The Hesse Family from Haaren



FIRST GENERATION :


1. Isaac and Maria Abraham, they died before 1812, they had a son:


+ 2. Abraham Isaac (Hesse), born 16.12.1756 in Haaren

(Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, Bestand 76a, no, 28, cur. no.34.)



SECOND GENERATION :


2. Abraham Isaac (Hesse), born 16.12.1756 in Haaren. He was merchant and

landlord (Hoeker and Schankwirt). He married Sara, born about 1765/1766.

Abraham and Sara Hesse – he took the second name „Hesse“ in 1812 – had four

or five children, possibly Marianne Hesse is the oldest daughter of Abraham and

Sara Hesse.


+ 3. Marianne Hesse, born about 1797

+ 4. Hannchen Hesse, born 1801

+ 5. Braunette / Berndine Hesse

+ 6. Isaac Hesse, born 24.08.1808 in Haaren.

7. Rosa Hesse, born 1809, she died in 1884.

(Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, Bestand 76a, no. 28, cur. no.34.)


Abraham Hesse died 01.02.1832, Sara Hesse died 02.04.1838 at the age of 74.



THIRD GENERATION :


3. Marianne Hesse, born about 1797, possibly a daughter of Abraham and Sara

Hesse. She was married to Feibel Baruch from Mansbach.

(For the further generations see the genealogy „The descendants of Feibel Baruch“.)


4. Hannchen Hesse, born 1801, she was married in 1826 to Heinemann Eichenwald

from Wuennenberg.


5. Braunette / Berndine Bernhardine Hesse, she was married in 1833 to Samuel

Kohn / Cohn from Wuennenberg. Bernhardine and Samuel Cohn had a son:


+ 7a. Isaak Cohn, born 03.03.1843 in Wuennenberg. (Thiele, a.a.O., p.453)


6. Isaac Hesse, born 24.08.1808 in Haaren. He was the owner of a house on the

main road in Haaren (No. 42). He married on 12.09.1835 Roeschen Abraham

Levi/Rosalie Loew at the age of 27, from Wrexen, born 1808, daughter of

Abraham Levi and his wife Bella/Bellchen. Isaac and Roeschen Hesse had six

children:


+ 8. Marianne (Jenny) Hesse, born 19.01.1836 in Haaren

+ 9. Abraham Hesse, born 05.02.1838 in Haaren

+ 10. Sarah Hesse, born 15.02.1842 in Haaren

11. Levi Hesse, born 30.12.1842 in Haaren, he died 09.06.1843 in Haaren.

12. Louis Hesse, born 14.08.1843 (?) in Haaren

13. Levi Hesse, born 27.09.1844 in Haaren.


In 1846 Isaac Hesse was widowed. Possibly he married a second time and had

two more children:


14. Hermann / Herz Hesse, born 15.07.1847 in Haaren

+ 15. Moses Hesse, born 02.04.1852 in Haaren.



FOURTH GENERATION :


7a. Isaak Cohn, born 03.03.1843 in Wuennenberg, timber trader in Paderborn, he

married on 24.09.1880 Sara Rosenberg, born 16.04.1854 in Niedermeiser,

daughter of Mathias Rosenberg and his wife Beilchen, nee Kash.

(Thiele, a.a.O., p. 453)


8. Marianne (Jenny) Hesse, born 19.01.1836 in Haaren. She was married on

03.06.1870 to Abraham Buchthal. cattle dealer, son of Juda Buchthal. She was

the second wife of Abraham Buchthal, his first wife Bertha, nee Rosenthal died

shortly before. Abraham Buchthal inherited the house no. 210 in the Wewelsburger

Street from his father Juda Buchthal. Jenny and Abraham Buchthal had three

children:


+ 16. Antoinette Buchthal

+ 17. Julius Buchthal, born 01.11.1874 in Haaren

+ 18. Sophie Buchthal. born 30.04.1879 in Haaren.

Jenny Buchthal died in 1901. Abraham Buchthal left Haaren in 1907.

(Jost Wedekin, a.a.O., p.53)


9. Abraham Hesse, born 05.02.1838 in Haaren. He married Bertha/Breine Sommer,

born 23.04.1854 in Baumbach, daughter of Moses Sommer and his wife Sargen,

nee Apt. Abraham Hesse had a textil shop (house no. 42). Abraham and Bertha

Hesse had four children:


+ 19. Moritz Hesse, born 06.02.1885 in Haaren

+ 20. Sophie Hesse, born 18.01.1888 in Haaren

+ 21. Irma Hesse, born 14.03.1890 in Haaren

+ 22. Hedwig Hesse, born 04.09.1898 in Haaren.

Bertha Hesse died on 02.04.1924 at the age of 70 in Haaren, Abraham Hesse died

on 03.06.1924 in Haaren. (Jost Wedekin, a.a.O., p. 61, 64, 188)

15. Moses Hesse, born 21.05.1852 in Haaren. He left Haaren for Paderborn and had

in 1894 a food-shop in Paderborn, Kötterhagen 1. (Jost Wedekin, a.a.O., p.46)




FIFTH GENERATION :


16. Antoinette (Nettchen) Buchthal, she was married in 1902 to her cousin Albert

Buchthal, born 24.12.1876 in Brilon, merchant and wholesaler for mineal oil.

Antoinette and Albert Buchthal lived in Esssen, they had two children:


+ 23. Werner Buchthal, born 06.11.1903 in Essen

+ 24. Margarete Buchthal, born 17.05.1909 in Essen.


Albert Buchthal was forced to sell his shop in 1938 and was arrested (Schutzhaft)

from 10.11.1938 – 19.11.1938. On 21.07.1942 he was deported from Duesseldorf

to Theresienstadt and from there on 21.09.1942 to Treblinka.

(Jost Wedekin, a.a.O., p.53, Hermann Schroeter: Geschichte und Schicksal der Essener Juden, a.a.O.,

p.498, 606. Gedenkbuch des Bundesarchivs, a.a.O.)


17. Julius Buchthal, born 01.11.1874 in Haaren, he moved to Gelsenkirchen and

married Frieda Hochfeld, born 09.06.1881 in Linnich near Juelich. He bought a

house in the Bochumer Street in Gelsenkirchen and opened a book shop and a

textil shop. Julius and Frieda Buchthal had a son:


+ 25. Rudolf Buchthal, born 24.02.1914 in Gelsenkirchen.


Julius and Frieda Buchthal were deported on 31.03.1942 from Gelsenkirchen to

Warschau.

(Jost Wedekin, a.a.O., p. 53, Gedenkbuch des Bundesarchivs, a.a.O.)


18. Sophie Buchthal, born 30.04.1879 in Haaren. She was married to Felix Kahn,

born 03.06.1876 in Oberhausen, cattle dealer. Sophie and Felix Kahn lived in

Essen. They had three children:


+ 26. Franziska Kahn, born 12.04.1904 in Essen

+ 27. Alfred Kahn, born 27.02.1914 in Essen

28. Siegfried Kahn, died.


Sophie and Felix Kahn were deported on 22.04.1942 from Duesseldorf to Izbica.

(Hermann Schroeter:Geschichte und Schicksal der Essener Juden., a.a.O., p.605, Gedenkbuch des

Bundesarchivs, a.a.O.)


19. Moritz Hesse, born 06.02.1885 in Haaren. He moved to Hamburg, worked for

the Alsberg company and became an office manager. He took part in the Word

War I and died in Russia on 20.09.1915. (Jost Wedekin, a.a.O., p. 52, 73, 75, 76)

The Alsberg company wrote an obituary:

Am 20. September erlitt im Osten bei einem Waldgefecht unser Bürochef Herr

Moritz Hesse aus Haaren den Tod fürs Vaterland. Wir beklagen aufrichtig den

schweren Verlust dieses treuen, tadellosen, charaktervollen Mitarbeiters, dem

wir stets ein ehrendes Andenken bewahren werden.

Gebrüder Alsberg, Hamburg.“

(Jost Wedekin, a.a.O., p.70)


His father put a gravestone for his son as a memorial on the jewish cemetery of

Haaren with the inscription:

Zur Erinnerung an unseren geliebten unvergessenen Sohn und Bruder Moritz

Hesse, gef. In Russland am 20. Sept. 1915 im Alter von 30 Jahren.“

(Jost Wedekin, a.a.O., p.73)


20. Sophie Hesse, born 18.01.1888 in Haaren. She lived in Haaren, Herford and

Gelsenkirchen. She was deported on 27.01.1942 from Gelsenkirchen to Riga and

from there on 04.08.1944 to Stutthof. (Gedenkbuch des Bundesarchivs, a.a.O.)


21. Irma Hesse, born 14.03.1890 in Haaren. She was married in 1919 to Leo

Bachenheimer, born 01.01.1890 in Hallenberg, near Brilon. Irma and Leo

Bachenheimer took over the textil shop of Abraham Hesse in the Paderborner

Street. (Jost Wedekin, a.a.O., p. 86) They had a son:


+ 29. Max Bachenheimer, born 22.02.1924 in Haaren.


On 10.11.1938 the shop was plundered and destroyed and Leo Bachenheimer was

captured and arrested in Buchenwald till 12.12.1938. They were forced to sell

their house in December 1940/January 1941, but it was to late to emigrate to

Palestine. Irma, Leo and Max Bachenheimer were deported on 13.12.1941 from

Bielefeld to Riga. Irma Bachenheimer was deported from there to Kowno and

Stutthof.

(Jost Wedekin, a.a.O., p. 146 ff., 152 ff., 175, 186, 188., Gedenkbuch des Bundesarchivs, a.a.O.)


22. Hedwig Hesse, born 04.09.1898 in Haaren. She was married to Georg Jakobs,

born 28.07.1902 in Soegel. They lived in Soegel. Hedwig Jakobs was deported on

31.07.1942 from Bielefeld to Theresienstadt and from there on 23.01.1943 to

Auschwitz. (Jost Wedekin, a.a.O., p. 188., Gedenkbuch des Bundesarchivs, a.a.O.)



SIXTH GENERATION :



23. Werner Buchthal, born 06.11.1903 in Essen. He married on 24.05.1934 in Essen

Hertha Gutmann, born 22.02.1910 in Gelsenkirchen, daughter of Max Gutmann

and his wife Ida, nee Wolf. Werner Buchthal was arrested (Schutzhaft) from

10.11.1938 till 09.12.1938 in Dachau. In March 1939 he emigrated with his wife

into the USA. He died on 28.09.1964 in New York.

(Hermann Schroeter: Geschichte und Schicksal der Essener Juden. a.a.O., p. 498)


24. Margarete Buchthal, born 17.05.1909 in Essen, she was married to Rudolf

Kaiser, born 29.05.1905 in Hannover. Margarete and Rudolf Kaiser were

deported on 10.11.1941 from Duesseldorf to Minsk.

(Hermann Schroeter: Geschichte und Schicksal der Essener Juden. a.a.O., p. 606. Gedenkbuch des

Bundesarchivs. a.a.O.)


25. Rudolf Buchthal, born 25.02.1914 in Gelsenkirchen. He was deported on

27.01.1942 from Gelsenkirchen to Riga and from there to Stutthof.

(Gedenkbuch des Bundesarchivs, a.a.O.)


26. Franziska Kahn, born 12.04.1904 in Essen. She was married to Josef Zucker,

born 26.02.1900 in Essen. Franziska and Josef Zucker had a daughter:


+ 30. Hanna Beate Zucker, born 31.05.1929 in Essen.


Franziska (Francis) and Josef Zucker emigrated in 1939 to England and from

there in 1940 with their daughter into the USA.

(Hermann Schroeter: Geschichte und Schicksal der Essener Juden. a.a.O., 605, 675/676, 778.)


27. Alfred Kahn, born 27.02.1914 in Essen. He was deported on 27.10.1941 from

Duesseldorf to Lodz and from there on 13.05.1942 to Chelmno, where he was

murdered on 14.05.1942.

(Hermann Schroeter: Geschichte und Schicksal der Essener Juden. a.a.O., p.605. Gedenkbuch des

Bundesarchivs. a.a.O.)


29. Max Bachenheimer, born 22.02.1924 in Haaren. From April 1938 till April 1939

he visited the jewish district school in Bad Nauheim, then the agriculture school

in Ahlem near Hannover. Both schools prepared young people for the emigration

to Palestine and into the USA. When the school was closed, Max Bachenheimer

came back to Haaren. He was deported on 13.12.1941 with his parents from

Bielefeld to Riga.

(Jost Wedekin, a.a.O., p. 135/136. Gedenkbuch des Bundesarchivs, a.a.O.)



SEVENTH GENERATION :


30. Hanna Beate Zucker, born 31.05.1929 in Essen. She escaped with a

Kindertransport in 1939 to England and emigrated in 1940 from there with her

parents into the USA. She was married to N.N. Nussbaum.

(Hermann Schroeter: Geschichte und Schicksal der Essener Juden. a.a.O., p.675/676.)






Sources:


Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, Bestand 76a, Nr. 28, lfd. Nr.34.


Gedenkbuch Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933 – 1945. http://w.w.w.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/de


Jost Wedekin: Die Landjuden von Haaren. Eine fast vergessene Minderheit.

Hrsg. Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Haaren. Haaren (Eigenverlag) ² 2008.


Hermann Schroeter: Geschichte und Schicksal der Essener Juden. Gedenkbuch für die jüdischen Mitbürger der Stadt Essen. Hrsg. Von der Stadt Essen. Essen 1980.


blue: Informations from Jost Wedekin, Paderborn from 11.01.2014.




Compiled and edited by Hans-Peter K l e i n Melsungen, December 2013