List of stumbling blocks in the Müngersdorf district of Cologne

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The list of the stumbling blocks in the Cologne district Muengersdorf results by artist Gunter Demnig laid stumbling blocks in the Cologne district of Müngersdorf 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.

Name and details of the inscription	address	Additional Information
Esther Düring , nee lived here . Herschaff ( born 1890) Escape Holland Deported Auschwitz Declared dead	Büsdorfer Str. 2 ( location )	The stumbling block is reminiscent of Esther Düring (née Herschaff) , born on August 9, 1890 in Paris . Esther Düring was the wife of the factory owner Leonhard Düring. The couple had two children. When the living conditions for Jewish citizens deteriorated after the National Socialists came to power , the family fled to Holland and initially lived with another Jewish family in Noorder Amstellaan 147 III in Amsterdam. The family's property was administered, confiscated and later sold in the National Socialist Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co. Sarphatistraat robbery bank. After the occupation of the Netherlands by the German Wehrmacht, Esther Düring was arrested and taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . On January 27, 1944, she was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on Transport XXIV / 3 (no. 42) and from there on October 28, 1944 on Transport Ev (no. 284) to Auschwitz , where she is lost. Another stumbling block was laid for Esther Düring at Nietzschestraße 6 (Lindenthal) .
Here lived Leonhard Düring ( born in 1898) Deported Auschwitz Declared dead	Büsdorfer Str. 2 ( location )	The stumbling block is reminiscent of Leonhard Düring , born on July 8, 1889 in Cologne Leonhard Düring was a co-owner of the company Adolf & Leonhard Düring , which manufactured soldering, heating and cooking devices. He was with Esther Düring, geb. Herschaff married. The couple had two children. When the living conditions for Jewish citizens deteriorated after the National Socialists came to power , the family fled to Holland and initially lived with another Jewish family in Noorder Amstellaan 147 III in Amsterdam. The family's property was administered, confiscated and later sold in the National Socialist Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co. Sarphatistraat robbery bank. After the occupation of the Netherlands by the German Wehrmacht, Leonhard Düring was arrested and deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . On January 27, 1944, he was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on Transport XXIV / 3 (no. 41) and from there on September 28, 1944 on Transport Ek (no. 1507) to Auschwitz , where he was on September 30th Was murdered in 1944. The family's two children survived the Holocaust. Another stumbling block was laid for Leonhard Düring at Nietzschestrasse 6 (Lindenthal) .
Here lived Fritz Stoffels ( born in 1898) Imprisonment 1939–42 and 1943 Brandenburg prison Executed August 14, 1944 guillotine	Belvederestr. 147 ( location )	The Stolperstein, which was laid on January 20, 2007, commemorates Friedrich (Fritz) Stoffels , born on August 7, 1898 in Hamborn . Fritz Stoffels was a full-time preacher (colporteur) until the Bible Students' faith community (since 1931: Jehovah's Witnesses ) was banned in June 1933. Even after the ban on the religious community, Fritz Stoffels and his wife Klara continued to be active in missionary work in the underground and organized the printing and distribution of religious writings and the watchtower . Friedrich Stoffels in 1939 in Cologne for illegal distribution of the Watchtower arrested and to three years ' imprisonment convicted. After his release, the Stoffels went to Oberhausen and joined the underground group of Jehovah's Witnesses led by Auguste Hetkamp and Julius Engelhard . In April 1943, Gruppe was arrested by the Gestapo . Fritz and Klara Stoffels were arrested along with the other Jehovah's Witnesses in Berlin and indicted in the 6th Senate of the People's Court in 1944 . On June 2, 1944, Fritz Stoffels, his wife and the co-defendants of the Jehovah's Witnesses group were sentenced to death by the People's Court for " undermining military strength " and " favoring the enemy ". Fritz Stoffels was on 14 August 1944 in the place of execution Brandenburg-Gorden by the guillotine executed.
Here lived Klara Stoffels , born Wichers ( born 1904) Arrested in 1943 Berlin-Plötzensee Executed August 11, 1944 guillotine	Belvederestr. 147 ( location )	The Stolperstein, which was laid on January 20, 2007, commemorates Klara Stoffels (née Wiechert) , born on December 7, 1904. Klara Stoffels became involved with her husband Fritz before the seizure of power by the Nazis in the Jehovah's Witnesses . The Stoffels lived on Simrockstrasse in Ehrenfeld until 1935. After Fritz Stoffels was no longer allowed to work due to his belief , the family moved to the station building in Müngersdorf in 1935. The distribution of the banned magazine Watchtower and the distribution of leaflets were both organized underground. In the spring of 1943, Klara Stoffels was arrested in the course of a large wave of arrests by Jehovah's Witnesses that took place in the Rhineland and Ruhr area. She was taken to the Barnimstrasse women's prison in Berlin and sentenced to death on June 6, 1944 by the 6th Senate of the People's Court for “undermining military strength” and “treasonous favoring the enemy”. The death sentence was carried out using the guillotine on August 11, 1944 in the Berlin-Plötzensee execution site.