Max Raphael Hahn

[2] In 1864, Raphael Hahn purchased the large house at Weender Strasse 63 (now 70) in Göttingen, which was to become the family's ancestral home, which today bears a commemorative inscription.

[3] In 1896 Max Hahn joined his father's business, where his eldest brother Nathan (born November 27, 1868, in Göttingen, murdered in September 1942 in Treblinka)[4] worked since 1887.

[6] During the First World War, Nathan Hahn had the company warehouses serve as a collection point for hides and cases needed for troop equipment, and Max Raphael Hahn worked as a leather expert for the Prussian War Raw Materials Department, first in Leipzig, then in Vienna and in Budapest.

In June 1917 Hahn married Gertud Hana Lasch (born July 14, 1893, in Halberstadt, murdered 1941 in Riga)[7] and in February 1919 Max Raphael Hahn returned to Göttingen and purchased a villa at Merkelstraße 3 in early September 1919, where their son Rudolf was born to the couple on December 3, 1919, and their daughter Hanni on March 22, 1922.

[11] During the time of Nazi persecution Max Raphael Hahn cared for congregation members in need, helping some to emigrate and comforting others.

Almost without exception, these became victims of the brutal assaults by the SS and SA, who on the night of the Reich Pogrom from November 9 to 10, 1938, but also on the two following days, broke into homes or business premises, devastated the facilities, looted the stores, mistreated the residents and arrested men, women and even children without distinction.

In the middle of the night of November 10, at about two in the morning, SS men with axes broke into the villa at Merkelstrasse 3, roused the Hahns from their sleep and devastated their home.

[16] Max Raphael and Gertrud Hahn, his brother Nathan and his wife Betty, whose apartment at 19 Baurat Gerber Strasse had also been vandalized, were arrested.

With the help of catalog information and historical photographs from the family's holdings, the so-called Jacob's cup from the Hahn Collection was identified at the Museum für Kunstgewerbe in Hamburg.

Göttingen citizen and collector - a story of life and death, courageous perseverance, and the continuing power of family tradition," published by Hogrefe Verlag in 2014.

Since February 7, 2018, eight Stolpersteine in front of the residential and commercial building at Weender Straße 70 in Göttingen commemorate the fate of Max Raphael Hahn and his relatives.