Arthur Marum
1883 - 1947

Arthur Friedrich Marum was born in Cologne in July 1883 as the second son of Carl Marum, born in Sobernheim in 1852, and Stephanie Marum, née Schwab, born in Mayence in 1858. At that time, only his uncle Jacob Marum, a merchant and owner of a wine and spirits agency, lived in Frankfurt on the Main, Unterer Atzemer 13. Arthur's brother Ernst, born in Frankfurt, was six years older. According to the Frankfurt address book of 1913, his father owned the store "Landauer & Stern" together with Alfred Katz at Kaiser street 52, which sold men's and women's hats, straw and felt, flowers, feathers and nouveaux. His mother and his brother Ernst worked in this business as authorized signatories, along with others.

In the 1911 address book of the city of Frankfurt, the general practitioner Dr. Arthur Marum was listed for the first time with his own household, namely with the address Guiollett street 8. His parents lived at Bettinaplatz 68 at the time, while his brother Ernst was listed as a merchant with the address Kettenhofweg 128. Therefore, all family members lived in Frankfurt's Westend district before the First World War.

In September 1908, Dr. Arthur Marum married Malwine Kahn (1883-1942), who came from Sulzburg or Freiburg. They had two daughters, Erika (also known as Erica) and Gabriele, who was born in July 1917. While Erika Marum died in 1930, Gabriele Marum, later married to Kleissner, was able to emigrate to Great Britain and died in London in 2009 at the age of 92.

Arthur Marum studied medicine. He was awarded his doctorate in April 1907 at the University of Freiburg (im Breisgau) with a thesis entitled "On the consumption of chloroform and ether using the Roth-Draeger apparatus (modified after König), with and without prior injection of morphine-scopolamine". He later worked at the Ludwigs University of Giessen in the ear clinic at Liebig street 20 as an assistant doctor. From 1911, Arthur Marum practiced as an ear, nose and throat specialist in Frankfurt on the Main.

During the First World War, he worked for the military hospital of the Frankfurt Association for Jewish Nurses under the direction of Dr. Adolf Deutsch (1868-1942) in the Jewish nurses' home, where the Jewish doctors Dr. Fritz Ansbacher and Dr. Michael Witebsky (whose son Ernst Witebsky became a member of the Frankfurt section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club in 1922) and Dr. Käthe Neumark--the only female doctor--working there. During the First World War, Dr. Arthur Marum was a junior doctor in the 3rd Medical Company of the XVIII. Army Corps and was awarded the Iron Cross.

After the First World War, he had his practice as an ear, nose and throat specialist at Eschenheimer Anlage 37. According to the official Frankfurt address book of 1933, he also ran a polyclinic at Braubach street 36 until then. Until 1938, he is listed in the official Frankfurt address books as an ENT specialist with the address Eschenheimer Anlage 37, after which he is no longer listed due to his emigration.

Dr. Arthur Marum joined the Frankfurt on the Main section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club in 1912, as did his older brother Ernst Marum (1877-1924). Dr. Arthur Marum became active for the section after the First World War. For example, in November 1927, together with Konrad Hoenen, he recommended the admission of the teacher Jakob Kowalt and the city school board member Heinrich Schüßler. In 1929, he also donated 6 RM for the construction of the new Rauhekopfhütte at the Oetz valley Alps (Tyrol). In February 1933, together with the Jewish lawyer Dr. Siegfried Katzenstein, he recommended the admission of the Jewish lawyer Werner Simon.

In the Frankfurt section's Nachrichten-Blatt of March 1931, it is noted that Section member Erika Marum died in 1930. She was the elder daughter of Dr. Arthur Marum and Malvine Marum, née Kahn. Her death was also recorded in the Jewish Community Gazette of Frankfurt on the Main, No. 1-2 of September 1930, which proves that Erika Marum was a member of the Jewish Community until her death. She is not listed in the 1925 directory of members of the Frankfurt section. We were also unable to find Erika Marum among the new members of the section since October 1926, so it remains unclear when she joined the Frankfurt section of the Alpine Club.

As Dr. Arthur Marum had already been a member of the Frankfurt section before 1914, he was not affected by the "Aryan paragraph" introduced in 1934. He was therefore able to remain a member of the section in the early years of the Nazi era. In fact, according to Nachrichten-Blatt No. 2 from March 1937, Dr. Marum donated 5 RM for the poor children in the section area (Kauner valley), the building fund of the Rauhekopfhütte or for the Alpine Club home at Oberreifenberg. He was also awarded the silver Edelweiss for 25 years of membership at the 1937 annual general meeting together with Dr. Alfred Carlebach, a Jewish lawyer living in London at the time. This proves that Dr. Arthur Marum did not resign from the section in 1933 and was not expelled.

Dr. Arthur Marum worked as a doctor in Frankfurt on the Main until 1938. He emigrated to the USA via Souhtampton (Great Britain) in May 1938, but without his wife Malwine Marum, who had been living separately from him in Freiburg (im Breisgau) since 1933. Instead, he left Germany with his receptionist. In June 1938, he applied for naturalization in New York City (USA). In November 1944, he married Cecilia Schwegler in Duval (Florida), with whom he lived in Manhattan. Dr. Arthur Marum died in New York City in October 1947, only 64 years old.

Malwine Marum was deported from Freiburg to the Gurs camp in the south of France by the Nazi authorities in October 1940 and from there deported via the Noé internment camp to the Drancy collection camp near Paris in 1942. In August 1942, Malwine Marum was deported from Drancy to the Auschwitz extermination camp and murdered there.

The daughter Gabriele Kleissner was able to emigrate to Great Britain with her husband Manfred Kleissner and their two children and lived at 37 Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, London from September 1939. While her husband died in London in 1974, she died there in 2009 at the age of 92.