Erich Salomon

Erich Salomon (28 April 1886 – 7 July 1944) was a German Jewish news photographer known for his pictures in the diplomatic and legal professions and the innovative methods he used to acquire them.

The upper-class Berlin family lived at Jägerstraße 29 and later at Tiergartenstraße 15 (today the State Representation of Baden-Württemberg is located here).

After the war, he worked in the promotion department of the Ullstein publishing empire designing their billboard advertisements.

By cutting a hole in the hat for the lens, Salomon snapped a photo of a police killer on trial in a Berlin criminal court.

[5] After Adolf Hitler came to power in Nazi Germany, Salomon fled to the Netherlands with his wife and continued his photographic career in The Hague.

Erich Salomon (right) and his son Otto Salomon (Peter Hunter) (left), London 1935
Stolperstein (stepping stone)
  • HIER WOHNTE
  • DR. ERICH SALOMON
  • JG. 1886
  • FLUCHT HOLLAND
  • DEPORTIERT 1944
  • THERESIENSTADT
  • AUSCHWITZ
  • ERMORDET 7.7.1944