15 No. 1 StAG — pre-NS citizenship loss made irreparable by persecution: viable?(an updated post)
My great-great-grandmother Amalia Hejm was born 1870 in Ostrowo, Province of Posen, Prussia. In 1900 she married a Russian Imperial subject in Kalisz, automatically losing her German citizenship under the nationality law then in force. The 1900 marriage register explicitly describes her as “daughter of the city of Ostrowo in Prussia.”
The loss was NOT persecution-driven — routine consequence of marrying a foreigner. The argument is that it became irreparable after 1933: as a Jewish woman, Amalia was permanently excluded from recovering German citizenship. The 11th Ordinance (1941) formally stripped citizenship from Jews abroad.
Her grandson survived KZ Płaszów. I am his great-grandson, applying under §15 StAG from Spain.
Has anyone seen the BVA accept or reject a §15 No. 1 claim where the citizenship loss predates 1933 but NS persecution made recovery impossible?
§15 No. 4 deprioritized — Kalisz was outside 1937 borders.
Thank you!