Steinhardt family papers
Creator(s)
- Rothschild
Biographical History
Hugo Steinhardt was born in 1887, one of six children of David and Rose Steinhardt in Friedberg, Hesse. The family lived in the small Jewish quarter of Friedberg, where his father had been an observant Jew, but once Hugo was grown up he was quite secularised. He had been a student at Giessen University and Berlin. He graduated in 1911 and taught modern languages in Friedberg and Mainz until being called up for active service in the infantry during WWI.
Whilst a teacher at a grammar school in Butzbach between 1921 and 1933, he married Lilly in 1923. They had two daughters- Lore, born in 1924 in Friedberg, and Helga born in 1928 in Butzbach.
Acquisition
family papers
Donated 10.09.2013
Donor: Godden, Jeremy
Scope and Content
Contains mostly documents related to the family's immigration to UK in 1939
System of Arrangement
Chronological
Conditions Governing Access
Open