house” (“Judenhaus”) at Rutschbahn 25a, building no. 3, the Minkel Salomon David Kalker-Stift founded in 1904. The deportation list still designates him as a sales representative, the occupation he had practiced.

Translator: Erwin Fink

Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.