Magolsheim affair
The Magolsheim affair describes a breach of the peace in 1957. In the process, residents of the village of Magolsheim (today's district of Münsingen ) completely destroyed the house of a Sinti family .
The Magolsheim affair was one of the clearest signs of still widespread antiziganism in the Federal Republic of Germany.
history
A Sinti family had bought a house in the small community of Magolsheim in 1957. The money was made available to her by the mayor of the Herrlingen community on condition that they leave the city.
The Magolsheim community tried unsuccessfully to legally prevent the family from moving in. On the evening of June 3, 1957, before the family was due to move in, the residents gathered to discuss how to prevent the family from moving. The sentence “Tear down the house!” Is said to have been uttered, so that around 10 or 11 p.m. a group of several dozen villagers set out to tear down the two-story house in a joint effort. They used tractors for this.
The next morning the Sinti family had to break off moving in.
31 people were charged before the large criminal chamber of the Tübingen regional court, including the mayor, the innkeepers who had donated free beer and the teacher. A youngster had to serve three weeks of arrest, the other defendants were sentenced to a three-year suspended sentence. Part of the punishment was that the Magolsheim community had to repay Herrlingen the 14,000 marks for the no longer existing house in Hauptstrasse. With this money, the Herrlingen community built a new house for the Sinti family.
Individual evidence
- ↑ "We are Gypsies" in Südwest Presse on March 18, 2017.
- ↑ “Thistles in the Eye of the Village” from ZEIT NR. 12/1958 of March 20, 1958.