The ancestors of the Mosbacher Family from Kassel
A. The father’s side (the Mosbacher and the Gotthelft Families)
The Gotthelft family came from Beverungen in the Lippe-Detmold-Region at the end of the 18th century to Kassel. In 1841 Adolf and Carl Gotthelf founded a printer’s and in December 1853 they published a newspaper “Gewerbliches Tageblatt und Anzeiger”, later (from 1873 till 1932) “Casseler Tageblatt”.
The Mosbacher family lived in Marktbreit, they were orthodox and had a wine merchant’s.
Elias Mosbacher, who died 01.01.1886 in Marktbreit belongs to the ancestors. The
first one we know is Bernhard Mosbacher, who married Clara Gotthelft.
First Generation:
1. Adolf Gotthelft, born 1828, he married Fani. He died 19.09.1901 in the age of 73 in
Kassel. Adolf and Fani Gotthelft had two daughters:
+ 4. Clara Gotthelft, born 04.02.1859 in Kassel
+ 5. Paula Gotthelft, born 21.05.1867 in Kassel
2. Carl Gotthelft, he had a son:
+ 6. Richard Gottheft, born 21.07.1857 in Kassel
Second Generation:
3. Thedor Gotthelft, born 1850, he died 1916 in Kassel. He lived in Sophienstrasse in
Kassel, where he built a villa with three floors in 1894.
He had a daughter:
+ 9. Frieda Henriette Gotthelft, born 15.05.1889 in Kassel
4. Clara Gotthelft, born 04.02.1859, daughter of Adolf Gotthelft and his wife Fanny, nee
Rosenstein. She was married to Bernhard Mosbacher from Marktbreit,
born 19.11.1851 in Burgreppach, son of Elias Mosbacher and his wife
Hanna, nee. Kuerziger. Bernhard and Clara Mosbacher had three
children:
+ 10. Lotte / Charlotte Mosbacher, born 22.05.1879 in Kassel
+ 11. Hans Bernhard (Julius) Mosbacher, born 25.04.1882 in Kassel
+ 12. Fritz Theodor Mosbacher, born 01.10.1883 in Kassel
Bernhard Mosbacher died in Kassel. Clara Mosbacher was deported from
Kassel to Theresienstadt on 07.09.1942 and from there to Treblinka on
29.09.1942.
5. Paula Gotthelft, born 21.05.1867, she was married to Wertheim. She lived in Kassel and
was arrested in Breitenau vom 18.08.–24.08.1942. She was deported from
Kassel to Theresienstadt on 07.09.1942 where she perished 01.03.1943.
6. Richard Gotthelft, born 21.07.1857. He married Selma Alsberg, born 19.02.1865.
Richard and Selma Gotthelft had a daughter:
+ 13 Julie Therese Gotthelft, born 09.09.1895 in Kassel.
Richard Gotthelft died in 1933.
7. Henriette Gottheft, born 28.09.1872 in Kassel. She was married to Blumenthal and lived
in Leipzig. She was deported from Leipzig to Theresienstadt on
20.09.1942, where she perished on 05.03.1943.
8. Helene Gotthelft, born 21.06.1885 in Kassel. She was married to Klarbach and lived in
Essen. She was deported from Duesseldorf to Minsk on 10.11.1941.
9. Frieda Gotthelft, daughter of Theodor Gotthelft. She visited the Malwida von Meysenbug
School (today: Heinrich-Schuetz-Schule) in Kassel from 1906-1910 and
studied at the universities of Freiburg, Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg.
She was married to Karl-Heinz Sichel, an architect in Kassel.
Karl-Heinz and Frieda Sichel had two children:
+ 14. Anna Sichel
15. NN Sichel (boy)
The family emigrated in 1935 to South Africa. Frieda Sichel died in
1976.
10. Lotte / Charlotte Mosbacher, born 22.05.1879. She was married first on 29.06.1900 to
Ludwig Hallo, born 14.03.1864 in Kassel, son of Louis
Hallo and his wife Henriette, nee Simon. Ludwig and
Charlotte Hallo lived in Dresden and had a daughter:
+ 16. Gertrud Hallo, born 05.05.1901 in Dresden
The marriage was dissolved in 1909. Ludwig Hallo died
on 10.10.1929 in Dresden.
Charlotte Hallo was married a second time to Dr. Walter
Breiding. She became a protestant. Walter and Charlotte
Breiding had three children:
+ 17. Werner Joachim Breiding, born 27.10.1915
in Kassel
+ 18. Hans-Helmut Breiding, born 04.12.1917
in Goettingen
+ 19. Renate Breiding, born 18.06.1919 in Kassel
At the end of the 20th or the beginning of the 30th Walter
Breiding got divorced from Charlotte. Charlotte Breiding
lived in Querallee 21 in Kassel. On
19.10.1940 she was captivated by the Gestapo Kassel and
from 22.10. – 01.11.1940 she was taken into custody in
the Arbeitserziehungslager (concentration camp)
Breitenau (Guxhagen). After war she was taken to
Palestine. She died in 1972 in the age of 92.
11. Hans Mosbacher, born 25.04.1882 in Kassel. He and his brother Fritz Mosbacher had a
wool-laundry. Hans Mosbacher married in 1908 first, Dorothy Hirsch,
a jewish woman from
Great Britain, who came with him to Germany in 1907. They lived in
Kassel, Koelnische Strasse 92. They had two children:
+ 20. Ernst Mosbacher, born 31.05.1909 in Kassel
+ 21. Martha Mosbacher, born 29.07.1918 in Kassel
Hans Mosbacher got divorced from his first wife in 1927 and married
Aenne Rosenberg, born 1900 in Eschwege, daughter of Moritz
Rosenberg and his wife Rosa, nee Sachs.
(About the Rosenberg family look in to part B “The mother’s side, the Rosenberg
family and into www.judeninnordhessen.de.vu Genealogien juedischer Familien,
Rosenberg aus Niedermeiser.)
Hans and Aenne Rosenberg had a son:
+ 22. Hans Bernhard Mosbacher, born 31.10.1929 in Kassel.
The family lived in Koelnische Allee in Kassel later in the Gotthelft’s
villa in Sophienstrasse. They left Germany for Palestine in 1937.
They arrived in Haifa on 02.08.1937. Aenne Hanna Mosbacher died
03.03.1955 in Haifa, where she is buried. Hans Mosbacher died in
1973 in Haifa. He was burried in Kibbuz Hasorea.
12. Fritz Mosbacher, born 01.10.1883 in Kassel. He married 04.02.1910 in Kassel Jeanette
Anna Scheyer, born 11.02.1888 in Kassel, daughter of Moritz Scheyer
and his wife Emilie, nee Goldschmidt. Fritz Theodor und Jeanette Anna
Mosbacher had a son:
22a. Franz Mosbacher, born 09.07.1911 in Kassel
They emigrated to South-America.
13. Julie Therese / Dela E. Gotthelft, born 09.09.1895 in Kassel. She was a concert-
singer. In 1933 she emigrated to Palestine and became
member of the PBC-Radiochorus from 1939 – 1943.
Fourth Generation :
14. Anna Sichel, she visited the Malwida von Meysenburg School (today: Heinrich Schuetz-
Schule) from 1930 till September 1935. She emigrated with her parents and
her brother to South Africa in 1935. She married a Lederman.
16. Getrud Hallo, born 05.05.1901 in Dresden, she was married to Franz Wallach, born
02.04.1898 in Kassel. They had a son:
23. Heinz Peter Wallach, born 25.12.1924 in Kassel.
The family emigrated to Palestine in 1937. They lived in Haifa.
17. Werner Breiding, born 27.10.1915. He became an officer and took part in WW II. When
he visited her mother in Breitenau and conplained about the treatment,
he was accused by a military court (Feldgericht) and executed.
18. Hans-Helmut Breiding, born 04.12.1917 in Goettingen. In 1937 he emigrated to
Johannesburg / South-Africa. There he spied for the British
intelligence service and the German secret service. Back to
Germany he was captivated and deported into the concentration
camp of Dachau. He survived sick (Tbc) because they made
medical experiments on him in Dachau. He married and had two
sons. He died ca. 1951 in Munich.
19. Renate Breiding, born 18.06.1919 in Kassel. She lived in Querallee 21 in Kassel. From
June to Oktober 1943 she was arrested by the Gestapo in Kassel and
then deported to the concentration camp of Ravensbrueck
(Schutzhäftling Nr. 28140, Block 30), where she was liberated by the
Alliies on 05.05.1945. First she lived in Braunlage. Then she came back
to Kassel and went to Frankfurt. She was married to a Roemer. She
died in 1952 in Frankfurt.
20. Ernst / Eliyahu Mosbacher, he emigrated with his wife to Palestine after 1933. He
became a liberal rabbi and was a member of the Kibbutz
Hazorea.
21. Martha / Miriam Mosbacher, she left Germany for Great Britain, where her mother
lived. In 1938 she emigrated to Palestine and lives in
Haifa. She died 14.01.1977 in Haifa, where she is buried.
22. Hans Bernhard Mosbacher / Benyamin Maoz, born 31.10.1929 in Kassel.
He emigrated with his parents to Palestine in 1937.
In 1952 he studied in Amsterdam, where he learned to
his wife Elly Erna Drukker. In 1959 they went back to
Israel. They have three children:
23. Michal Maoz
24. Ofra Maoz
25. Hagar Maoz
Since 1979 he is head of the Psychiatric Department of the
Soroka Medical Center in Beer-Sheva and since 1978
professor of psychiatry at the Ben Gurion University of
Beer-Sheva. In 1994 he was at the university of Kassel for
the Franz-Rosenzweig-Gastprofessur.
B. The mother’s side (the Rosenberg Family from Niedermeiser)
The Rosenberg Family had lived in Niedermeiser, a small village near Kassel, since the middle of the 18th century. Abraham Ben Seligmann, born before 1730 in Niederurff, a small village near Fritzlar, lived in Liebenau, near Niedermeiser, first, then he went to Niedermeiser, where in 1758 his son Simon Seligmann was born.
The history of the jewish families in Niedermeiser in written by Mrs. Brigitte Beck:
Die Geschichte der juedischen Bevoelkerung von Niedermeiser. In: Das achte Licht. Beiträge zur Kultur-und Sozialgeschichte der Juden in Nordhessen. Hrsg. von Helmut Burmeister und Michael Dorhs. Hofgeismar 2002. S.20 ff.
A genealogy of the Rosenberg Family is compiled by Shlomo Melchior from Arad/Israel,
in: www.judeninnordhessen.de.vu Genealogien juedischer Familien, Rosenberg aus Niedermeiser.
The following genealogy is an excerpt from Shlomo Melchior’s genealogy showing the descendants of Aenne Rosenberg, who was married to Hans Mosbacher:
First Generation :
1. Seligmann, he married unkonwn. They had a son:
2. Abraham Ben Seligmann, born before 1730 in Niederurff.
Second Generation :
2. Abraham Ben Seligmann (Rosenberg), born before 1730 in Niederurff. He married
unknown. The had a son:
3. Simon Seligmann Rosenberg, born 1758 in
Niedermeiser.
Abraham Ben Seligmann Rosenberg died about
1800 in Niedermeiser.
Third Generation :
3. Simon Seligmann Rosenberg, born 1758 in Niedermeiser, he married first Hindel Daniel.
Simon and Hindel Rosenberg had five children:
4. Chinka (Chanka) Rosenberg, born 1793 in Niedermeiser
she died 14.12.1850 in Niedermeiser.
+ 5. Seligman Rosenberg, born in October 1797 in
Niedermeiser, he died 02.11.1852 in Niedermeiser.
6. Abraham Rosenberg, born 1799 in Niedermeiser, he died
10.05.1846 in Niedermeiser.
7. Joseph Rosenberg, born 1802 in Niedermeiser, he died in
Kassel.
8. Daniel Rosenberg, born 08.07.1805 in Niedermeiser,
he died 20.11.1880 in Niedermeiser.
Hindel Rosenberg died 1805 in Niedermeiser.
Simon Rosenberg married a second time Braunchen
Voremberg, born 1785, daughter of Jesaias Voremberg.
Simon and Braunchen Rosenberg had seven children.
Fourth Generation :
5. Seligmann Rosenberg, born in October 1797 in Niedermeiser, he married
Hannchen Muller, born 11.08.1797. Seligmann and Hannchen
Rosenberg had nine children:
she died 04.03.1883 in Niedermeiser.
she died 12.02.1885 in Niedermeiser.
he died 12.02.1885 in Niedermeiser.
12. Markus Rosenberg, born 19.10.1823 in Niedermeiser,
+ 13. Joseph Rosenberg, born 12.10.1828 in Niedermeiser.
14. Sannchen Rosenberg, born 02.12.1830 in Niedermeiser.
15. Mathias Rosenberg, born 10.02.1833 in Niedermeiser,
he died 24.12.1908 in Niedermeiser.
16. Rica Ricke Rosenberg, born 21.09.1834 in Niedermeiser.
17. Jeremias Rosenberg, born 28.02.1838 in Niedermeiser.
Fifth Generation :
13. Joseph Rosenberg, born 12.10.1828 in Niedermeiser, he married 13.11.1861
Jette Doernberg, born 04.01.1839 in Sielen, daughter of
Susmann and Caroline Doernberg. Joseph and Jette Rosenberg had
three children:
18. Mathilde Rosenberg, born 01.05.1862 in Niedermeiser,
she died 31.10.1865 in Niedermeiser.
19. Selig Rosenberg, born 03.12.1863 in Niedermeiser.
+ 20. Moritz Rosenberg, born 20.02.1866 in Niedermeiser.
Joseph Rosenberg died 10.01.1868 in Niedermeiser in the age of 39.
Jette Rosenberg went with her children to Eschwege, where her family
lived.
Sixth Generation :
20. Moritz Rosenberg, born 20.02.1866 in Niedermeiser, he married Rosa Sachs, born
01.11.1874 in Magdeburg. Moritz and Rosa Rosenberg lived in
Eschwege, he was the owner of a weaving and spinnig mill in
Eschwege. They had two daughters:
+ 21. Liese Rosenberg
+ 22. Aenne Rosenberg, born 1900 in Eschwege.
Moritz and Rosa Rosenberg left Eschwege for Palestine in 1935 and
lived in Rechovot.
Seventh Generation :
21. Liese Rosenberg, born in Eschwege, she was married to Ernst Plaut. They emigrated to
Palestine and lived in Rechovot.
22. Aenne Rosenberg, born 1900 in Eschwege, she was married 1928 to Hans Mosbacher.
(For the further genealogy lookin to part A, No. 11 ff.)
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Archives:
Archiv des Landeswohlfahrtsverbandes Hessen, Bestand 2 [Breitenau] :
Akten von: Charlotte Breiding, Nr.5028
Hermann Balcke, Nr. 7628
Wilhelm Post, Nr. 6712
Stadtarchiv Kassel: Bestand A5.55 Betreuungs- und Entschädigungsakten:
Akten von: Renate Roemer, geb. Breiding
Wilhelm Post
Compiled and edited by Hans-Peter K l e i n Melsungen October 2007
Revised Juli 2008