Anna Heinemann

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Anna Heinemann , b. Anna Wertheimer , (born August 5, 1869 in Bielefeld , † November 14, 1938 in Essen ) was a German writer .

Life

The former office building of Salomon Heinemann
Stolperstein Anna Heinemann, b. Wertheimer, date of death: November 14, 1938
Stumbling block Salomon Heinemann

Anna Wertheimer was the fourth of six children of the Jewish silk manufacturer Joseph Wertheimer and his wife Jenny Wertheimer nee. Michaelson. The Wertheimer family came from Peine and had settled in Bielefeld in 1839; Joseph Wertheimer was one of the founders and sponsors of the Kunstverein in Bielefeld.

Anna Wertheimer attended the liberal municipal girls' school in Bielefeld. In March 1893 she got engaged to Salomon Heinemann from Essen , who was then a court assessor in Bielefeld. On March 11, 1894, the couple married in Bielefeld after Salomon Heinemann in Leipzig for Dr. jur. PhD had and the Essen District Court as a lawyer had been admitted. Since his parents had already died, he and his young wife moved into his parents' house at II. Hagenstrasse 25. Anna and Salomon Heinemann lived in this house until at least 1908; From 1912 at the latest in the newly built house at Haumannplatz 1. Salomon Heinemann established himself as a lawyer and notary in Essen.

The marriage remained childless; Anna Heinemann was busy with the children of her relatives - a daughter of her older sister Tony, who as the wife of the doctor Dr. Adolf Blumenfeld, who also lived in Essen, was named after her - and was considered a “fairytale aunt” who could not only tell exciting stories, but also had entire theater plays based on fairytale motifs at children's groups. The texts of these plays have been published; Kurt Levy illustrated the 1932 edition, which also contains sketches and poems by Anna Heinemann.

In several of Anna Heinemann's verses there are premonitions and fears of the future; nevertheless, the already elderly Heinemann couple made no attempt to emigrate during the Nazi era . During the Reichspogromnacht , the Heinemann couple's house was attacked and devastated. The couple's art collection, which was intended for the city of Essen, fell victim to the intruders' vandalism, as did the interior furnishings. Anna and Salomon Heinemann were apparently not in the house that night, discovered the destruction of the Expressionist works of art that the city should have preserved and their home on their return, and then decided to part ways together. Anna Heinemann died on November 14, 1938 in the Huyssenstift hospital as a result of the gas poisoning she had developed; her husband two days later. Apparently rescue attempts could still have been successful, but Anna Heinemann's brother Eduard Wertheimer in Bielefeld, who was the last of her relatives to still live in Germany, refused such attempts in the interests of his sister and brother-in-law. He committed suicide in the same way four years later when he was threatened with deportation.

Anna and Salomon Heinemann were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Essen- Segeroth , where Salomon Heinemann's parents are also buried.

Two stumbling stones in front of the house at Zweigertstrasse 50 in Essen remember Anna and Salomon Heinemann . Salomon Heinemann had run his law firm there. Heinemann was awarded the honorary title of Justizrat in 1913 and represented, among others, the Rheinisch-Westfälische Kohlen-Syndikat (RWKS) and other important companies and institutions in the Ruhr area . In 1933 he had to give up his professional activity. His office building on Zweigertstrasse , erected between 1913 and 1914 and in front of which the stumbling blocks were laid, is an example of reform architecture .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Minninger (ed.): From a stronghold of Reform Judaism. Collection of sources on Bielefeld Jewry in the 19th and 20th centuries. Bielefeld 2006.
    (No. 40: Beloved Christian Personnel of Childhood , pp. 99–100 / No. 41: Premonition (poem), pp. 101–102)
  2. ^ Anna Heinemann (born Wertheimer, 1869–1938) on www.juedischeliteraturwestfalen.de
  3. ↑ Speech by the Lord Mayor to commemorate the “Reichspogromnacht” on November 9, 2014 in the Old Synagogue in Essen
  4. ↑ Short biography of Salomon Heinemann on media.essen.de

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personal data
SURNAME Heinemann, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wertheimer, Anna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1938
Place of death eat