Albert and Amalie Feldmann (née Lehmann)

Merchant Family from Posen, Later of Görlitz

Albert Feldmann, a Prokurist (authorized commercial representative) and merchant (Kaufmann), and his wife Amalie Feldmann (née Lehmann) were members of the Jewish middle class of Posen (Poznań), one of the principal centers of Jewish life in 19th-century Prussia.
 Amalie was born there on November 30, 1846, into a Jewish merchant family. In the later 19th century, the couple moved westward to Görlitz, joining the wave of Jewish families who sought professional advancement and civic participation in the growing Silesian towns of the German Empire.

In Görlitz, Albert Feldmann built a respected career within the city’s commercial life. He served as Prokurist for the Verein junger Kaufleute (Association of Young Merchants) and its affiliated health and burial funds, and was later registered as a Kaufmann in the Görlitz Handelsregister. His firm remained listed until it was deleted following his death.

Over the decades, the Feldmann family lived at several addresses throughout Görlitz, reflecting their social and professional stability within the city’s merchant class. Their final known residence was recorded at Schützenstraße 31, near the commercial center, where Albert maintained his professional office.

While visiting or possibly undergoing medical treatment in Stettin (Szczecin), Amalie Feldmann died on August 19, 1892, at the age of 44, as documented in her death certificate (Stettin Civil Registry, Nr. 2057). She was buried in Görlitz on August 23, 1892.

Albert and Amalie were the parents of several children:

• Isidor Feldmann (born 1879),
• Emil Feldmann (born 1881),
• Wilhelm Feldmann (born 1882), who was killed in 1915 while serving in the German army during World War I,
• Thekla Feldmann (born 1882), who survived the Holocaust through her marriage to a non-Jewish husband and was still living in Görlitz in 1939, and
• Albert Joseph Feldmann, who died in infancy and was buried in the Görlitz Jewish cemetery.

Through Albert’s professional life and the family’s civic presence, the Feldmanns embodied the aspirations and values of the Jewish bourgeoisie that shaped Görlitz’s cultural and economic landscape in the late 19th century. Their story—spanning migration, success, loss, and survival—mirrors the broader experience of Jewish families in Silesia across a century of transformation