Rudolph Heinrich Benzihn

Rudolf Benzihn, born on 25 Mar. 1830 in Berlin, had moved to Hamburg in the 1850s, acquiring local civic rights in 1856. Upon starting a family in 1869, he lived at Besenbinderhof 5 in the suburb St. Georg, while running the company with the warehouse at Deichstraße 52 in the Neustadt quarter. A year and a half after Hedwig, Clara Magdalene Dorothea, called Magda, was born, another three years later Edgar Moritz. The children apparently grew up enjoying middle-class prosperity. It is not known which schools they attended.

Rudolf Benzihn’s trading company was successful. As a broker in hides, furs, and leather, he had his stock pit between pillars 7b/8b. Economic success was reflected also in the relocation from Besenbinderhof to the Oben Borgfelde quarter, and subsequently to Hohenfelde in 1892, where the family continued to live at 1 Alsterstraße until the death of the head of the family. Rudolf Benzihn died on 6 Jan. 1897 aged nearly 67 years. http://www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de/en.php?&LANGUAGE=EN&MAIN_ID=7&B...