List of stumbling blocks in the Cologne district of Riehl

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 Riehl district of Cologne leads the artist Gunter Demnig laid stumbling blocks in the Cologne district Riehl 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 Sophie Boll , born Mier ( born 1866) suicide Before deportation	Mathias-Schleiden-Str. 11 ( location )	The stumbling stone is reminiscent of Sophie Boll (née Meyer) , born on July 18, 1866 in Fürth . Sophie Meyer was born in 1866 as the daughter of Elkan Meyer and his wife Johanne (née Zederholz) . She married Joseph Boll and worked as a self-employed clerk. A few days before her announced deportation to the Theresienstadt ghetto , she committed suicide on January 23, 1943.
	Here lived Jenny Lazarus , born Wolff ( born 1878) Deported in 1941 Łódź ???	Johannes-Müller-Str. 42 ( location )	The stumbling block is reminiscent of Jenny (Jettchen) Lazarus (née Wolff) , born on August 1, 1878 in Gelsenkirchen . Jenny Wolff was born on August 1st, 1878 as the daughter of a Jewish businessman in Gelsenkirchen. After marrying the Cologne merchant Moritz Lazarus, they settled in Cologne. From 1905, Jenny Wolff independently ran a women's clothing store at the Hohenzollernring, which she continued to run until 1938 after the death of her husband Moritz Lazarus. For the last few years, Jenny Lazarus has lived in her brother Kurt Wolff's house (see below). Jenny Lazarus and her brother Kurt were deported to the Litzmannstadt ghetto on October 22, 1941 on the 8th Cologne transport . Here their track is lost.
	Here lived Fanny Marx ( born 1905) Deported in 1941 Riga Declared dead	Am Botanical Garden 32 ( location )	The Stolperstein laid in January 2001 reminds of Fanny Marx , born on September 15, 1905 in Cologne-Deutz . Fanny Marx was the daughter of Max and Sara Marx (née Löwenbach) . The domestic worker Fanny Marx was deported to the Riga ghetto on December 7, 1941 . On October 1, 1944, she was deported to the Stutthof concentration camp . Here their track is lost. The stumbling block that was laid in January 2001 was removed by strangers, and in September 2001 Gunter Demnig relocated it.
	Here lived Hanna Ida Meyer ( born in 1904) Deported in 1941 Murdered in Riga	Stammheimer Str. 13 ( location )	The Stolperstein laid on September 10, 2018 commemorates Hanna Ida Meyer , born on July 14, 1904. Hanna Ida Meyer was born in Cologne as the youngest child of the businessman Siegfried Meyer and his wife Thekla (née Bender) . The unmarried Hanna Meyer was deported on December 7, 1941 from the “ ghetto house ” Sedanstrasse 29, together with her sister and mother, to the Riga ghetto . Here their track is lost. The stumbling block for Hanna Ida Meyer was originally laid in front of the “ghetto house” Sedanstraße 29 (Cologne-Neustadt-Nord) in 2001 and 2007, both stumbling blocks were broken off by strangers shortly after the laying and replaced by a pavement slab. On September 10, 2018, a new stumbling block was laid in front of the former residential building at Stammheimer Straße 13.
	This is where Dr. Karl Emil Meyer ( born 1900) Banned from working in 1933 Escape in 1939 England	Stammheimer Str. 13 ( location )	The Stolperstein, which was laid on September 10, 2018, commemorates Dr. Karl Emil Meyer , born on May 21, 1900 in Cologne. Karl Emil Meyer was born in 1900 as the eldest child of the Jewish businessman Siegfried Meyer and his wife Thekla in Cologne. After graduating from the Städtisches Realgymnasium zu Cöln-Nippes , he began to study law at the universities of Bonn , Jena and Cologne . After his doctorate on July 25, 1924 at the University of Bonn, he took up a position as assistant judge at the Bonn Regional Court . He converted to the Catholic faith in the mid-1920s . In 1932 he was promoted to the district judge . In April 1933 he was given leave of absence due to the provisions of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service and was retired on November 1, 1933. He then continued to work as a journalist and as a consultant for patent law in industry. After a chain of repression , he emigrated to London with his wife and son in 1939 . After the end of the Second World War he returned to Germany and from 1949 worked as a district court director in Cologne. In July 1951 he was appointed to the Claims Tribunal in Herford . From March 21, 1952 until his retirement on October 31, 1964, Karl Emil Meyer was a federal judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe . Karl Emil Meyer died in Karlsruhe on August 5, 1957.
	Here lived Klara Johanna Meyer ( born in 1903) Deported in 1941 Riga 1944 Stutthof Murdered	Stammheimer Str. 13 ( location )	The Stolperstein, which was laid on September 10, 2018, commemorates Klara Johana Meyer , born on May 10, 1903 in Cologne. Klara (Claire) Johanna Meyer was born in Cologne as the second child of the businessman Siegfried Meyer and his wife Thekla (née Bender) . The unmarried Klara Meyer was deported on December 7, 1941 from the “ ghetto house ” Sedanstrasse 29, together with her sister and mother, to the Riga ghetto . On August 9, 1944, she died in the Stutthof concentration camp . The stumbling block for Klara Johanna Meyer was originally laid in front of the “ghetto house” Sedanstraße 29 (Cologne-Neustadt-Nord) in 2001 and 2007, both stumbling blocks were broken out by strangers shortly after the laying and replaced by a pavement slab. On September 10, 2018, a new stumbling block was laid in front of the former residential building at Stammheimer Straße 13.
	Here lived Thekla Meyer , born Bender ( born 1876) Deported in 1941 Murdered in Riga	Stammheimer Str. 13 ( location )	The Stolperstein, which was laid on September 10, 2018, reminds of Thekla Meyer (née Bender) , born on August 13, 1876 in Trier . Thekla Bender was born in Trier in 1876 ​​as the daughter of the Jewish cloth merchant Bernhard Bender and his wife Clara (née Felsenstein) . Thekla Bender married the businessman Siegfried Meyer. The couple settled in Cologne. The couple's three children were born here: Karl (born 1900), Klara (born 1903) and Hanna (born 1904). The Meyer family belonged to the integrated, German-liberal Judaism of Cologne and the household was frequented by numerous artists and writers, among others. a. Friedrich Wolf , the nephew of her husband Siegfried. Siegfried Meyer died in Cologne on June 22, 1938. Shortly before Thekla Meyer's deportation to the Riga Ghetto on December 7, 1941 , she and her daughters had to move to the “ghetto house” at Sedanstrasse 29. Thekla Meyer sent another message from Riga to Cologne, which was forwarded to the Red Cross. Thekla Meyer's trace is lost in the Riga ghetto. The stumbling block for Thekla Meyer was originally laid in front of the “ ghetto house ” Sedanstraße 29 (Cologne-Neustadt-Nord) in 2001 and 2007 , both stumbling blocks were broken off by strangers shortly after the laying and replaced by a pavement slab. On September 10, 2018, a new stumbling block was laid in front of the former residential building at Stammheimer Straße 13.
	Here lived Egon Schier ( year unknown) Shot dead February 25, 1945 For refusing to take the oath on Adolf Hitler	Naumannstrasse 4 ( location )	The stumbling block is reminiscent of Egon Schier , born on May 25, 1925 in Cologne. After completing his school education, Egon Schier, who came from an anti-fascist family, began training as a precision mechanic. Before completing his training, he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service on April 15, 1943 . After he had carried out anti-fascist education and was betrayed by the Reich Labor Service, the Charlottenburg Army Court sentenced him to three years in prison. He was transferred to the Wehrmacht prisoner camp for political prisoners in Bernau. Here he was shot at the camp's shooting range on February 25, 1945.
	This is where Dr. Kurt Wolff ( born 1879) Deported in 1941 Łódź Declared dead	Johannes-Müller-Str. 42 ( location )	The stumbling block reminds of Dr. Kurt Wolff , born on November 5, 1879 in Gelsenkirchen . Kurt Wolff was born in Gelsenkirchen in 1879 to Jewish parents. After graduating from school, he began studying law . On December 23, 1902 , he received his doctorate in Leipzig , and on January 10, 1908, he passed the Grand State Examination . He initially worked as an assistant judge at the Cologne regional court . On July 2, 1909, he married Erna Regina Simon. The couple had two children, the twins Horst and Günther (born 1911) . From August 3, 1914 to April 4, 1919 he was drafted into military service. From June 1918 to April 1919 he worked in the Bavarian War Ministry . He was awarded the Iron Cross II and the Bavarian Military Merit Order with Swords. From April 1, 1920 he worked as a local court advisor at the Cologne regional court. He had to refuse his transfer to the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court in 1925 because after the death of his wife he had to take care of the education of his sons. On January 26, 1926, he was appointed higher regional judge in Cologne. On December 31, 1932, the President of the Higher Regional Court of Cologne proposed that he be a Reich judge . During the storming of the courthouse on Reichenspergerplatz, Kurt Wolff was beaten and humiliated together with other Jewish lawyers and taken to the police headquarters in a garbage truck. Wolff then asked for a leave of absence. Due to his participation in the First World War , Wolff was able to resume his service at the Higher Regional Court on July 21, 1933. In July 1934 he was reassigned to the Regional Court of Cologne, on October 1, 1935, “on leave” until further notice, and on November 14, 1935, retired. 1938 was a member of the emergency board of the Cologne synagogue community. On May 10, 1941, he applied to the President of the Higher Regional Court for permission to leave the United States, which the Reich Minister of Justice approved on June 30, 1941. The exit failed. Kurt Wolff was deported to the Litzmannstadt ghetto on October 22, 1941 on the 8th Cologne Transport (Hohensteiner Str. 39/5). In August 1944 he was deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp , where he was murdered. Wolff was a member of the German State Party , the Rhenish Prussian Judges Association, the Landwehr Officers Association and the Kyffhäuserbund .

source

• NS Documentation Center - Stumbling Blocks | Memorials for the victims of National Socialism (district list Riehl)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Yad Vashem: Sophie Boll memorial sheet with photography. Retrieved October 21, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Federal Archives: Memorial sheet for Sophie Boll. Retrieved October 21, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Dieter Corbach: 6:00 a.m. from Cologne-Deutz exhibition center: Deportations 1938-1945 . Scriba, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-921232-46-5 , p. 308 .
4. ↑ Federal Archives: Memorial Journal Jenny Lazarus. Retrieved October 21, 2018 . 
5. ^ Federal Archives: Fanny Marx memorial sheet. Retrieved October 21, 2018 . 
6. ^ Yad Vashem: Fanny Marx memorial sheet. Retrieved October 21, 2018 . 
7. ↑ NS Documentation Center Cologne | Fanny Marx. Retrieved May 29, 2018 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Wolfgang Scheffler, Diana Schulle, Diana, Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, German Riga Committee, Foundation New Synagogue Berlin-Centrum Judaicum: Book of Remembrance: the German, Austrian and Czechoslovak Jews deported to the Baltic States . KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-11-095624-1 , p. 643 .
9. ↑ Federal Archives: Memorial sheet for Hanna Ida Meyer. Retrieved October 21, 2018 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b c} rundschau-online.de (from September 10, 201): "Ghettohaus": stolen stumbling blocks will not be replaced , accessed on October 21, 2018
11. ^ Cologne Bar Association: ... because he is not of Aryan descent: Jewish lawyers in Cologne during the Nazi era . Ed .: Klaus Luig. O. Schmidt, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-504-01012-6 , pp. 294 ff .
12. ↑ Simone Ladwig-Winters, Simone, Federal Bar Association : Lawyer Without Law: Fate of Jewish Lawyers in Germany after 1933 . Be.bra, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89809-074-2 , pp. 280 .
13. ↑ Federal Archives: memorial sheet Klara Johanna Meyer. Retrieved October 21, 2018 . 
14. ^ Lew Hohmann: Friedrich Wolf: Pictures of a German biography . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-362-00271-4 , p. 20 .
15. ↑ Federal Archives: Memorial sheet for Thekla Meyer. Retrieved October 21, 2018 . 
16. ↑ Hanne Hiob: Fight the human right: Life pictures and last letters of anti-fascist resistance fighters . 1st edition. Neuer Weg, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-88021-180-9 , p. 486 .
17. ↑ Dieter Corbach: 6:00 a.m. from Cologne-Deutz exhibition center: Deportations 1938-1945 . In: Traces of Jewish Activity . tape 6 . Scriba, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-921232-46-5 , p. 334 .
18. ↑ Federal Archives: Memorial Journal Kurt Wolff. Retrieved October 21, 2018 . 
19. ↑ NS Documentation Center Cologne | Kurt Wolff. Retrieved October 21, 2018 . 
20. ↑ Cologne Bar Association: ..because he is not of Aryan descent: Jewish lawyers in Cologne during the Nazi era . Ed .: Klaus Luig. O. Schmidt, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-504-01012-6 , pp. 373-376 .

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in the Cologne district of Riehl  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Gunter Demnig's website for the Stolperstein project

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