Biographies
Biographies
Erich Diller was born in Poppenlauer in July 1924 as the only child of the non-Jewish butchers assistant Kasper Diller and his wife Bertha, née Klau. Later presumably at the beginning of the 1930s - the family moved to Garitz (now a suburb of Bad Kissingen) where Erichs aunt Hedy and her family lived in the immediate neighbourhood, ...
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Bertha Dispeker (Dispecker) was born in Bad Kissingen on February 20, 1858 as the daughter of Philip and Mina Freitag, née Sachs.
She married the merchant Simon Dispecker from Fürth and moved to Munich with him in June 1883, where their two children Ernst (*1884) and Lilly (1887-1891) were born. Simon Dispecker died in December 1911. His wid...
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Regina Doctor, née Heilner was born in Bad Kissingen on February 13, 1854 as the third of five children of the butcher Moses Götz/ Georg Heilner and his wife Hanna, née Schiffmann.
The ancestors of the Heilner family came from Sulzdorf near Bad Königshofen and can be traced back to the 17th century there. Because of poverty and depressing...
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Dr. Ella Ruth Dotan, née Bamberger, was a granddaughter of Kissingens Rabbi of many years, Moses Löb Bamberger. She was born in Würzburg on February 14, 1912 as the second of four children of Mendel Hirsch Bamberger and his wife Rachel, née Winter. The family lived in Bad Kissingen in Ludwigstrasse, where her father practiced as a dentist....
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Klara Schloß was born in Laudenbach/ District Bad Mergentheim on June 27, 1868 as the daughter of Mayer David and Sara Schloß, née Ullmann. In 1891, she married the merchant Ludwig Dreifuß in Zell near Würzburg. The couple had two daughters who were born in Lichtenfels/ Oberfranken (Upper Franconia) in 1892 and 1895. In 1898, Klaras husba...
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Amalie (Malchen) Eberhardt, née Rosenberger was born in Bad Kissingen on July 21, 1876 as the second of five children of the cattle dealer Isaak Rosenberger and his wife Hanna, née Löwenthal. Her mother came from a long-established Jewish family of the spa town and had married the cattle dealer who came from Schonungen and had been granted civ...
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Ida Eberhardt, née Rosenberger, was born in Bad Kissingen on August 25, 1878 as the third of five children of the cattle dealer Isaak Rosenberger and his wife Hanna, née Löwenthal. Her mother came from a long-established Jewish family of the spa town and had married the cattle dealer who came from Schonungen and had been granted civil rights b...
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Moritz Eberhardt came from a long-established Jewish family in Maßbach/ Lower Franconia whose roots can be traced back to the 18th century. He was born on January 25, 1880 as the youngest child of Samuel Eberhardt and his wife Fanny, née Schild and had three older siblings. His father was a cattle merchant just like his ancestors had been.
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Samuel Eberhardt was born in Maßbach on January 26, 1870 as the son of the master baker Bernhard Eberhardt and his wife Mina, née Rosenberger. He also became a master baker and grain merchant and played an important role in Maßbach. He was the chairman of the Israelite Cultural Community and member of Maßbachs local council. In 1895, he ma...
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Betty Eckstein, née Frank, worked for several years as a kindergarten teacher at the Israelite children's sanatorium in Salinenstraße and lived in Bad Kissingen during the summer months.
She was born in June 1886 in Hassfurt as the eldest of twelve children of Jacob Frank, who came from Wonfurt/Hassberge, and his wife Regina, née Heilbronne...
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Gisela Eckstein, née Frei was born in Steinach on December 11, 1897 as the daughter of the merchant Bernhard Frei and his wife Rosa, née Löwenberger. The Frei family who came from Eichenhausen near Bad Neustadt had been living in Steinach since the middle of the 18th century at least and had been butchers for generations. Gisela had six sibli...
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Wolf Meier Ehrenreich was born in Bad Kissingen on September 9, 1880 as the son of the teacher Lazarus Ehrenreich and his wife Dina, née Lonnerstädter. His parents had moved to Bad Kissingen in the 1870s. In 1876, Meiers father founded a Curmäßigen und streng religiösen Privatkosttisch (curative and strictly religious private eating...
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Dr. Elfriede Ehrenreich, née Wolkiser was born in Berlin on December 21, 1893. Her parents were the manufacturer Norbert Wolkiser and his wife Malwina, née Maschler. Elfriede Wolkiser studied medicine and became a gynaecologist and pediatrician after her graduation and doctorate. In May 1919, she married Josua Moses Ehrenreich, who later calle...
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Dr. Josua Moses Ehrenreich, who called himself Max since the end of the 1920s, was born in Bad Kissingen on April 30, 1879. His father Elieser Lazarus Ehrenreich was the teacher and cantor of the Jewish Community of Bad Kissingen. Together with his wife Dina, née Lonnerstädter he founded a restaurant which developed into the kosher restaurant a...
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Dr. Norbert Ehrenreich was born in Berlin on May 11, 1920 as the first child of Max Ehrenreich and his wife Elfriede, née Wolkiser. His younger brother Ralf Jon was already born in Bad Kissingen in 1922. Both parents were doctors and practiced in Bad Kissingen in the summer months and in the capital of the Reich in winter. Their surgery was firs...
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Dr. Ralf Jon Ehrenreich was born in Bad Kissingen on January 27, 1922 as the second child of Max Ehrenreich and his wife Elfriede, née Wolkiser. His older brother had been born in Berlin in 1920. Both parents were doctors and practiced in Bad Kissingen in the summer months and in the capital of the Reich in winter. Their surgery was first in Lud...
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Adele Ehrlich, née Leven, was born on February 4, 1886, daughter of Max Leven and his wife Bertha, née Herz, in Unna, Westphalia, and grew up with her four siblings Paula (*1881), Otto (*1882), Moritz (*1884) and Lilly (*1890). Her brother Moritz died as a soldier in the First World War.
In 1921 Adele Leven married Franz Ehrlich who was the ...
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Clara Ehrlich, née Oppenheim was born in Eschwege in 1858 as the daughter of the dyer Isaac Oppenheim and his wife Klara Rosenau.
She married the Kissingen merchant Felix Ehrlich who ran a Manufactur- und Modewarengeschäft (shop for manufacture and fashion) that under his direction quickly developed into the leading fashion house of ...
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Felix Ehrlich was born in Bad Kissingen on April 2, 1919 as the second child of Ludwig and Margarete Ehrlich. His father was the co-owner of the renowned fashion shop in Ludwigstrasse and thus Felix experienced a beautiful and carefree childhood with his siblings and cousins who all lived in the spacious house at the corner of Ludwigstrasse and K...
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Franz Ehrlich came from a long-established Jewish commercial family. His grandfather Samuel Ehrlich had been given the license for cloth trading in 1841 and had later opened a textile shop in Obere Marktstrasse. His son Felix Ehrlich had further expanded the family business and was awarded the title of Royal Bavarian Supplier of the Court. ...
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