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Deutscher Reichsanzeiger und Preußischer Staatsanzeiger Nr. 54, 4. März 1939 — Ausbürgerungsliste Nr. 82 (page excerpt, 29 names). Probable match for Alfred Bernstein (entry #10: 'Bernstein, Alfred — 18.12.1910 Gr[audenz]'), Philip's older brother. Match is likely but not certain: name + DOB + birthplace align, but the list gives no middle initial or address, so a same-named/same-DOB person cannot be strictly ruled out.

04.03.1939 from Berlin concerning Alfred Bernstein

Original — Deutsch

Abschrift zu 83-76 I/3 (82-Liste)

Deutscher Reichsanzeiger
und Preußischer Staatsanzeiger

Nr. 54 vom 4. März 1939

Bekanntmachung.

Auf Grund des § 2 des Gesetzes über den Widerruf von Einbürgerungen und die Aberkennung der deutschen Staatsangehörigkeit vom 14. Juli 1933 (RGBl. I S. 480) erkläre ich im Einvernehmen mit dem Herrn Reichsminister des Auswärtigen folgende Personen der deutschen Staatsangehörigkeit für verlustig:

  1. Adler, Bruno, geb. am 29.6.1886 in Chemnitz,
  2. Adler, Rebekka, geb.-Lindau, geb. am 11.7.1901 in Hamburg,
  3. Adler, Erich, geb. am 29.5.1924 in Hamburg,
  4. Adler, Justin, geb. am 31.8.1908 in München,
  5. Adler, Pinchas, geb.-Loeb, geb. am 1.4.1905 in München,
  6. Alexander, Georg, geb. am 16.1.1907 in Köln,
  7. Alexander, Minna geb. Guttschmidt, geb. am 3.3.1905 in Hamburg,
  8. Bahr, Leo, geb. am 7.9.1897 in Brühl bzw. Köln,
  9. Bachrach, Bruno, geb. am 17.2.1914 in Frankfurt/Main,
 10. Bernstein, Alfred, geb. am 18.12.1910 in Grudenz [Graudenz],
 11. Bieler, Arthur, geb. am 4.10.1905 in Mühlheim/Ruhr,
 12. Brand, Olga, geb. am 22.5.1888 in Frankfurt/Main,
 13. Cohn, Alfred, geb. am 29.3.1893 in Strasberg,
 14. Cohn, Lotte Anna Else, geb. Brummert, geb. am 3.12.1897 in Frankfurt/Oder,
 15. Cohn, Hans Joachim, geb. am 22.12.1920 in Berlin-Charlottenburg,
 16. Cohn, James, geb. am 6.11.1882 in Breslau,
 17. Cohn, Emmy geb. Neumann verw. Neumann, geb. am 22.7.1881 in Kaiserslautern,
 18. Exhausen, Eugen Heinz, geb. am 1.1.1906 in Leipzig,
 19. Exhausen, Hermann, geb. am 24.2.1900 in Neuteich bei Danzig,
 20. Exhausen, L., Marcus, geb. am 27.1.1894 in Polzin,
 21. Exhausen, L., Martha, geb.-Oldewohl, geb. am 29.5.1901 in Paris,
 22. Exhausen, L., Hermann Heimann, geb. am 8.7.1923 in Hamburg,
 23. Exhausen, L., Leo, geb. am 16.8.1924 in Hamburg,
 24. Exhausen, Isy Jona, geb. am 5.10.1923 in Hamburg,
 25. Exhausen, Alicia, geb. am 17.7.1927 in Hamburg,
 26. Exhausen, Adela, geb. Pacha, geb. am 17.6.1909 in Hamburg,
 27. Exhausen, Bernd, geb. am 17.6.1929 in Hamburg,
 28. Exlanger, Samuel, geb. am 17.8.1897 in Ötlingen (A.-A. Konstanz),
 29. Ferber, Karl Ferdinand, geb. am 1.5.1906 in Köln

30.

[Note: OCR of names 18–27 is imperfect — surname is likely 'Herrnstadt' or similar rather than 'Exhausen'; requires re-reading against original. Name #10 — Bernstein, Alfred, 18.12.1910, Graudenz — is clear.]

Translation — English

Transcript of 83-76 I/3 (List 82)

German Reich Gazette and Prussian State Gazette
No. 54 of 4 March 1939

Public Notice.

On the basis of § 2 of the Law on the Revocation of Naturalisations and the Deprivation of German Citizenship of 14 July 1933 (Reich Law Gazette I p. 480), in agreement with the Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs I hereby declare the following persons to have lost German citizenship:

(list of 29 names and birth dates, continuing with #30 on the following page)

Entry of interest to this archive:
  10. Bernstein, Alfred, born 18 December 1910 in Graudenz (Grudziądz, West Prussia).

This entry corresponds to alfred_bernstein in the family database (b. 18 Dec 1910 Graudenz), Philip Hans Bernstein's older brother. Match is probable but not strictly certain — the list provides no middle initial, parents, or last-known address, so a same-named individual with the same birth date cannot be fully ruled out from this page alone. However, the combination of surname + exact DOB + birthplace is highly specific.

Historical context

Page excerpt from the Deutscher Reichsanzeiger und Preußischer Staatsanzeiger No. 54, issued 4 March 1939. The Reichsanzeiger was the official gazette of the German Reich; after 1933 it became the legal instrument by which the Nazi regime denaturalised Jewish and politically undesirable Germans who had emigrated or fled. This particular page is labelled 'Abschrift zu 83-76 I/3 (82-Liste)' — i.e. the 82nd such Ausbürgerungsliste. The cited statutory basis is § 2 of the 'Gesetz über den Widerruf von Einbürgerungen und die Aberkennung der deutschen Staatsangehörigkeit' of 14 July 1933 (RGBl. I S. 480), which empowered the Reich Minister of the Interior — in agreement with the Reich Foreign Minister — to strip citizenship from Germans abroad deemed to have 'damaged German interests.' In practice the lists targeted Jews, political exiles, and anti-Nazi activists; loss of citizenship was paired with confiscation of remaining property in Germany. Entry #10 on this page — 'Bernstein, Alfred, geb. am 18.12.1910 in Grudenz' — is a probable (but not confirmed) match for alfred_bernstein in the family database: Alfred Bernstein, born 18 December 1910 in Graudenz (Grudziądz, West Prussia), older brother of Philip Hans Bernstein. Alfred emigrated from Germany to France, then from France onward to Shanghai, where he died on 14 May 1989. If confirmed, this page is the legal instrument by which his German citizenship was revoked — part of the systematic 1938–39 wave of denaturalisations that preceded the outbreak of war. The match-confidence flag should remain 'probable' until corroborated by a second source (e.g. his Shanghai naturalisation papers citing statelessness, or a cross-reference from the Bundesarchiv's published Reichsanzeiger index). Names 18–28 on this page appear, from the scan quality, to share a single surname (likely 'Herrnstadt' rather than the OCR-read 'Exhausen') — the name list should be re-verified against the Bundesarchiv index before treating the secondary names as citations.