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latest: Minna Behr [*1874]
Father of
Husband of Friederike Marcus, nee Samuel [*1811]
Benjamin Meyer, second hand dealer (bis 1874)
Magnus Marcus junior, Textile and shoe business
Magnus Marcus senior was born in Walsrode in 1802 as the son of Motje Marcus and his wife Lena Marcus, who came from Altona. He lived as a merchant in Walsrode in very poor circumstances and had to be supported time and again by the Jewish community. Together with his wife Friederike (Rieke) Marcus, née Samuel, from Vorbrück near Walsrode, he had ten children, most of whom were born in Walsrode. However, the family also lived in the Hadeln region (at the mouth of the Elbe) and in Bevensen south of Lüneburg.
Around 1870/71, Magnus Marcus senior and his wife came to Lüneburg together with most of their children. Their adult sons Magnus junior, Samuel and Wolf Marcus, worked partly with their father or set up their own businesses in Lüneburg. Like their parents, they also founded very large families.
In the following years, the Marcus family seems to have risen socially: If the job title in the Lüneburg address book for Magnus Marcus is initially listed as “junk dealer”, from the 1880s it reads “merchant”. He presumably founded the family"s first shoe store, which was later followed by many more
Friederike died in Lüneburg in 1880, her widower Magnus Marcus senior in 1882. Both were buried in the town"s Jewish cemetery.
Sources and info:
Reuven Stern: A Genealogy Report for Motje Marcus (myheritage), 2016
Stephan Heinemann, Jüdisches Leben in den nordostniedersächsischen Kleinstädten Walsrode und Uelzen (Schriftenreihe des Bundes der Freunde des Heidemuseums Walsrode e.V., Band 14), Walsrode 2001, pp. 144-45, 182-83