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Father of
Husband of Georgine Meyer, nee Mendel [*1797]
Benjamin Meyer (bis 1874)
Magnus Marcus junior family (1880-1894)
Obere Schrangenstraße 9
Lüneburg
Benjamin Meyer, second hand dealer (bis 1874)
Magnus Marcus junior, Textile and shoe business
We do not yet know much about Benjamin Meyer: Born in 1793, he came to Lüneburg with his wife an three children in 1828. They probably came from the Region of Neustadt am Rübenberge. In the 1840s, Benjamin Meyer was one of the first Jews who was allowed to become a citizen of Lüneburg. In 1860, the Lüneburg address book lists him as a second hand dealer in Obere Schrangenstraße.
He was married to Georgine née Mendel, and the couple had four children. While the two daughters married men from other places and moved away, the sons Mendel and Gumpel Meyer stayed in Lüneburg and continued their father"s business as second hand dealers and "Produktenhändler", i.e. dealers in raw materials.
Benjamin Meyer died in Lüneburg in 1874 and was buried in the city"s Jewish cemetery - close to his wife Georgine who had died in 1871.