August Goebelhoff

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"August Göbelhoff / men's hats" (in the foreground, bottom right in the picture), above the company Julius Kauffmann & Co .;
Postcard number 681 from F. Astholz jun. , around 1900

August Göbelhoff , also known as Hut Göbelhoff in Hanover , was a men's outfitter well-known beyond Lower Saxony in the 20th century . The company founder of the same name was convicted as one of the main contributors to the arson of the New Synagogue .

history

August Göbelhoff founded his men’s hat, cap and fur shop of the same name in 1900 on Georgstrasse and Goethestrasse, where he could present his goods behind a 50-meter-long shop window.

On May 8, 1905, the hat shop owner , with his full name August Friedrich Göbelhoff , married Frieda (Frieda Betty Maria Schulz; born September 8, 1881 in coastal ; died May 9, 1915 in Hanover), daughter and one of nine children of the coastal region - and innkeeper Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz (1843–1904; owner of full farm number 2 in coastal and half farm number 13 in Plate near Lüchow) and Anna Dorothea Elisabeth Schulz, called Doris, née Schulze (1841-1918). The building at the - then - address Georgstraße 3 was owned by the wholesaler Julius Kauffmann, while according to the Hanover city directory from 1901 on the second floor above the Göbelhoff shop, the company Julius Kaufmann & Co. formerly Simon, May & Co., wholesalers traded. Julius Kauffmann, in turn, was the head of the Jewish community in Hanover.

At the time of National Socialism , August Göbelhoff was not only involved in the persecution of the Jews , but also set fire to the synagogue on Bergstrasse on November 9, 1938 during the so-called “ November pogroms ” together with the Hanoverian businessman Richard Sander . "Among the perpetrators known by name were [... in addition to the] jeweler Sander [... and the] businessman Göbelhoff [...] other Hanoverian business people who belonged to the SS ."

Also in 1938, August Göbelhoff's son opened a second shop on Georgstrasse in Hanover.

Both Göbelhoff shops were destroyed during the air raids on Hanover in World War II.

In October 1948, August Göbelhoff was sentenced to prison for the persecution of the Jews and the arson at the Hanover synagogue, but the verdict was surprisingly mild, although the public prosecutor saw Göbelhoff as one of the main participants in the arson, who "even laid hands on it. got] in the destruction of the synagogue ”.

In the post-war period , the Göbelhoff family rebuilt the company on Georgstrasse in Hanover. As a specialty shop under the brand name “Hut Göbelhoff”, the company developed into a men's outfitter well-known beyond the state of Lower Saxony, which - in addition to the increasingly seldom demanded men's hat - mainly sold underwear, shirts, ties and knitwear.

In 1975, the anniversary year, the company operated three specialty stores in the capital of Lower Saxony and, in the summer months, an additional sales point on the North Sea island of Borkum . An Ulstein picture dated October 12, 1976 as a photo of the technical department store (TEKA) built between Foto Quelle and Karstadt in Georgstraße with a Hut Göbelhoff shop.

The August Göbelhoff company, which was last run as a GmbH , was forced to close down in 1992 "due to high demands from the landlord".

See also

Web links

Commons : August Göbelhoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Göbelhoff - August G. GmbH, Herrenausstatter, "Hut Göbelhoff" , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 223
  2. ↑ a b Anke Quast: After the liberation. Jewish communities in Lower Saxony since 1945. The example of Hanover (= publications of the working group History of Lower Saxony (after 1945) , Vol. 17), also dissertation 1999 at the University of Hanover, Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, Wallstein-Verlag, ISBN 978- 3-89244-447-3 and ISBN 3-89244-447-1 , pp. 327f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ Hans Schulz: Self-Portrait of a Dermatologist Volume 1: 1940–1974 , 2018, Norderstedt: BoD, ISBN 978-3-7460-0125-8 , 69, 75, 77, v. a. P. 91; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ Address book, city and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden, as well as the localities of Döhren-Waldhausen, Limmer and Ricklingen 1901 , section II: Street and house directory , p. 237; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
  5. ^ Peter Schulze : Contributions to the history of the Jews in Hanover (= Hannoversche Studien , Vol. 6), Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung und Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-7752-4956-0 and ISBN 3-7752-4956-7 , P. 205; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ a b 1948 , in: Hannover Chronik , p. 222
  7. ↑ Nina Pasche (text), Jens Binner, Juliane Hummel, Rolf Keller, Silke Petry, Jens-Christian Wagner (ed.): 1938 in Lower Saxony / Hanover / The events in November 1938 , illustrated article on the pogrome1938-niedersachsen.de page , a project by the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation in cooperation with students from Leibniz University Hannover as well as initiatives, memorials and individuals in Lower Saxony [undated], last accessed on July 12, 2020
  8. ^ Hannover city center Georgstr. , Photo on gettyimages.co.uk

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 32.6 ″  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 58.1 ″  E