Hirsch, Albert, 1888-

Albert Hirsch was born on August 9th, 1888, in Frankfurt am Main. After his Abitur in 1908, Hirsch went to the University of Munich. In 1912, he left the University with a PhD in literature. After World War I, Hirsch passed the examination for higher teaching (French, German and Latin). From 1919 to 1933 he was a teacher at the Woehler Realgymnasium in Frankfurt. He had to give up this post in 1933 due to the Nazi regime’s new laws on Jewish civil servants.

In 1925, Albert Hirsch married Lilly Hock with whom he had two children. Their daughter Hanna was born in 1926 and their son Rudolph was born two years later. Since 1934, Hirsch was a teacher at the Philanthropin School in Frankfurt (see below) and from April 1st, 1937, to August, 1939, Hirsch was its director. After the pogroms in November 1938, Hirsch, just like all other male faculty and pupils aged 16 or older were interned in Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Here, his health suffered severely, thus he had to spend some time in a hospital.

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