Collection 25: Landecker family (Hans and Eva) - papers, 1918-1981; together with Rosengold family, 1889-1926; Landecker family (Kurt and Charlotte), 1928-1973; Segall family (Alfred and Ruth), 1910-1977; Blum family, 1890-1980

MLMSS 6647

sub-fonds

1880s - 1981

Textual Records, Photographs, Ephemera

153656

6 boxes - 1 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (typescript)
Photographs
Ephemera

Siegfried (Fritz) and Paula Landecker (nee Rosengold) and their three children Kurt (b. 1902), Ruth (b. 1904) and Hans (1906-1978) all migrated from Germany to Australia during the 1930s. The Landeckers came from East Prussia, a historic German state which no longer exists, from the city of Konigsberg, later renamed Kaliningrad.
Hans migrated with his first wife Eva (nee Segall), and their daughter Kathrine, born in 1935. The family spent six months in London before being accepted by Australia as stateless refugees. They arrived in Sydney in September 1939. They sailed on the maiden voyage of the liner `Dominion Monarch'. Their son Thomas was born in 1941 in Australia.
Hans, a medical doctor, worked in Australia until the late 1950s when he returned to Germany working first in Munich before taking up a postion as Medical Superintendent at the Israelitisches Krankenhaus in Hamburg. He retired in 1978.
Divorced from Eve, Hans had married Susanne Nuttall (nee Blum) in the mid 1950s. Susanne's family had migrated from Austria.
Kurt Landecker arrived in Australia, a few years earlier than Hans, to work for the Kreisler company developing radio equipment. He married Charlotte Klompus. Kurt became a lecturer in physics at Sydney University and later Associate Professor at the University of New England, Armidale.
Ruth Landecker had trained in Berlin as a nursing sister, and later trained as a physiotherapist with her own practice in Sydney city. She married Alfred Segall in 1943, a distant relative of her sister in law, Eva Landecker. Alfred worked as an accountant in Germany and Australia, and served in the Australian army. His parents and sister died during WorldWar II in Theresienstadt.

ROSENGOLD FAMILY - papers, mainly of Paula Rosengold (later Landecker), 1889-1926 (Call No.: MLMSS 6647/1)
LANDECKER FAMILY, Fritz - letter received, 1927 (Call No.: MLMSS 6647/1)
LANDECKER FAMILY, Hans and Eva (nee Segall) - papers and correspondence, 1918-1981 (Call No.: MLMSS 6647/1-2)
SEGALL FAMILY, Leo - papers, 1916-1938 (Call No.: MLMSS 6647/2)
LANDECKER FAMILY, Kurt and Charlotte (nee Klompus) - papers and correspondence, 1928-1973 (Call No.: MLMSS 6647/3)
SEGALL FAMILY, Alfred and Ruth (nee Landecker) - papers and correspondence, 1910-1977 (Call No.: MLMSS 6647/4)
BLUM FAMILY, Frederick and Anna - papers and correspondence, 1890-1980 (Call No.: MLMSS 6647/5)
MISCELLANEOUS - papers, 1883, 1970s. Includes letter received by Lo[e]wy (theatre director) from Gustav Mahler; photographs of Otto Klemperer, friend of Hans Landecker (Call No.: MLMSS 6647/5)
FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS - 1880s-1980s (Call No.: MLMSS 6647/6)

German, English, Dutch