List of stumbling blocks in the Höhenberg district of Cologne

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The list of the stumbling blocks in the Höhenberg district of Cologne leads the artist Gunter Demnig laid stumbling blocks in the Cologne district of depth at the top on.

The list of stumbling blocks is based on the data and research of the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne , partially supplemented by information and comments from Wikipedia articles and external sources. The aim of the art project is to document biographical details of the people who had their (last) voluntarily chosen residence in Cologne in order to preserve their memory.

Note: In many cases, however, it is no longer possible to comprehend a complete description of their life and their path of suffering. In particular, the circumstances of her death can often no longer be researched. Official death notices from ghettos, detention centers, hospitals and concentration camps can often contain information that conceals the true circumstances of death, but are also documented taking this fact into account.
image Name and details of the inscription address Additional Information
Stumbling block for Adam Kurz (Meininger Straße 1) Meininger Str. 1 lived in
Adam Kurz ( born 1904)
In the resistance / SPD
Arrested December 17, 1935
'Preparation for High Treason'
Sentenced June 16, 1936
4 years in prison
Fate unknown
Meininger Str. 1
(laying point at the corner of Arnstädter Weg)
( location )
The Stolperstein, which was laid on October 5, 2016, is a reminder of Adam Kurz
Stumbling block for Ludwig Peter Mois (Koburger Strasse 76) Here lived
Louis Peter Moi ( born in 1876)
In resistance
Trade unionists
Arrested in 1944
Sachsenhausen
Murdered in 1945
Bergen-Belsen
Koburger Str. 76
( location )
The Stolperstein, which was laid on March 11, 2015, commemorates Ludwig Peter Mois , born in 1876.

Ludwig Peter Mois was a politically persecuted trade unionist. He was arrested in 1944 and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In 1945 he was murdered in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp .

Stumbling block for Wilhelm Pertz (Olpener Straße 61) Wilhelm Pertz lived here
In the Resistance / SAPD
Arrested in 1935
'Preparation for High Treason'
Convicted in 1937
Several prisons
Liberated / Survived
Olpener Str. 61
(laying point at the corner of Fuldaer Straße)
( location )
The Stolperstein, which was laid on March 11, 2015, commemorates Wilhelm Perz , who was born on July 21, 1893 in Mülheim near Cologne .

The trained blacksmith Wilhelm Perz became a member of the SPD in 1911 . On September 10, 1915, he married Anna Maria Eidmann. In 1931 he joined the newly founded SAPD . There he met the photographer Erich Sander . After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he was dismissed from the service as a worker in the municipal fleet as "politically unreliable". In 1935 Wilhelm Perz was arrested and tortured by the Düsseldorf Gestapo . In 1936 charges were brought against him at the People's Court in Berlin for “preparing for high treason”. In January 1937 he became a penitentiary convicted of eight years in prison Siegburg detained. Perz was in solitary confinement there until December 1940 . From January 1941 he was used to work in one of the field work detachments. So he managed to get letters, negatives and prints from his fellow inmate Erich Sander out of prison and to contact Erich Sander's mother. After the end of his prison sentence in January 1944, Wilhelm Perz was deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and a few weeks later to the Ravensbrück concentration camp . He survived the death march to Raben Steinfeld and was liberated shortly before the end of the war. On May 25, 1944, Wilhelm Perz returned to Cologne in striped concentration camp clothing.

In 1958 he was elected to the City Council of Cologne as a city councilor for the SPD. Wilhelm Perz died on July 29, 1965 at the age of 72 in his apartment in Cologne-Höhenhaus . His daughter Leni (1917–2009) was married to the Trotskyist politician Georg Jungclas .

Stumbling block for Walter HE Schwendt (Bamberger Straße 6) Here lived
Walter HE Schwendt ( born in 1902)
Jehovah's Witnesses
Arrested June 7, 1935
Esterwegen concentration camp
Survived
Bamberger Str. 6
( location )
The stumbling block reminds of Walter Heinrich Ernst Schwendt , born on July 16, 1902 in Cologne.

The civil engineering worker Walter Schwendt was baptized Protestant , but left the church in 1931. He later came in contact with the International Bible Students Association and met for Bible discussions . He was active in the ministry and missionary work with the certificate card in Cologne-Mülheim. At the beginning of May 1935 he was arrested for “working for the International Biblical Research Association” and imprisoned in the Klingelpütz prison in Cologne until July 1935 . From there he was transferred to the Esterwegen concentration camp in Emsland . He was released on October 25, 1935, but was still under observation by the Nazi authorities. Walter Heinrich Ernst Schwendt died on August 18, 1953 of complications from tuberculosis .

Stumbling block for Franz Vehlow Weimarer Strasse 15 Here lived
Franz Vehlow ( born in 1894)
In the resistance / KPD
Escape 1934 Saar area
1936 Spain
International Brigades
Dead December 1, 1936
Madrid
Weimarer Str. 16
( location )
The Stolperstein laid on September 11, 2018 commemorates Franz Vehlow , born on October 24, 1895 in Kalk (now Cologne-Kalk) .

Franz Vehlow was born on Vietorstrasse in Kalk and was the son of a factory worker. Franz Vehlow learned the profession of lathe operator at Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz . First a member of the USPD and later the KPD , he became the only communist works council at KHD . His mandate for the Leipzig ADGB Congress in September 1928 was declared invalid. After collecting signatures against the withdrawal of his mandate, he was dismissed by KHD . In 1929 Franz Vehlow became a full-time functionary of the district leadership of the KPD in the Middle Rhine district . In 1929 and 1930 he was editor of the KönigsbergEcho des Ostens ” and worked as organ leader of the KPD in East Prussia . In the meantime he worked as a secretary for the KPD Reichstag member Fritz Selbmann . In 1931 he was trained at the Comintern M School in Moscow . Before 1933, he was one under the code name Louis Schuster the military and political apparatus (M or AM apparatus) of the CP to. After Ernst Thälmann's arrest in March 1933, he led the party-internal investigation into the circumstances of this arrest on behalf of the KPD Central Committee. 1934 fled Franz Vehlow over the Saar region into Switzerland . As head of the Red Aid and employee of the Comintern intelligence service OMS , he was arrested in Switzerland and deported to France . There he worked until 1936 in the central emigration management of the KPD in Paris . In 1936 he went to Spain and became, under the code name Louis Schuster , political commissioner of the Thälmann battalion in the Spanish Civil War . On December 1, 1936, Franz Vehlow, alias Louis Schuster, died at the side of Hans Beimler during an inspection tour through the positions of his battalion near the Moncloa Palace . Franz Vehlow was buried in the Fuencarral cemetery in Madrid.

Isabel Martinez and Jesus Rodrigez donated the Stolperstein.

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Individual evidence

  1. koeln-nachrichten.de (from March 19, 2015): A family came to Cologne from Israel especially for this purpose ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 5, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / koeln-nachrichten.de
  2. ksta.de (from March 10, 2015): Second World War in Siegburg Resistance and active help in the Siegburg prison , accessed on March 5, 2016
  3. ^ Death certificate No. 717 from July 29, 1965, registry office Cologne Mülheim. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved May 7, 2018 .
  4. Wilfried Dubois and Helmut Wendler: Obituary for Leni Jungclas. In: SoZ - Socialist Newspaper. Retrieved May 7, 2018 .
  5. Mike Lorsbach: The Nazi persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Cologne (1933-1945). A representation of the history of persecution of the Cologne Jehovah's Witnesses on the basis of previously unpublished archive material . Ed .: Working group on the historical research of Jehovah's Witnesses in Cologne in cooperation with the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne. Cologne 2006, p. 22-23 .
  6. ksta.de of September 4, 2018: Commemorating a stumbling block for a fighter , accessed on October 2, 2018
  7. Kölner Wochenspiegel of September 18, 2018: Commemoration of the murdered worker leader Franz Vehlow A stumbling block in memory , accessed on October 2, 2018
  8. kfsr.info: A stumbling block for Franz Vehlow (alias Louis Schuster) in Cologne. (Documents on Franz Vehlow from the Werner Abel archive (AWA)), accessed on October 2, 2018
  9. bundesstiftung-aufteilung.de: Biographical information from the Handbook of German Communists - Vehlow, Franz , accessed on October 2, 2018

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