Eugen and Frida Rosenberg Family Collection 1867-1965 Bulk dates: 1898-1949

This collection documents the family of Eugen Rosenberg and Frida Giglio Saenger Rosenberg née Magnus, in particular two of their sons, actor Hans-Karl Rosenberg (stage name Hans-Karl Magnus) and electrician Herbert Rosenberg. It includes a large amount of correspondence between Frida, Hans-Karl, and Herbert Rosenberg during World War Two. ; Frida Giglio Saenger Rosenberg née Magnus was born in 1878 to Julius Magnus and Margarete née Mosner. In 1898, she married banker Eugen Rosenberg (1865–1912) in Berlin, with whom she had four sons. In 1906, Eugen took over Gottschalk und Magnus, a bank founded by his in-laws. After Eugen's death, Frida Rosenberg moved to Freiburg im Breisgau with her children. In 1926, she married businessman Max Saenger. They moved to Italy, and together ran the Pension Windsor in Florence in the 1930s. In the late 1930s, she left Italy for Belgium, where she was very briefly married to Alfred Giglio (born 1885). She later made her way to London and then New York. ; Frida Rosenberg had four sons. The first, Dr. Julius Rosenberg (1899-1944) married Ilse née Lewinnek (1908-1944), with whom he had a daughter, Irene (1930-1944). The family fled to Amsterdam in the 1930s but was ultimately killed in the Holocaust. ; Her second son was Hans-Karl Rosenberg (1900-1950), an actor with the stage name Hans-Karl Magnus. He performed at the Staatliches Spielhaus Berlin in the 1920s, and then with the Jüdischer Kulturbund in the 1930s. After internment at Sachsenhausen, Rosenberg fled to Shanghai. As the Japanese approached, he fled again, first to Manila and then to Australia, where he lied about his age and enlisted in the army. After the war he first went to England and later returned to Berlin. ; Heinz-Eitel Rosenberg (born 1904) was Frida Rosenberg's third son. Her fourth son, electrician Herbert Peter Klaus Rosenberg (1908-1987) was known as Herbert Ross in the United States. He fled Germany for Belgium, and escaped Europe to New York in 1941, where he stayed with his uncle Paul Oskar Kristeller. Herbert served in the United States army in World War Two, and eventually settled in Michigan, where he married Ruth née Reinhold (died 2009). ; Processed ; digitized ; Bennies, Julie. Bebel, August. Ullstein, Herman. Wallenberg, Heinz. Gesellschaft der Freunde. Brüderverein zur gegenseitigen Unterstützung. Bruedervereine zu gegenseitiger Unterstuetzung. Brüder-Verein.