List of stumbling blocks in Cologne's Humboldt / Gremberg district

This list is part of the wiki project Stolpersteine in Cologne . This project serves to coordinate, expand and maintain the Cologne stumbling block lists . In addition to creating biographical information, we would like to compare existing information and collect and document incorrect entries.

If you would like to help supplement this list, please take a look at the relevant project page .

The list of the stumbling blocks in the Cologne district Humboldt / Gremberg results by artist Gunter Demnig laid stumbling blocks in the Cologne district of Humboldt / Gremberg 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
	Here lived Jakob Esper ( born in 1895) Arrested multiple times Admitted in 1939 Sanatorium Düren 'Relocated' April 8, 1940 Brandenburg Assassinated April 8, 1940 Action T4	Gremberger Str. 87 ( location )	The Stolperstein laid on October 21, 2015 commemorates Jakob Esper , born on November 16, 1895. The factory worker Jakob Esper lost his right arm in an accident at Felten & Guilleaume at the age of 19 . After several months in a Cologne clinic, he opened a sales stand in Cologne Central Station. Among other things, because of violations of the shop closing law , his stand was closed. Thereupon he hired himself as a peddler and became a criminal offender, among other things, for peddling without a trade license , begging and theft . Jakob Esper spent six years in prison and was forcibly placed in the Brauweiler labor establishment . On May 10, 1939, Jakob Esper is said to have said to two plainclothes police officers in a pub: “He has already sat twice in the concert camp [concentration camp] and is fed up . Adolf Hitler does not care for the little people, only for the big ones (...). The best and most capable officials would have been chased to devil after the seizure of power, while now only idiots ruled. " Jakob Esper is convicted of violating the treachery law and is admitted to the sanatorium in Düren . In March 1940 he was transferred to Waldheim in Saxony in a collective transport . On April 8, 1940, he was gassed as a victim of euthanasia and for petty offenses.

source

NS Documentation Center - Stumbling Blocks | Memorials for the victims of National Socialism (district list Humboldt / Gremberg)

Individual evidence

↑ Competence Center Self-Determined Living (KSL): Stumbling Stone Laying - Jakob Esper ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 15, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ksl-nrw.de

↑ Gabi Schmitt and Heike Zbick: “… not having to do any work. Relocated to another institution ”. 'Euthanasia' in Cologne using the example of the graves of honor in Cologne's Westfriedhof. 1st edition. Project group 'Euthanasia' EL-DE-Haus Cologne, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-932248-10-4 , p. 19 u. 20 .

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine in the Cologne district of Humboldt / Gremberg - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Gunter Demnig's website for the Stolperstein project

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

[1] Competence Center Self-Determined Living (KSL): Stumbling Stone Laying - Jakob Esper ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 15, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ksl-nrw.de

[2] Gabi Schmitt and Heike Zbick: “… not having to do any work. Relocated to another institution ”. 'Euthanasia' in Cologne using the example of the graves of honor in Cologne's Westfriedhof. 1st edition. Project group 'Euthanasia' EL-DE-Haus Cologne, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-932248-10-4 , p. 19 u. 20 .