Gochsheimer Hans – Gedenkbuch

Gochsheimer, Hans

Geburtsdatum:: 25.10.1894
Geburtsort:: Hamburg

Beruf:: Buchhalter, Kaufmann

Wohnorte:: Corneliusstraße 110, Karlstraße 95

Todesdatum:: 16.02.1942
Todesort:: Ghetto Litzmannstadt/ Łódź

Am 25. Oktober 1894 wurde Hans Gochsheimer in Hamburg geboren. Er hatte einen älteren Bruder, Erwin Gochsheimer, der am 13. Februar 1893 in Hamburg zur Welt gekommen war. Ihre Eltern waren der Kaufmann Adolf Gochsheimer und dessen erste Frau Jenny Julie Lorch (1870 Frankfurt – 1897 Hamburg). Hans Gochsheimer scheint auch einige Zeit in der Wohnung seines Bruders in der Rothenbaumchaussee 30 in Hamburg gemeldet gewesen zu sein.

Hans Gochsheimer zog am 2. Dezember 1937 in Düsseldorf in die Corneliusstraße 110. Am 5. April 1939 zog er dann um in die Adersstraße 8. Sein letzter Umzug in Düsseldorf erfolgte am 4. August 1939. Bis zu seiner Deportation wohnte Hans Gochsheimer dann zur Untermiete in der Karlstraße 95 bei der Familie Toller. Als Berufsangabe findet sich in den Quellen sowohl „Buchhalter“ als auch „Kaufmann“. In den Meldebüchern wurde er als „ledig“ eingetragen.

Hans Gochsheimer wurde am 27. Oktober 1941 von Düsseldorf in das Ghetto von Litzmannstadt/Łódź deportiert. Über das „Düsseldorfer Kollektiv“ erhielt er die Evidenznummer 0170 sowie eine Brotkarte mit der Nummer 168280. Im Ghetto lebte er bei seinem Bruder Erwin Gochsheimer und dessen Frau Gerda (1902-1942) in der Blattbinderstraße 5, zunächst in der Wohnung 1, später auch in der Wohnung 8 . Die beiden waren am 25. Oktober 1941 aus Hamburg kommend in das Ghetto deportiert worden.

Hans Gochsheimer verstarb am 16. Februar 1942 im Ghetto von Litzmannstadt/Łódź. Als Todesursache wurde „Herzschwäche“ angegeben.

Autorin: Hildegard Jakobs, Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf

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Introduction

Presented by the City of Düsseldorf, this digital memorial book commemorates the Jews who were murdered during the Nazi. The City’s Memorial and Education Centre has been researching victims’ life stories since its foundation in 1987, collecting biographical data, documents, letters and photographs. Using databases whose origins can be traced back to the 1990s, together with the collated information to be found in the archival collection, almost 3,000 individuals have been identified who were persecuted and murdered because they were Jews, or “non-Aryan” Christians.

Biographical research into the above necessitated searches – of both national and international archives – for a variety of documents such as register office certificates, registration indexes, address books and exit papers. Perpetrator resources, too, were searched, for example Gestapo files, files relating to communal matters, and tax and administrative district files. Numerous interviews with survivors and members of victims‘ families provided insights into family life, routine and otherwise, as well as of the personality of the deceased.

The cohort of those who were murdered is heterogeneous. Old and young, men and women, the young and the elderly, people from modest backgrounds or those who had built a secure living for themselves; people who, after 1933, had fled to the European continent but who were then “reeled in” by the German occupation; people whose death or murder came about in a variety of circumstances. Some died of starvation, disease or forced labour in the ghettos and concentration camps to which they had been deported, others were murdered in extermination camps. And there were also those who, out of despair, committed suicide or were murdered before the outbreak of war whilst still at home, for example during the 1938 November Pogrom and in other violent events.

The relationship to Judaism of many of those who died was very individual. The breadth and depth of the spectrum was such that they ranged from the deeply pious and orthodox to those of a more liberal or conservative persuasion and, at the other end of the scale, to atheists. All were persecuted as “Jews” by reason of their ancestry, whether they were baptised Christians, having previously been Jews, or had become Jews only in the course of Nazi “investigations”, despite never having had a Jewish identity. Nazi ideology decreed that the decisive factor was not individual identity but “ancestry”, “blood relationship” and “racial hygiene”. Despite all their differences, what all these people had in common was that they came from Düsseldorf, had been born there or had lived there for many years.

Scientific research can access genealogical connections by availing itself of the online compilation of names, dates and biographies; but in addition, by creating connections with their own personal research, survivors and their descendants the world over can also search for their murdered families.

The work on an online memorial book is never done. The intention is to add more dates and names. Of course the Düsseldorf Memorial and Education Centre is grateful for any leads, additions and corrections which contribute to the overall picture.

Düsseldorf, May 2022

Hildegard Jakobs
Academic Project Leader
and Deputy Director

Dr. Bastian Fleermann
Director