Guckenheimer, Gertrude

Gertrude Guckenheimer née Goldschmidt was born on December 12, 1916 to Clemens Goldschmidt (1877-1945) and his wife Anna née Baer (1889-1985).

Her father’s grandfather Moses Herz Hachenburger founded the family wholesale store for wool goods, Herz Hachenburger Sohn, in 1846, the same year that the Grand Duke of Hessen granted him citizenship in Darmstadt and permission to marry Sarah Hachenburger. This business stayed in the family until 1938. When Gertrude was growing up, her family lived two floors above the store at Rheinstrasse 1 in Darmstadt.

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