The Neugass Family from Bad Homburg v.d.H.
F I R S T G E N E R A T I O N :
1. Simon Raphael Neugass, born 1751, cattledealer, protective Jew. He married in 1786 in Bad
Homburg Sarle/Sara, born 1762. Simon Raphael and Sarle Neugass had seven children:
2. Isaac Neugass, born 1787 in Bad Homburg, he died 1814 in Bad Homburg.
3. Schenla Neugass, born 1788 in Bad Homburg, she was married in 1806.
+ 4. Raphael Neugass, born 1791 in Bad Homburg
+ 5. Bela Neugass, born 1794 in Bad Homburg
6. Simon Neugass, born about 1796 in Bad Homburg, he died 01.06.1814 in Bad Homburg.
(HHStAWi, Bestand 365, no.905, p.98, death-records Bad Homburg 1809-1817, www.lagis-hessen.de)
+ 7. Wolff Neugass, born 1798 in Bad Homburg
8. Rebecca Neugass, born 1801 in Bad Homburg, she was married in 1833.
(All names and dates from HHStAWi, Bestand 365, no. 950, current no. 18, 37, 92, 107. Musterungslisten Bad
Homburg 1720-1840, www.lagis-hessen.de)
Sarle Neugass died on 08.09.1812 at the age of 50 years. (death records a.a.O., p.84) Simon Raphael
Neugass died in 1822.
S E C O N D G E N R A T I O N :
4. Raphael Neugass, born 1791 in Bad Homburg, he married in 1819 Fanny Koppel from Fuerth. Raphael and Fanny Neugass had three chidlren:
+ 9. Koppel Neugass, born 1820 in Bad Homburg
10. Sarle Neugass, born 1822 in Bad Homburg
+ 11. Simon Neugass, born 1825 in Bad Homburg.
Raphael Neugass died on 22.03.1869 in Bad Homburg.
(HHStAWi, Bestand 365, no. 906, death records Bad Homburg 1848-1874, p. 97)
5. Bela Neugass, born 1794 in Bad Homburg, she was married to Daniel Sommer. Bela Sommer died on 12.06.1866 in Bad Hombrg at the age of 72 years. (death records, a.a.O., p.85)
7. Wolff Neugass, born 1798 in Bad Homburg, soapmaker (Seifensieder). He married first in 1826 in Bad Homburg Belge/Breinle Ingelheimer, from Ansbach, daughter of Schalom Ingelheimer, born 1802. Wolff and Belge Neugass had two sons:
12. Simon Neugass, born 1829 in Bad Homburg.
Belge Neugass died on 07.10.1842 in Bad Homburg. She in buried on the Jewish cemetery of Seulberg. (www.lagis-hessen.de Jewish gravesites, Seulberg no.26) Wolff Neugass married a second time
Karoline Holzmann, born about 1814, daughter of Mendel Holzmann(Soapmaker) and his wife Hanna, née Kosel. Wolff and Karoloine Neugass had a son:
+ 13. Emanuel Neugass, born 26.08.1851 in Bad Homburg.
Wolff Neugass died on 22.09.1872 in Bad Homburg at the age of 74 years (deaths records, a.a.O., p.122). Karoline Neugass died on 10.02.1892 in Bad Homburg at the age of 78 years. She lived in Wallstrasse 30. (Standesamt Bad Homburg, death record 23/1892, www.lagis-hessen.de)
T H I R D G E N R A T I O N :
9. Koppel Neugass, born 1820 in Bad Homburg, cattledealer. He lived in Bad Homburg Obergasse 16. He married first Catharina / Jette Sichel, born 24.06.1824 in Mainz. Koppel and Catharina Neugass had three daughters:
14. Julie Neugass, born about 1854, she died on 02.05.1869 in Bad Homburg at the age of 25
years. (death records., a.a.O., p.97)
15. Sara Neugass, born in February 1859 in Bad Homburg, she died on 01.03.1859 at the age
of 15 days. (death records, a.a.O., p.56)
+ 16. Johannette Neugass, born 23.04.1860 in Bad Homburg
(Standesamt Bad Homburg, wedding record 25/1887)
Catharina Neugass died on 20.08.1873 in Bad Homburg. (death records, a.a.O., p. 125) Koppel Neugass married a second time on 15.01.1875 in Bad Homburg Giedchen / Juetchen / Kaethe Stiefel, 29 years old, born about 1845, daughter of N.N. Stiefel and his wife Giedel, née Floersheim. Giedchen Stiefel lived in Frankfurt, Grosse Friedberger Landstrasse 7.
(Standesamt Bad Homburg, wedding record 6/1875) Koppel and Juetchen Neugass had a son:
+ 17. Rudolf Neugass, born 20.09.1876 in Bad Homburg
(Standesamt Bad Homburg, birth record 203/1876)
Koppel Neugass died on 29.04.1896 in Bad Homburg at the age of 75 years. (Standsamt Bad Homburg, death record 69/1896) Kaethe Neugass died on 01.07.1931 in Bad Homburg at the age of 86 years. (Standesamt Bad Homburg, death record 125/1931)
11. Simon Neugass, born 1825 in Bad Homburg, cattledealer, he lived in Bad Homburg, Obergasse 12. He married Trautchen / Deiche Goldschmidt, born about 1818, daughter of Lazar Goldschmidt and his wife Malka, née Koch. Simon and Trautchen Neugass had a son:
+ 18. Karl Neugass, born 30.03.1854 in Bad Homburg
(Standesamt Bad Homburg, wedding record 9/1883)
Deiche / Trautchen Neugass died on 20.09.1887 in Bad Homburg at the age of 69.
(Standesamt Bad Homburg, death record 179/1887)
Simon Neugass died on 29.06.1902 in Bad Homburg at the age of 77 years.
(Standesamt Bad Homburg, death record 85/1902)
13. Emanuel Neugass, born 26.08.1851 in Bad Homburg, industrialist (soap), he lived in Bad Homburg, Wallstrasse 30. He married on 15.10.1879 in Bad Homburg Bella Braunschweig, born 21.01.or 21.06.1860 in bad Homburg, Louisenstrasse 68, daughter of Abraham Braunschweig and his wife Babette, née Gabriel. (Standesamt Bad Homburg, wedding record 43/1879) Emanueland Bella Neugass had three children:
+ 19. Willy Neugass, born 29.10.1880 in Bad Homburg
(Standesamt Bad Homburg, birth record200/1880)
+ 20. Clara Neugass, born 24.07.1882 in Bad Homburg
(Standesamt Bad Homburg, birth record 144/1882)
+ 21. Anna Neugass, born 12.10.1883 in Bad Homburg
(Standesamt Bad Homburg, birth record 179/1883)
F O U R T H G E N E R A T I O N :
16. Johannette Neugass, born 23.04.1860 in Bad Homburg, she was married on 23.06.1887 in Bad Homberg to Moses Moritz Lang, born 01.06.1859 in Bad Homburg, Obergasse 15, son of David Lang and his wife Breinchen, née Sommer. (Standesamt Bad Homburg, wedding record 25/1887)
17. Rudolf Neugass, born 20.09.1976 in Bad Homburg, banker (Bankprokurist). He was a single and lived in Bad Homburg, Obergasse 16. (Srtndesamt Bad Homburg, death record 126/1931)
He was deported from Frankfurt/Main on 01.09.1942 to Theresienstadt and murdered there on 18.11.1942. (Gedenkbuch Bundesarchiv Berlin, Testimony Yad Vashem, written on 10.12.1986 by his cousin Ernest R. Stiefel from Seattle)
18. Karl Neugass, born 30.03.1854 in Bad Homburg, merchant, he lived in Bad Homburg, Obergasse 12, later Louisenstrasse 75. He married on 22.03.1883 in Bad Homburg Ernestine Mohr, born 20. 05.1856 in Gachsheim, living in Wuerzburg, Landgasse 2, daughter of Isaak Mohr and his wife Babette, née Lippmann. (Standesamt Bad Homburg, wedding record 9/1883)
Karl and Ernestine Neugass had three children:
22. Julius Neugass, born 03.02.1884 in Bad Homburg, he died 19.02.1885, one year old.
(Standesamt Bad Homburg, birth record 20/1884, death record 38/1885)
+ 23. Blanche Neugass, born 15.05.1886 in Bad Homburg
(Standesamt Bad Homburg, birth record 83/1886)
+ 24. Gertrude Neugass, born 04.06.1889 in Bad Homburg
(Standesamt Bad Homburg, birth record 81/1889)
Ernestine Neugass died on 08.02.1916 in Bad Homburg, Ludwigstrasse 4 at the age of 59 years.
(Standesamt Bad Homburg, death record 29/1916)
Karl Neugas died on 25.05.1937 in Bad Homburg, Schleussnerstrasse 4 at the age of 82 years.
(Standesamt Bad Homburg, death record 134/1937)
19. Willy Neugass, born 29.10.1880 in Bad Homburg. He took part in WWI (Gefreiter der 1. Kompanie des Reserve-Infanterie-Regiments 87). He died in the battle near Sermaize les Baines by the wounds on 07.09.1915. He was 33 years old and a single.
(Standesamt Bad Homburg, death record 81/1815)
20. Clara Neugass, born 24.07.1882 in Bad Homburg, she was married on 09.12.1904 in Bad Homburg to Heinrich Hoenigsberger, born 12.05.1871 in Floss, Bez. Neustadt a.d. Waldnaab, living in Munich, Schwanthalerstrasse 43, son of Joseph Hoenigsberger and his wife Zerline, née Oppenheimer. (Standesamt Bad Homburg, wedding record 92/1904)
21. Anna Neugass, born 12.10.1883 in Bad Homburg, she was married on 23.05.1902 to Siegfried Meyerhoff, merchant, born 30.07.1873 in Wolfhagen, living in Kassel-Wahlershausen, Kronprinzenstrasse 131 ½ . (Standesamt Bad Homburg, wedding record 31/1902)
F I F T H G E N E R A T I O N :
23. Blanche Neugass, born 15.04.1886 in Bad Homburg, she lived in Bad Homburg and Frankenthal. She was deported on 12.06.1942 from Frankfurt/Main to Sobibor and murdered there. (Gedenkbuch Bundesarchiv Berlin, Testimony Yad Vashem, written on 28.06.2015 by a rerseacher Inge Bihr from Bad Homburg)
24. Gertrude Neugass, born 04.06.1889 in Bad Homburg. She lived in Bad Homburg. She was deported on 11.06.1942 to Sobibor and murdered there. (Gedenkbuch Bundesarchiv Berlin, Testimony Yad Vashem, written on 28.06.2015 by a researcher Inge Bihr from Bad Homburg)
There is one more Neugass in the record, I cannot identify:
– Isaak Neugass, born about 1853, he married in 1881 Lina Linz. Isaak and Lina Neugass lived in
Bad Homburg Ludwigstrasse 14. They had a son:
– Robert Neugass, born 27.07.1882 in Bad Homburg (Standesamt Das Homburg, birth record 80/1882).
Sources:
www.lagis-hessen.de – Hessian birth- wedding- and death records Bad Homburg
– Jewish gravesites
www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/directory.html.de
yvng.yadvashem.org (Central data base of Shoah Victims´ Names)
Compiled by Hans-Peter K l e i n Melsungen, March 2017