Siegfried Schwarzschild
Husband of Josephine Einstein Schwarzschild Stone (P-018). Josephine's sworn United States naturalization records name him, give his Stuttgart birth date, and report their August 1909 Stuttgart marriage. S-025 identifies him as a merchant, former partner until 1930 in a wholesale metals and metallurgical- products business, and later operator of a Koenigstrasse travel bureau. It documents forced business closure by the end of 1938, later operation of the Jewish emigration office travel bureau through April 1941, compulsory wearing of the Jewish star, forced residence in the Tigerfeld Jewish home, deportation to Theresienstadt in August 1942, and transfer to Auschwitz on 16 May 1944. He was missing after that transport. The compensation authority inferred an early death at Auschwitz and fixed 31 May 1944 as the statutory death date; the actual date and place of death remain unknown. A 7 December 1957 Stuttgart inheritance certificate names Josephine as widow and one-half heir. His siblings Heinrich Schwarzschild (born 16 February 1880), Gertrud Metzger née Schwarzschild (born 19 February 1884), and Elsa Ostertag/Oster née Schwarzschild (born 10 June 1887) inherited one-sixth each.
- Record ID
- P-039
- Name variants
- Sem Schwarzschild
- Birth
- March 11, 1877
- Death
- May 31, 1944
- Family lines
- Fellheim–Laupheim Einstein
- Related people
- Josephine Einstein Schwarzschild Stone
- Places
- Stuttgart, Württemberg, San Francisco, California
- Sources
- Auguste Saalfeld obituary, Siegfried Schwarzschild restitution file, Josephine Schwarzschild naturalization file and legal name-change order, Einstein-Levy-Stone household in the 1950 United States census, California death index entry for Josephine Stone, Siegfried Schwarzschild, Klopstockstr. 34A
Evidence-backed claims
Josephine's federal naturalization file carries the same Stuttgart birth date and 1909 Schwarzschild marriage, records her lawful entry under Josephine Einstein Schwarzschild, and contains both her Schwarzschild oath signature and the court order changing her name to Josephine Stone. The 1950 census then places Josephine Stone as sister of Melita Levy and Ludwig Einstein, and the California death index preserves her exact birth date and her mother's maiden name as Schweitzer. These independent records satisfy the identity bridge.
Josephine's sworn declaration and petition independently identify Siegfried Schwarzschild as her husband and report their Stuttgart marriage. The Stuttgart memorial biography independently names the same couple.
Josephine explicitly answered that she had no children in both her sworn 1939 declaration and 1944 naturalization petition, after the end of her childbearing years. The Stuttgart memorial biography independently describes the marriage as childless.
S-025 images 0104-0105 and 0173-0174 record official findings based on ITS Arolsen and Israelite community evidence: compulsory Jewish-star wearing from 19 September 1941, deportation to Theresienstadt on 23 August 1942 (with a separate claimant account giving 22 August), transfer to Auschwitz on 16 May 1944 on transport Ea 1933, and disappearance thereafter. The authority treated the transport as a death transport, inferred death soon after arrival, and fixed 31 May 1944 under section 180(2) BEG. S-072 independently preserves the same broad sequence.
S-025 image 0090 contains the compensation authority's occupational findings. Image 0086 independently reports the Israelite community's recollection that his Koenigstrasse travel bureau operated successfully. Images 0005-0074 are surviving bank ledgers, and counsel's images 0133-0136 connect account 44613 to Siegfried and account 44111 to the Jewish emigration office travel bureau. The authority accepted persecution-related occupational loss but did not accept counsel's requested higher earnings classification.
The signed decisions and payment records in S-025 directly record the awards. Images 0089-0091 award DM 4,784 for 65 months of occupational loss from 1 January 1939 through the statutory death date. Images 0103-0105 award DM 4,800 for 32 full months of Jewish-star restriction and imprisonment from 19 September 1941 through 31 May 1944. Images 0172-0176 award a DM 14,760 capital payment, DM 12,031 pension arrears, and DM 207 monthly from October 1958. Later images document periodic statutory recalculations and closure after Josephine's 13 July 1980 death.