Hermann Goldschmidt was born as the oldest son of married couple Wolf Goldschmidt and his second wife Carolina, née Ring on November 22, 1878. Twins Markus and Sara were children from their father´s first marriage.
Family Goldschmidt moved to Fulda on May 15, 1910. In the registration form the profession cattle trader is noted. Hermann Goldschmidt married Karoline, née Vollweiler from Berwangen in Baden. In the years 1913, 1919 and 1922 their three children Artur, Walter and Ilsewere born in Fulda.
In the course of the Crystal Night Hermann Goldschmidt was taken into so-called preventive custody.
Hermann and Karoline Goldschmidt had to move out of their house in Florengasse to an apartment in Heinrichstraße.
From there Hermann Goldschmidt was deported to Riga at the age of sixty-three on December 8, 1941.
Hermann Goldschmidt is pronounced dead.
Sources: Standesamt Kalbach (Register Office Kalbach), Stadtarchiv Fulda (Municipal Archives Fulda), Gedenkbuch.
Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden
unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft
(Memorial Book. Victims of the Persecution of the Jewish People during the Nazi Terror Regime in Germany 1933 1945)