Stern & Loebl Families Database
A fully searchable database containing the Jewish ancestors of the Stern and Lobl/Loebl families - and their many descendant lines as researched by Gerald Stern.
Fritz Siegfried LOEBL
1886 - 1956 (70 years)-
Name Fritz Siegfried LOEBL Birth 8 Apr 1886 Bamberg, Germany 
Gender Male Death 22 Nov 1956 Gateshead, England Person ID I144 My Genealogy Last Modified 1 Mar 2024
Father Hugo LOEBL, b. 19 Aug 1857, Michelob, Bohemia (Mecholupy, Czech Rep.) d. 18 Feb 1929, Bamberg, Germany (Grave No 77) (Age 71 years) Relationship natural Mother Karolina Lina SCHLOSS, b. 23 Aug 1861, Maroldsweisach, Germany d. 29 Sep 1942, Theresienstadt and then Treblinka (Age 81 years) Relationship natural Family ID F104 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elsa FRIED, b. 6 Aug 1892, Bamberg, Germany d. 28 Mar 1981, Gateshead, England (Age 88 years) Marriage 11 May 1919 Bamberg, Germany Children 1. Wilhelm Bill Frederick LOEBL became LOBLE, b. 20 May 1921, Bamberg, Germany d. 15 Aug 2004, Minneapolis, USA (Age 83 years) [natural]2. Rudolf Ronald Frederick LOEBL became LOBLE, b. 8 Jan 1923, Bamberg, Germany d. 1 Feb 1965, Gateshead, England (Age 42 years) [natural]3. Guenter LOEBL became George Frederick LOBLE, b. 25 Sep 1926, Bamberg, Germany d. 25 Feb 2021, Newcastle upon Tyne (buried at Hazelrigg Cemetery) (Age 94 years) [natural]Family ID F7 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 1 Mar 2024
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Notes - Trained with the Bamberg textile manufacturers Sichel & Kaufmann from 1902. Later he worked with the Bing metalware company in Nuremberg. From about 1910 he worked for some time in London returning in 1913 to enter the family business. During WW1 he served in the Somme on the German army front line where he was promoted to Lieutenant in June 1917 (rare for a Jew) and was awarded the Iron Crosses 2nd and later 1st Class as well as the War Injury Medal and the Bavarian Military Cross of Merit. He monitored British military messages!
After the war, he returned to the family electrical wholesale business in Bamberg and with his brothers Salamon and Robert began manufacturing in 1919 resulting in 1924 in the separate manufacturing business, Hugo Loebl Soehne, which employed 200 people.
On the morning after Kristallnacht, Fritz and his brother Robert were arrested but released the same evening because it is said, the Gestapo Chief in Bamberg went to school with Fritz. In December 1938 the manufacturing business was 'sold' and Fritz and his family pursued their departure from Germany to England.
Here they began afresh (Loblite Limited) in Gateshead, with some encouragement from the British Government to support this depressed economic area, but also following a period of internment as they were regarded as "enemy aliens" at Huyton Internment Camp near Liverpool.
Buried At Hazelrigg Jewish Cemetery, Newcastle upon Tyne. Hebrew name: Sandel ben David ha'Levi.
- Trained with the Bamberg textile manufacturers Sichel & Kaufmann from 1902. Later he worked with the Bing metalware company in Nuremberg. From about 1910 he worked for some time in London returning in 1913 to enter the family business. During WW1 he served in the Somme on the German army front line where he was promoted to Lieutenant in June 1917 (rare for a Jew) and was awarded the Iron Crosses 2nd and later 1st Class as well as the War Injury Medal and the Bavarian Military Cross of Merit. He monitored British military messages!