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Philipp Benjamin Schwabe was born 1771 in Dessau, Germany, and died on 14 January 1852 in Hamburg, Germany. He married Rosalie Marie Levy. She died 18 March 1846 in Hamburg. [To return to the Schwabe Family page click here] The children of Philipp and Rosalie are:
Notes: Much of the genealogical information on the descendants of Phillip Benjamin comes from the Hamburg state archives and in particular a typed up genealogy dated 23 February 1938. This document was probably produced to prove how long one's ancestors had been non-Jews according to Nazi definitions. All five of Philipp's children were baptized on June 6, 1819 in Hamburg and so Philipp 's family left Jewish community and they became Lutheran from that point on. In the Birth Registers at the Hamburg Staats Archiv, Philipp Benjamin and five of his children are grouped together in 1819, which is the time of their christenings not their births. The youngest son, Hermann Heinrich, was born in 1816 and christened in 1818. On November 24, 1819 Phillip Benjamin acquired Hamburg citizenship. In the citizenship papers he states that he had seven children. There is an 'indication' that Rosalie, his wife, was a widow at the time of their marriage and that she had two children already, this brings the total to seven for his household. According to the February 1938 genealogical file on the Schwabes, Rosalie Marie Levy, was baptized in May 1820. Thus the process of ‘Christianization’ covers a number of years. I have a note somewhere that Rosalie was a widow when she married Philipp and that she had two children from her first marriage. In the records of
the Jewish community of Hamburg, there is also listed the dues paid by Philip
Benjamin from 1814 through 1819, beginning at 400 (Marks, courants) per year in
1814 and 1815, then 1816 and 1817 at 334, and then 1818 and 1819 at 374. There
is also an explicit note that he left the community in 1819. Was he taxed out
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