Wolf Albert – Gedenkbuch

Wolf, Albert

Geburtsdatum:: 03.07.1852
Geburtsort:: Kaiserswerth

Beruf:: Viehhändler

Wohnorte:: Am Markt 55

Todesdatum:: 25.02.1942
Todesort:: Venlo

Albert Wolf wurde am 3. Juli 1852 in Kaiserswerth als Sohn der Eheleute David Abraham Wolf und Johanna Elkan geboren. Am 10. Februar 1884 heiratete er in Schierstein, dem Geburtsort seiner Frau, Karoline „Lina“ Kahn. Die 28-Jährige zog nach der Hochzeit zu ihm. Ihre Tochter Martha wurde am 12. Mai 1886 in Kaiserswerth geboren. Albert Wolf arbeitete als Viehhändler und wohnte mit seiner Familie im eigenen Haus Am Markt 55. Er war Ehrenvorsitzender des Krieger-Vereins in Kaiserswerth.

Seine Tochter Martha heiratete den Weilburger Kaufmann Arnold Jessel. Mit ihm bekam sie drei Kinder: Ruth (geboren 1911), Edith (geboren 1913) und den Sohn Leonhard „Leon“ Jessel, der am 15. Juni 1918 in Duisburg zur Welt kam. Die kleine Edith verstarb bei ihnem in Kaiserswerth am 10. Mai 1917. Seine Frau Lina Wolf meldete den Behörden den Tod der Dreijährigen. Edith wurde in Kaiserswerth begraben.

Im Jahr 1927 wurde Albert Wolf vom Kreiskriegerverband das Ehrenkreuz 1. Klasse verliehen. Am 25. Dezember 1931 verstarb in Kaiserswerth seine Ehefrau Lina. Er blieb zunächst in Kaiserswerth wohnen. Nach der Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten wurde ihm, nachdem man sich gewaltsam Zugang zur Wohnung verschafft hatte, viele Einrichtungsgegenstände zertrümmert. 1936 flüchteten Arnold und Martha Jessel nach Angriffen auf ihr Geschäft in Duisburg knapp vier Monate zu ihm nach Kaiserswerth.

1938 entschloss sich Albert Wolf schließlich zur Emigration: Sein Haus Am Markt 55 musste er dafür verkaufen. Am 13. Mai 1939 meldete sich der 87-Jährige nach Den Haag in die Niederlande ab. Dann lebte er bis 1942 in Venlo mit seinen Nichten. Albert Wolf starb am 25. Februar 1942 in Venlo, als das Haus während einer Razzia durchsucht wurde.

Autorin: Hildegard Jakobs, Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf

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Das Israelitische Familienblatt berichtet in der Ausgabe vom 28. April 1927 über die Ehrung von Albert Wolf (Sammlung 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