Levy, Irma

The Levy family can be traced back to Levy Joseph Levy, a businessman, and his wife Fanny née Alexander. Their son Abraham was born in 1837 and later gained citizen status in Hamburg, where he founded A. Levy Metallgeschäft, a metal smelting business located at Ausschläger Elbdeich 74/76 in Hamburg. Abraham married Emma née Freudenthal in 1876, and they had two sons, Ludwig and Joseph.

Ludwig Levy was born on March 10, 1875 in Hamburg. In 1906, Ludwig and his brother Joseph took over the family business, A. Levy Metallgeschäft. In 1907, Ludwig married Ida Winterberger (born October 3, 1883 in Winterberg to the businessman Moses Winterberger and his wife Rickchen). The couple lived at Isestraße 67 and had one son, Hartwig (born April 11, 1908). Hartwig studied law in Germany and immigrated to New York in the 1930s, where he changed his name to Howard.

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