Adele Hirschmann, portrait photo from around 1910.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII Nr.69)

Adele Hirschmann, portrait photo from around 1930.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII Nr.69)

Theodorstrasse can be seen in the right-hand half of the picture. The houses with the odd numbers (1 to 11) are on the left-hand side of the street. Picture postcard from around 1910.

(Photo Collection Geschichte Für Alle e.V.)

The house at Theodorstrasse 3 is circled in red. Together with Emilienstrasse and Prinzregentenufer, the street is part of a large upper-class residential area built at the beginning of the 20th century on the grounds of the former Klett engineering works. In the bottom left-hand corner of the picture, the Pegnitz River enters the old city. The avenue of plane trees along Prinzregentenufer is also visible. Aerial photo 1927.

(Nuremberg City Archives, A 97 No. 302)

Adele Hirschmann

(1883-1941)

Location of stone: Theodorstrasse 3	District: Wöhrd
Sponsors: Hubert Rottner Defet, Thommy Barth and others	Laying of stone: 22. Mai 2004

Biography

Gunter Demnig laid the first stumbling stones in Nuremberg on 22 May 2004. These included the stumbling stone for Adele Hirschmann (née Lehmann), who was murdered in the Riga-Jungfernhof camp.

Adele Lehmann, born on 13 March 1883 in Bamberg, was the daughter of banker Julius Lehmann and his wife Ernestine (née Rothschild).

It is not known whether she was related to the family from Rimpar in Lower Franconia. Three brothers from this family emigrated to the USA in the middle of the 19th century, where they founded the Lehman Brothers investment bank.

On 12 June 1905 Adele Lehmann married Heinrich Hirschmann, a hop trader. Born on 3 December 1873 in Hüttenbach, he later moved to Nuremberg. On 3 April 1906 Adele’s daughter Irene was born, followed on 14 August 1907 by her daughter Lilly.

Heinrich died on 9 September 1922. Adele was deported to Riga on 29 November 1941 and murdered there.

- Nuremberg City Archives, C 21/X No. 4 registration card.

- Nuremberg City Archives (ed.), Gedenkbuch für die Nürnberger Opfer der Schoa (Quellen zur Geschichte und Kultur der Stadt Nürnberg, Bd. 29), Nuremberg 1998, p. 137.