Martha Beuthner was born on 8 April 1879 in Königshütte, in what was German Silesia at the time, and is now Chorzow in Poland. Her parents were Markus Beuthner and Ernestine Behnsch. On 19 September 1880 her brother Bruno was born. He was to settle in Hamburg, Germany, as a salesman, and to marry Charlotte Adolph, a non-Jewish lady.
Martha married at the age of twenty, on 20 August 1899 in Königs…