Leopold Bähr

Leopold Bähr

Leopold Bähr (born September 7, 1897 ; declared dead on May 8, 1945 ) was a German Jew and citizen of the city of Brühl (Rhineland) .

Bähr was the son of Simon Bähr and Regina (née Hertz). He worked in Brühl as a painter and junk dealer. In 1920 he married the non-Jewish Chlothilde Römbell.

At the beginning of September 1938, Bähr fled to Brussels. After the Germans took Brussels, he fled to France. There he was interned in Camp de Gurs and deported on August 4, 1942 with the 28th transport from the Drancy assembly camp. He is missing in the Auschwitz extermination camp . He was pronounced dead on May 8, 1945.

After her husband had fled, his wife Chlothilde initially continued to live in Brühl with her children. As the wife of a Jew, she was to be deported to a camp in Hanover in September 1944. However, she was able to avoid deportation and go into hiding with her daughter Marlis and her nephew Josef Breuer in Teichröda , Thuringia , as evacuees.

Bähr's sons and his brother were deported as so-called “ half-Jews ” in September 1944 to a labor camp in Thuringia . In March 1945 they were able to escape and visit their mother in Teichröda. After the end of the war, they returned to Brühl with their mother and sister Marlis in the summer of 1945

Leopold-Bähr-Platz in Brühl

The junction at the Jewish cemetery in Brühl (Rhineland) was named after Leopold Bähr, representing all persecuted and murdered Jewish citizens of Brühl in Leopold-Bähr-Platz.

literature

• Barbara Becker-Jákli , Jews in Brühl (Volume 14 of the series of publications on Brühl's history), Brühl 1988. ISBN 978-3-926076-22-9