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latest: David Levy [*1875]
Father of
Husband of Betty Heinemann, nee Sußmann (Herz) [*1792]
Brother of Alexander Heinemann [*1782]
Salt factory (1852-1859), run by Simon Salomon, Marcus Heinemann and others
Vor dem Bardowicker Tore 1
Lüneburg
Brothers Heinemann: Textile business (from 1815);
Simon Heinemann Company: Bank, Woollen goods, Manufactured Goods (1821-1901);
Lueneburg branch of Hannoversche Bank, formerly Simon Heinemann (1901-1920);
Deutsche Bank (since 1920)
Simon Heinemann family (1815-1855)
Sally Heinemann family (1855-1901)
Marcus Heinemann family (1856-1862)
Simon Heinemann was born in 1781 in Bleckede, a small town on the Elbe near Lüneburg, which had a relatively large Jewish community at the time. He was the oldest of seven siblings. His father Salomon Heinemann had come to the North from Reckendorf in Franconia in the 1770s and had settled as a "Schutzjude" in Bleckede, together with his wife Rosa, née Salomon.
Around 1810 Simon Heinemann and his brother Alexander moved to Lüneburg, where in 1814 they received a concession for a jointly run company. As early as 1819, however, Alexander emigrated to the USA, and Simon Heinemann built up the Lüneburg banking business on his own. He was granted the status of "Schutzjude" in Lüneburg. In 1815 or 1816 he was married to Betty Sußmann, who, like him, came from Bleckede. In the following years, Betty and Simon had five children: Rosa, Sally, Marcus, Salomon and Mathilde.
From 1825, the company had its headquarters at Bardowicker Strasse 6 - the address book said "Geldwechsel und Ellenwaren" (money exchange and textiles) - and the growing family also lived here. "They lived in modest rooms, the upstairs was rented out," Simon"s and Betty"s granddaughter Emilie Heinemann later wrote. The two daughters married and left town, while the three sons joined their father"s business.
In 1840, Simon Heinemann applied to the regional authorities for a concession "to trade in manufactured goods exclusively of cloth." In 1841 it was granted to him: an important first step towards the professional and legal equality of the Jews.
Then, in March 1843, together with his nephew, merchant Moritz Salomon, and with banker Wolf Hirsch Michaels, he was among the first three Jews in Lüneburg to obtain full citizenship.
More and more thereafter, Simon Heinemann placed the management of the "S. Heinemann" company in the hands of his three sons, Sally, Marcus and Salomon. When Simon died in Lüneburg in 1850, the Heinemanns were one of the wealthiest and most respected Jewish families in town.
Sources and info:
Info on the concept of "Schutzjude":
https://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=571&language=english
Jewish community in Bleckede:
http://www.judeninbleckede.de/
Gravestone of Rosa Heinemann (Simon Heinemann"s mother):
http://www.judeninbleckede.de/?Der_Friedhof:Seite_276
Digitized family documents within the „Heinemann Collection“ at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York:
http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=1640779
Memoirs of Emilie Heinemann, StA Lüneburg, NBi 33