List of stumbling blocks in Berlin-Mariendorf

The list of stumbling blocks in Berlin-Mariendorf contains the stumbling blocks in the Berlin district of Mariendorf in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district , which remind us of the fate of the people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide under National Socialism. The table covers a total of six stumbling blocks and can be partially sorted; the basic sorting is done alphabetically according to the family name.

image	Surname	Location	Laying date	Life
	Eva-Maria book	Hochfeilerweg 23a	March 7, 2009	Eva-Maria Buch was born on January 31, 1921 in Berlin and last lived in Mariendorf since 1935 at Hochfeilerweg 23a. In 1941 she got to know the KPD functionary Wilhelm Guddorf through her work in an antiquarian bookshop and thus got in touch with a resistance group of the Red Orchestra around Harro Schulze-Boysen and Arvid Harnack . She also worked as a language teacher at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitätactive in Berlin and translated articles in the illegal newspaper “Die Innere Front” intended for foreign forced laborers, which she helped to distribute. After the group was discovered by the Gestapo, Eva-Maria Buch was arrested on October 11, 1942. The main hearing before the 2nd Senate of the Reich Court Martial against Eva-Maria Buch and many other members of the resistance group took place from February 1st to 3rd, 1943. The charge was “preparing a treasonable enterprise and favoring the enemy”, and was sentenced to death on February 3, 1943 (like almost all other members of her resistance group). A pardon request for her parents was refused by Adolf Hitler personally on July 21, 1943; on August 5, 1943, at the age of 22, she was guillotined in Plötzensee prison.
	Gerti Davidsohn	Koenigstrasse 29	March 7, 2009	Gerti Davidsohn was born as Gerti Tann on June 7, 1885 in Berlin-Mitte and had at least two sisters and a brother. On October 3, 1925, he married Richard Davidsohn and has lived in Mariendorf since 1929. She and her husband ran a clothing store on the ground floor of their house, which was then destroyed in the Second World War . Since the front with two shop windows and the entrance to Chausseestrasse (after 1949 Mariendorfer Damm ), the address was Chausseestrasse 32. Around 1934 the family was forced to move to a smaller apartment at Kurfürstenstrasse 65. On January 19, 1942, Gerti Davidsohn was deported with her husband Richard and 577 other Jews from Berlin on the 9th Eastern Transport to the Riga Ghetto and later probably murdered in the Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp . Because the exact date of her murder could not be determined, she was officially declared dead on May 8, 1945. Her brother Alfred was deported to the Groß-Rosen concentration camp on March 30, 1942 , and murdered there on June 7, 1942. The couple had three sons: Martin Davidsohn, born on November 10, 1903, became a bank clerk; he died in a railway accident in 1929. Helmut Davidsohn was born in 1907. He fled from the Gestapo via London to South Africa , where he died of exhaustion on January 23, 1944. The third son Egon was born on September 29, 1910, and he was the only family member to survive. He had also fled to South Africa in 1936 and lived there in Port Elizabeth . Egon had filed a lawsuit for redress for his parents in 1965 , which was ended in March 1966 with a settlement by paying DM 1,200 .
	Richard Davidsohn	Koenigstrasse 29	March 7, 2009	Richard Davidsohn was born on March 6, 1873 in Preussisch Stargard . He had been married to Gerti Davidsohn since October 4, 1925 and moved with her to Mariendorf at Königstrasse 29 in 1929. Initially, he worked as a trained clothing merchant in a clothing store and started his own business by taking over a shop in Zehlendorf. Afterwards he ran a clothing store together with his wife Gerti at Chausseestrasse 32 (corner of Königstrasse 29) in the same house in which the family lived. In the “Jewish address book for Greater Berlin” from 1929/30 there is the entry “Richard Davidsohn, businessman”. Business was able to continue even after the boycott of the Jews in 1933. In spite of the restriction of employment due to the Nuremberg Laws , it existed according to available information until 1940 and then had to be given up. According to the reparation file, he was forced to pay a Jewish property tax of 2,000 Reichsmarks . In addition to restricting his employment, Richard Davidsohn had to wear the Jewish star since September 19, 1941 . On January 19, 1942, Richard Davidsohn was deported with his wife Gerti and 577 other Jews from Berlin on the 9th Eastern Transport to the Riga Ghetto and probably later murdered in the Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp . Because the exact date of his murder could not be determined, he was officially declared dead on May 8, 1945.
	Erich Gentsch	Äneasstrasse 8	Nov 17, 2008	Erich Gentsch was born on August 1, 1893 in Altenburg . He was a communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Joined the SPD in 1911 and the KPD in 1918 . 1920 Chairman of the Works Council at Daimler AG in Stuttgart. 1925 to 1927 editor of the Rote Fahne . Sentenced to seven months in prison in 1925 for insulting the government. In 1930 elected first secretary and district committee leader of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO) in Berlin-Brandenburg and in mid-January 1933 as chairman of the Unified Association of Metalworkers in Berlin (EVMB). After two brief arrests in early 1933, he was arrested again in April after being elected city councilor in Berlin in April. Imprisoned in Berlin-Spandau prison and in Sonnenburg concentration camp until September 1933 . 1934 emigration to the Saar area and participation in the voting campaign against annexation to the German Reich. In 1935 he headed the frontier work of the KPD from Prague and then took over the section management of the KPD in Amsterdam from April 1936 to 1939 . After the outbreak of war, he continued the illegal work from Amsterdam. On April 23, 1943, Erich Gentsch and his wife were arrested by the Gestapo , he himself was sentenced to death in Nuremberg on June 23, 1944 and beheaded on the scaffold in Stuttgart on August 24, 1944 . Gentsch's wife Erna died on February 5, 1945 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp .
	Günther Keil	Richterstrasse 48	March 7, 2009	Günther Keil was born on April 5, 1909 in Berlin-Kreuzberg . The resistance fighter against the Nazi regime was a trained salesman, member of the Jungbanner since 1925 , of the SPD in 1928 and of the SAPD after 1931 . For the SAPD he was local chairman in Tempelhof until the ban in 1933 . After that he worked illegally and headed the Schutzbund of the SAPD and was also responsible for courier services between Berlin and Czechoslovakia , from where the resistance was organized. After discovery by the Gestapo , he was arrested in November 1933 and severely mistreated in a Charlottenburg SA prison. On December 1, 1933, he was taken to the Columbia-Haus concentration camp , where he continued to be severely tortured for a year. Afterwards he was transferred to the Oranienburg concentration camp and also suffered severe abuse. Trial of him and other SAPD members at the People's Court from November 26th to December 1st, 1934; he was sentenced to one year and nine months in prison. After his discharge in 1936 he was a sick man and died on August 18, 1937 in the tuberculosis hospital Waldhaus Charlottenburg in Sommerfeld as a result of torture. He was buried in the Mariendorf cemetery on Friedenstrasse.
	Kurt Rühlmann	Dirschelweg 16	Nov 17, 2008	Kurt Rühlmann was born on April 26, 1903 in Beelitz . He was a technical employee, a member of the German Metal Workers' Association , the International Workers Aid and, since 1928, in the KPD (later also as a functionary). As a resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, he had been working for Askania Werke AG in Berlin-Weißensee from 1936 , as a member of the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization, took part in consultations on resistance work against armaments production in the Askania factories and distributed pamphlets. He was arrested on July 28, 1944, tried before the People's Court on November 30, 1944 , and sentenced to death on January 8, 1945. His execution took place in early 1945 in the Brandenburg prison .

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in Berlin-Mariendorf  - Collection of images

• Stumbling blocks in the district. ( Memento from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Tempelhof-Schöneberg district office
• Sponsorship of the Rudolf Hildebrand Primary School for Stolperstein by Günther Keil with pictures of the laying

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kurfürstenstrasse 65 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1935, part, p. 394.
2. ↑ Transport list No. 202 Date of departure: January 19, 1942, destination of deportation: Riga
3. ^ Commemorative book victims of the persecution of Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933-1945 Federal Archives, as of January 27, 2017
4. ^ Commemorative book victims of the persecution of Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933-1945 Federal Archives, as of January 27, 2017
5. ↑ Brochure Stumbling Stones on the B 96. (PDF; 702 kB) Stumbling Stones on the B 96 - Memorial in Berlin Tempelhof-Schöneberg e. V., p. 7 , accessed on February 1, 2013 . 
6. ↑ File number 51 WGA 698/65 WGA database
7. ↑ Transport list No. 201 Date of departure: 19.01.42, destination of deportation: Riga
8. ^ Commemorative book victims of the persecution of Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933-1945 Federal Archives, as of January 27, 2017
9. ↑ Brochure Stumbling Stones on the B 96. (PDF; 702 kB) Stumbling Stones on the B 96 - Memorial in Berlin Tempelhof-Schöneberg e. V., p. 8 , accessed on February 1, 2013 . 
10. ↑ Members' newsletter 60. (PDF; 493 kB) Active Museum Fascism and Resistance in Berlin e. V., January 2009, p. 9 , accessed on February 1, 2013 . 
11. ↑ Brochure Stumbling Stones on the B 96. (PDF; 702 kB) Stumbling Stones on the B 96 - Memorial in Berlin Tempelhof-Schöneberg e. V., pp. 5–6 , accessed on February 1, 2013 . 

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