Birth of Marie Helene Margarethe Batzke (Greta)

Born on this day 20th February 1894, Marie Helene Margarethe Batzke, know as Greta, in Straiipitz. She was not Jewish but Evangelical (Protestant). She became Hermann’s second wife in 1930, she was a professional photographer, his first marriage was a rash and unhappy one to Luba Lowinski in January 1926, they divorced in April 1928, a Jew, and as far as I can work out was from a Zionist background, but I have no other real information. If anyone reading this has any information, photographs etc. to add it would be of great interest in building a more complete picture.

 

 

Photo of Marie Helene Margarethe Batzke (Greta)

1936 prohibited from exhibiting

In January 1936 because of being Jewish Hermann Fechenbach, along with all other Jews, where prohibited from exhibiting in public buildings and excluded from the "Reich Chamber of Fine Arts".

 

 

Hermann Fechenbach painting in 1937.

Remembering Dr. Kahn who died 2nd January 1946

During the so-called "crystal night”, 8th November 1938, a victorious NAZI mob broke into Max Kahn's house, where they cut off the beard of the widely respected Rabbi, Dr. Moses Kahn, harshly maltreated him and threw him down the staircase. Dr. Kahn with his wife emigration to Palestine in August 1939, where he died on the 2nd January 1946 in extremely poor conditions.

January 11, 1897, birth of Hermann and Rosel Fechenbach

On the night of the 11th January 1897 Hermann Fechenbach was born shortly after his twin sister Rosa ("Rosel"), the third child of the Jewish couple M. Max and Sophie Fechenbach, born at Gänsmarkt 8 in Bad Mergentheim, Germany.