Location
Oranienstraße 206
District
Kreuzberg
Stone was laid
02 May 1996
Born
09 September 1898 in Raduhn (Westpreußen) / Raduń
Occupation
Arzt
Deportation
on 04 March 1943
to
Auschwitz
Murdered
20 April 1943 in Auschwitz
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Stolperstein für Alfred Hohenstein. Foto: OTFW.
Dr. Alfred Max Hohenstein was born on 9 September 1898 in the West Prussian town of Raduhn (today a district of the Polish rural municipality Dziemiany). He moved to Berlin to study medicine and qualified as a medical practitioner in 1930. In the following years he worked as a doctor in Pankow, Wedding and Neukölln. He was married to Erna Hohenstein, née Lippmann, a native Berliner. In 1934 their only child was born, a son named Dieter.
Following the Nazis’ rise to power, Dr Alfred Max Hohenstein and his family were also threatened by antisemitic persecution on account of their Jewish background. On 9 December 1938 Dr Hohenstein had his health service licence revoked and was henceforth permitted only to work as a “medic” treating Jewish patients. In 1939 he had to give up his practice and apartment in Anzengruber Strasse, Neukölln. He and his family then moved into a “Jew house” at Oranien Strasse 206 in Kreuzberg. The apartment was on the second floor of the street-facing building, where Dr Hohenstein also had his practice. On 4 March 1943 Dr Alfred Max Hohenstein, his wife Erna and their eight-year-old son Dieter were deported to Auschwitz extermination camp, where they were murdered on 20 April 1943.
Following the Nazis’ rise to power, Dr Alfred Max Hohenstein and his family were also threatened by antisemitic persecution on account of their Jewish background. On 9 December 1938 Dr Hohenstein had his health service licence revoked and was henceforth permitted only to work as a “medic” treating Jewish patients. In 1939 he had to give up his practice and apartment in Anzengruber Strasse, Neukölln. He and his family then moved into a “Jew house” at Oranien Strasse 206 in Kreuzberg. The apartment was on the second floor of the street-facing building, where Dr Hohenstein also had his practice. On 4 March 1943 Dr Alfred Max Hohenstein, his wife Erna and their eight-year-old son Dieter were deported to Auschwitz extermination camp, where they were murdered on 20 April 1943.