Else Rauch

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Else Rosa Rauch , b. Meyer (born June 26, 1888 in Lüneburg ; † May 10, 1942 in the Kulmhof extermination camp ) was a German teacher and victim of the National Socialists .

Life

Else Rauch was the eldest daughter of Gustav Meyer and Emma, ​​nee Rose tree. In 1890 the family moved to Hamburg, where the father worked as an electrical goods merchant and enjoyed economic success. He decided to quit the Jewish community and was baptized in 1903, and his family followed suit. They then lived as active Christians in the church. Else Meyer was baptized in 1904 on the occasion of her confirmation . After attending the Lyceum, from 1911 to 1913, she trained at the teachers' seminar in Hamburg-Altona . From 1913 she worked in the Hamburg school service for twenty years. With the Weimar Republic in 1918, the four-year elementary school was established and Else Meyer taught there in all subjects (religion, German, arithmetic, local history, drawing, singing). Until 1933 she taught at the elementary school for boys in Lutterothstrasse in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel . She was married to Gustav Heinrich Phillipp Rauch. The marriage remained childless and was divorced in 1928/1929. At the beginning of the 1930s Else Rauch moved into an apartment in Hamburg-Rotherbaum .

Stolperstein in Grindelallee 152

In 1933 Else Rauch was forced to retire after the introduction of an " Aryan paragraph ". At first, however, she was spared further reprisals and was able to stay in her apartment. Although of a Christian denomination, she was classified as a “ full Jew ” according to the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 and was therefore one of the first deportees . On the eve of October 25, 1941, they were taken to the collection point on Moorweidenstrasse. The following day she was transported in a group of 1000 people from the Hanover train station to the Litzmannstadt ghetto in Poland. On May 10, 1942, she was deported to Kulmhof. She was murdered there the day she arrived. Her younger brother Ludwig Walter (* 1900) was also a victim of the National Socialists; he is missing in Auschwitz . Her siblings Erich (* 1890) and Käthe (* 1904) fled via Italy to Havana in 1935 and survived in this way.

Commemoration

In 2000 the Else-Rauch-Platz in Eimsbüttel was named after her. Not far from the square at Lutterothstraße 78/80 is the building of the former elementary school where Else Rauch taught. It houses a branch of the vocational school for economics Hamburg-Eimsbüttel (BS 26). In front of the school entrance, a stumbling stone and a memorial plaque remember the teacher Else Rauch. At Grindelallee 152, Hamburg-Rotherbaum , there is another stumbling block in front of her former apartment.

literature

  • S. Lekebusch: Meyer, Else Rosa In: Helmut Moll (Ed.): Witnesses for Christ: The German Martyrology of the 20th Century. Schöningh, Paderborn 2006.
  • Arthur Riegel: Else Rauch: the ordeal of a Hamburg teacher. Hamburg 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ S. Lekebusch: Meyer, Else Rosa In: Helmut Moll (Ed.): Witnesses for Christ: The German Martyrology of the 20th Century. Schöningh, Paderborn 2006.
  2. ↑ History of Else-Rauch-Platz ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.else-rauch-platz.de
  3. ↑ Stumbling block Else Rauch
personal data
SURNAME Rauch, Else
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rauch, Else Rosa (full name); Meyer, Else Rosa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1942
Place of death Kulmhof extermination camp