List of stumbling blocks in the Lindau district (Lake Constance)

The two stumbling blocks of Lindau , in front of Holdereggen Castle , are dedicated to Rosina Gutensohn and Erich Seisser

The list of stumbling blocks in the Lindau district (Lake Constance) includes those stumbling blocks that were laid by the German artist Gunter Demnig in the Swabian district of Lindau (Lake Constance) . They are dedicated to the victims of National Socialism , all those who were harassed, deported, murdered, emigrated or driven to suicide by the Nazi regime.

Demnig lays a separate stone for each victim, usually in front of the last place of residence they chose.

Lindau (Lake Constance)

→ Main article : History of the Jews in Lindau (Lake Constance)

Settlements of Jews in the imperial city of Lindau have been documented since 1241. They lived from lending and trading. A small medieval community was established, but it only existed until July 1430, when 18 Lindau Jews were publicly burned as a result of allegations of ritual murder . For several centuries, Jews were forbidden to settle in the city and district. Jewish traders were not even allowed to sleep inside the city walls. They could only sell their goods in the market if they had previously paid customs duties. The first permanent settlement of a Jewish family in Lindau did not take place until 1813. Even after that, only a few Jews came to the city. In modern times, due to the very low number of Jews in Lindau, it was no longer possible to establish a synagogue community. Under the title Outrage over Judaism in Lindau too , a newspaper wrote in November 1938 on the occasion of the November pogroms that "house searches had taken place among the six Jewish households in Lindau". Of the few Jews who were still in Lindau at the time, some were still able to flee. At least eight fell victim to the Shoah . At the present time, a small number of Jews live in the city, mostly emigrants from the former Soviet Union. You are responsible for the synagogue community of Konstanz Kdö.R. For their protection, the exact number is not disclosed.

No stumbling blocks have been laid for the Lindau Jews and the Eastern European forced laborers who died in the Friedrichshafen and Saulgau camps. (As of May 2020) A memorial plaque in St. Peter's Church commemorates the murdered Jews from Lindau . There is a plaque at the Lindau cemetery for the murdered slave laborers. The two Stolpersteine, laid in 2010, are dedicated to a woman with mental illness and a man of resistance.

Stumbling block	inscription	Location	Name, life
	ROSINA GUTENSOHN JG WORKED HERE . 1911 DISTRIBUTED DEC. 1943 'HEALANSTALT' KAUFBEUREN MURDERED 10.1.1944	Holdereggenstraße 23 (in front of Holdereggen Castle)	Rosina Gutensohn was a German maid. She was born on April 20, 1911 as one of four children of the Gutensohn farming family and grew up in Unterreitnau . After attending elementary school in Unterreitnau, she worked on her parents' farm and later as a maid for relatives in St. Gallen . Because of an illness, she was operated on on the thyroid gland in the local cantonal hospital in September 1933 . Then she fell into melancholy . In June 1934 Gutensohn moved back to live with her parents. After attempting suicide, she first came to St. Priminisberg in Pfäfers on cure and then received treatment from Valentin Faltlhauser in the Kaufbeuren-Irsee sanatorium . After therapy, she worked - in addition to working on her parents 'farm - as a maid and cook in the girls' high school in Lindau . On October 29, 1943, she was returned to the Kaufbeuren sanatorium. The sanatorium was now part of the Nazi euthanasia program , Aktion T4 . Rosina Gutensohn was employed in the local braiding shop, had to undergo electroshock treatments and was put on starvation food . Rosina Gutensohn died of starvation on January 10, 1944 at the age of 33.
	ERICH SEISSER JG LIVED HERE . 1899 ARRESTED 22/01/1944 'ARMY FORCE DECLARATION' BRANDENBURG PROVIDED HOME EXECUTED 22/01/1945	Holdereggenstraße 23 (in front of Holdereggen Castle)	Erich Seisser was born in Munich on June 26, 1899 . He was the son of the pharmacist, entrepreneur and councilor Ludwig Seisser (1866-1936) and his wife Charlotte Therese Clara, née Brougier (born on November 7, 1872 in Stuttgart ). He had an older brother, Adolf Seisser (1898–1979). The maternal grandfather was Adolph Brougier (1844–1934). Erich Seisser, like his father and grandfather, also became an entrepreneur. Before that, he was private secretary to the entrepreneur Hermann Aust (1853–1943) for a while. He later became a member of the supervisory board of Kathreiner AG, a company that for many years had been shaped by his grandfather. The most important part of the company was the import of coffee beans. He was arrested by the Nazi regime on January 22, 1944 and executed exactly one year later to the day, on January 22, 1945, in the Brandenburg prison. The indictment was of undermining military strength and sedition and was based on denunciation. Erich Seisser was sentenced to death. At the crypt of the Brougier-Seisser family in Lindau, a plaque commemorates Erich Seisser. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of his death, an obituary notice appeared in the Süddeutsche Zeitung with the following text: "As a victim of the time of error, he had to give up his life."

Lindenberg in the Allgäu

The NSDAP came to power in Lindenberg im Allgäu on August 4, 1933. The four city councilors of the Bavarian People's Party had resigned their offices after they had been taken into protective custody, and the two SPD city ​​councilors had been eliminated by the party ban. The now purely National Socialist city council elected elementary school teacher Hans Vogel as 1st mayor. In May 1936 a building was named after him, and in 1937 a street and a square were also renamed after him. There were also several victims of the Nazi regime in Lindenberg. On September 4, 1936 - after denunciations - the Social Democrat Josef Bentele was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp , where he spent 15 months in a concentration camp without trial. On November 13, 1939 Franziska Weber, a declared Nazi opponent, his wife was a bank manager, due to the so-called treachery law in the concentration camp deported from where she was released only on 10 December 1941st On January 12, 1944, the only Jew in town, Jakob Plaut, was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp at the age of 77. On June 6, 1944, Auguste Zwiesler, who came from Lindenberg, was murdered in Auschwitz . On July 22, 1944, two days after the assassination attempt on Hitler, the former Reich Ministers Otto Geßler and Anton Fehr were arrested and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Fehr was released after two months, Geßler as “the Führer’s personal prisoner” only on February 24, 1945. He was made an honorary citizen of Nazi mayor Vogel on March 31, 1945 and shot on the run on May 1, 1945. his honorary citizenship was withdrawn again in 1946. Jakob Plaut returned to Lindenberg after his liberation from Theresienstadt.

Stumbling block	inscription	Location	Name, life
The stone has been removed. (As of May 2020)	JAKOB PLAUT JG LIVED HERE . DEPORTED IN 1867 1944 THERESIENSTADT SURVIVED	Hauptstrasse 24 (in front of the fire brigade)	Jakob Plaut was born in Mackenzell , East Hesse, in 1867 . In 1920 he came from Strasbourg to Lindenberg and worked as a hat seller for the Ottmar Reich company until his retirement. He lived on the first floor of Hauptstrasse 24 and belonged to the Protestant community. Leni Schallweg, who was an apprentice in the hat shop in the 1930s, later described him as follows: "He was a lovable person who liked young people and who didn't twist anyone's hair". On January 11, 1944, Plaut received a request from the Gestapo to be ready for transport the next day. How his Jewish ancestry became known is unclear. On January 12, 1944, he was brought to Munich by train by the then city police officer, Rollenmüller. He was then deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp . He was able to survive the concentration camp imprisonment, the hunger, the poor hygiene, although he was already 77 years old at the time of his admission. In his memoirs, however, he describes the ongoing deportations from Theresienstadt to the East: "At 12 o'clock at night, notes were distributed in the rooms that the people concerned had to come the next morning with a suitcase or rucksack. What happened in the way of farewell scenes I don't want to mention anything about that, it was heartbreaking in one word. " The Red Army reached Theresienstadt on May 8, 1945 . Jakob Plaut returned to his hometown. He died in Augsburg in 1955. The laying of the stone was initiated by Albert Wucher, who wanted to give the Jewish fellow citizen a lasting memory. Cultural advisor Ursula Schickle supported the request and spoke during the laying ceremony.

Laying data

The stumbling blocks in the Lindau district were laid by Gunter Demnig on the following days:

• September 13, 2006: Lindenberg
• July 15, 2010: Lindau

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in Lindau (Bodensee)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Chronicle of the laying of the stumbling blocks on the website of Gunter Demnig's project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area: Lindau / Bodensee (Schwaben / Bavaria) , accessed on May 21, 2020
2. ↑ Rosina Gutensohn died a forced starvation. The Nazi fascism in the Lindau district 1919-1945 , p. 108f
3. ↑ International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice: Crime, History & Societies , J. 2000, B. 4, N. 2, Drop, Genève-Paris, therein: Robert Gellately: Crime, Identity and Power, Stories of police imposters in Nazi Germany, pp. 5-18
4. ^ SZ (Munich): Obituary notice Erich Seisser , January 22, 2015
5. ↑ Geschichts- und Museumsverein Lindenberg eV: Our City , accessed on May 22, 2020
6. ^ Geschichts- und Museumsverein Lindenberg eV: Nazi period 1933 - 1945, local history notes , April 1, 2016
7. ↑ Das Allgäu online: A stone against forgetting , September 14, 2006