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Sally Spielmann, called Carl (Karl) according to Lüneburg registration documents, was born in 1865 in Dobrzyn, Poland, which was part of the Russian Empire at the time. He came to Lüneburg at the end of 1909 - it is not yet clear where he had lived immediately before.
Carl Spielmann was a tailor. He first lived and worked at Am Berge, then, after a short stay in Harburg in the summer of 1913, at Auf dem Wüstenort 4. The house belonged to the family of Marcus Heinemann, it stood at the rear end of the large property that belonged to Große Bäckerstraße 23.
At the beginning of December 1931, Carl Spielmann became seriously ill and was admitted to hospital in Lüneburg. He was discharged home a short time later. Carl Sally Spielmann died in Lüneburg in September 1932 and was buried in the town"s Jewish cemetery "Am Neuen Felde".
The death list of the synagogue congregation noted that the Jewish roots of the deceased - who was apparently known in Lüneburg only as Karl Spielmann - came as a suprise: “...had lived here for 30 years and nobody knew that he was Jewish until he died in hospital.”
Name variants: Karl