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Leo Röttgen

Leo Röttgen was the father of Auguste van Pels-Röttgen.

Person

  • Leo Röttgen
  • Born on: Nov. 6, 1865
  • Born in: Wattenscheid, Duitsland
  • Died on: March 26, 1943
  • Died in: Sobibor

Leo Röttgen was the father of Auguste van Pels-Röttgen.[1] He had married Rosa Rosenau in 1896 in Hackenburg and at that time lived in Buer, a small town near Recklinghausen and Gelsenkirchen. Here the four daughters were born: Gertrude (1889), Else (1897), Margarete (1899) and Auguste (1900). Around 1906 the family moved to Essen, where Leo had a business in ready-to-wear garments and tailoring. He owned a shop in the city centre on Limbeckerstrasse. In 1908, the youngest daughter Lotte was born there. Between 1914 and 1919 the family moved to Elberfeld, a suburb of Wuppertal. Around 1939 he moved from Wuppertal to Amsterdam. The Röttgen couple lived with the family of their daughter Auguste van Pels-Röttgen for six months.[2]

Leo Röttgen had at least three grandchildren in Amsterdam: Peter van Pels, and Günter and Doris Goldschmidt, children of his daughters Auguste and Margaretha.[3]

On 2 July 1941, together with Aaron van Pels, he was witness to the marriage of Clara van Pels and Günther Neumann.[4] On 2 September 1942, he was also witness to the marriage of Henny van Pels and Erich Marx together with Günther Neumann.[5]

Source personal data.[6] Addresses: Buer-Recklinghausen; Huyssenallee 2, Essen (ook eigenaar van bedrijfspand op de Limbecker Strasse 14 (1906-1914); Vereinstrasse 14, Wuppertal-Elberfeld (1919-1935); Biesboschstraat 59-I, Penseelstraat 5hs; Biesboschstraat 67-III, Amsterdam.[7]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne refers to him as her father. Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 5 February 1943, in: The Collected Works, [transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. ^ Stadtarchiv Essen, 7 januari 2020; Adressbuch Wuppertal en Elberfeld 1919-1935; SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Woningkaarten, inv. nr. 35: Woningkaart Biesboschstraat 59.
  3. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaarten Auguste en Margaretha Röttgen.
  4. ^ SAA, Burgerlijke Stand (toegang 5009), inv. nr. 6675: register van huwelijksakten 1941, deel 20, 8v, nr. 15.
  5. ^ SAA, Burgerlijke Stand, inv. nr. 6764: register van huwelijksakten 1942, deel 56, 2v, nr. 3.
  6. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiekaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart L. Röttgen.
  7. ^ Toelichting Stadtarchiv Essen, 7 januari 2020; Adressbuch Wuppertal en Elberfeld 1919-1935. Voor adressen in Amsterdam, zie noot 1.