gb-003348-wl2234
type: RecordSet
biographical history: The great-grandfather of the donor, Zacharias Dannemann, was born circa 1849 in Hasenpoth/ Aizpute (Courland, Latvia), died on 2 February 1905 in Stettin-Bredow, where he resided after having also lived in Goldingen (also Courland). He was a shoemaker who qualified under his father-in-law, gaining Zacharias' approval for marriage upon delivering his qualifying masterpiece. The donor's paternal great-grandmother was Hanze Dannemann, née Mallach, born circa 1853 in Goldingen (Courland), died 12 February 1909 in Löwenberg, Lower Silesia, having moved there via Stettin-Bredow and Stettin-Grabow, before living with her daughter Dora Malligson. The donor's paternal grandfather was Richard Dannemann, born 29 June 1887 in Stettin. Genealogical data indicates he died in 1950 in Brazil, but it is thought he died there before World War II ended. Richard served with distinction in World War I as a reserve officer, first in the artillery, then in the aerial reconnaissance, on account of being known to the authorities as a freethinker "religious dissiden") rather than as Jewish. He was also one of the first 100 citizens of the German Empire to hold a civilian hot air balloon navigator's licence. He owned or directed several businesses, including two shoe shops in Cologne on Hohe and Breite Straße. Richard lived in Jena, Thuringia, and in Cologne, and he emigrated with his son, Ulrich (the donor's father), to Brazil in 1935, after spending two years liquidating businesses and assets. He never succeeded in business again in Brazil, on account of not learning the language. It is thought that he also bought land, but sold it (was forced to sell it off?) before it turned out to be part of the newly constructed capital, Brasilia. The donor's paternal grandmother was Katharina Neumann, known as Käthe, born 29 June 1898 in Stettin, died 1933 in Berlin. She studied Greek and philosophy in Berlin and Freiburg, at a time when this was a rarity for women. Her younger sister Ilse Neumann emig…
conditions of access: Open
has or had holder: gb-003348
has or had identifier: 1
has record set type: Collection
identifier: WL2234
record resource extent: 6 boxes
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: This collection includes records and frontline images of Richard Dannemann's service, family life in the interbellum years; of Ulrich's adolescence and intellectual life in the German-Jewish emigré community in Brazil and matters pertaining to his orchestra string career and restitution proceedings after the war.
title: Ulrich Dannemann collection