 She was born in Schwerin in 1873.In 1895 she married the doctor Adolph Goldberg (also "Adolf Goldberg"; 1860–1938), from Soltau, and moved with him to the municipality of Lesum (part of Bremen since 1939).From 1888, her husband ran a doctor's practice there, in the district Burgdamm, in which Martha Goldberg worked as a receptionist, secretary and book-keeper.